Empire of Vice : Chicago
Artifex Parvus · 2026 · Strategy, RPG, 4X, Turn-Based Strategy, Grand Strategy
PC
8 user reviews75% · 8
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About Empire of Vice : Chicago
Build your criminal empire during Prohibition.
Manage speakeasies, casinos, and territories, corrupt the powerful, and shape your destiny through hundreds of narrative choices.Chicago, 1925. The city thrives in the shadows. Prohibition has given birth to a new kind of empire—built not on law, but on bribes, bullets, and fear.In Empire of Vice: Chicago, you play as a gangster from one of several unique backgrounds: an ambitious street thug, an exiled hitman, or a fading mob boss. Where will your story end?This turn-based strategy and management game plunges you into an underground war where every decision shapes the fate of your criminal empire. Expand your influence by controlling neighborhoods, running speakeasies and casinos, and manipulating a web of smuggling, corruption, and betrayal. But beware—the city remembers, and every action has its price.
Manage speakeasies, casinos, and territories, corrupt the powerful, and shape your destiny through hundreds of narrative choices.Chicago, 1925. The city thrives in the shadows. Prohibition has given birth to a new kind of empire—built not on law, but on bribes, bullets, and fear.In Empire of Vice: Chicago, you play as a gangster from one of several unique backgrounds: an ambitious street thug, an exiled hitman, or a fading mob boss. Where will your story end?This turn-based strategy and management game plunges you into an underground war where every decision shapes the fate of your criminal empire. Expand your influence by controlling neighborhoods, running speakeasies and casinos, and manipulating a web of smuggling, corruption, and betrayal. But beware—the city remembers, and every action has its price.
A Life of Crime, Told Through Your Choices
Write your rise—or fall—through hundreds of branching narrative events that capture the decadence, violence, and moral tension of true gangster life.- Turn-Based Criminal Strategy
Plan your every move: takeovers, resource management, protection, vendettas… every choice matters. Think ahead—or pay the price. - Choose Your Gangster
Pick from multiple origin stories—rookie thug, fallen boss, fugitive assassin… each with their own strengths and burdens. - Manage Your Illegal Empire
Speakeasies, casinos, smuggling networks—develop and protect your growing organization. - Corruption & Influence
Bribe officials, manipulate the police, eliminate rivals through fear or cunning. - Vengeance, Conflict & Betrayal
Wage war, orchestrate hits, or turn enemies against one another in a ruthless battle for power. - Dynamic Narrative Events
Each playthrough brings unique, choice-driven situations that simulate the unpredictable life of a rising criminal. - A Living, Shifting City
Explore a stylized and corrupt version of Chicago where neighborhoods and alliances evolve based on your actions.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Early access and new release, so caveat that we'll see how responsive the dev is, but its an interesting idea currently. Play loop is decent and the setting is great. The idea of building your own little slice of chicago is appealing. Some cons: [list] [*]Once you get around turn 100 all other gang leaders are levelled too high and its not really possible to touch them [*]The cost of getting an unclaimed neighborhood is too - 50% building + x number of dice rolls with 20 men + 4 cars. [*]Police and health activity only impacts the player. You can spend time behind bars or injured, its not clear that the AI can [*]Alliances seem... not too useful? They seem to only effect your ability to get neighborhoods. [*]Your skills only impact events, not actual your actual actions, pickpocket/rob/assassinate etc. which to point 1, makes enemy bosses untouchable at higher levels [*]Weiss seems too strong, every game I see him in he floods and is completely dominate [*]Lots of forced intros/animations so for example loading screens are slow and animation to start a game are unavoidable [/list] Lotta of cons, but thumbs up for now assuming the dev balances and tweaks things. Will pop back t…12 found this helpful
Fun Game. Just bought it today. Any Prohibition Era Fan would enjoy this.6 found this helpful
Need Sandbox or a custom game mode and custom characters not a fan of the unlocking characters5 found this helpful
It's a really nice start but it becomes extremely limited very quickly - even when you get a good result you'll only get get $200 bucks at best - there is no place to steal barrels of alcohol - so you can't build an HQ, you want to make serious income but then even when you make your own spirits - you don't have any options to sell it and it goes off?? Sadly most of the time you're left to do petty crime on your own as most of the time you can't use your guys or get any chance to try assassinations or take over places as you need to take risks - die hard or die trying!! So sadly very very quickly it loses its fun and intrigue. Sadly it looks like another one of those games that you need to leave and come back to later but not at least for another year!!!!5 found this helpful
Fun for some time. Like Scarface's rise to power. (Before troubles)
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