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.

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.

Wishlist now and prepare to make your mark in a city where loyalty is bought, trust is rare, and your past will always catch up to you.