ALL IN THE GAME: Crime Strategy

After playing through this a couple of times, I feel that this game has a lot of potential, and I really hope for it's success because as far as gang management multiplayer goes, it is pretty much nonexistent for the most part, unless you go out of your way to host a game such as Gangsters: Organized Crime through a 3rd party service like Hamachi, or host a LAN party if you're fortunate to have the time and willing participants with free schedules (not likely in my life, probably not yours either). Things I think could be improved on could be a better explanation of how to speed up game play animations at the end of turns (all you have to do is click, but I did not see this explanation in the tutorial, however I may have just overlooked it), a few more maps, and also either a difficulty level or behavior preference for enemy AI, and the ability to add teams would be nice as well. I was also hoping for a city randomization, which was the case in Gangsters. It would add more replayability to the game for sure and would be a very welcome addition to what this game has to offer. There is no campaign sadly, however it could always be added in the future. It would also be nice to just see more victory options too, like total domination of the map or elimination of every gang and it's members, rather than be limited to strictly majority territory or clean money victories only. The way the multiplayer is set up you can't just join a random game, you need an invite code/password, though this is forgivable at this stage due to this game only being released recently at the time of this review. If it were to get more popular, I would suggest looking into perhaps expanding the multiplayer options. I may have a slight bias towards gang management multiplayer, but this is simply because it barely exists, and I must admit I've always thought it would be a hard niche to full. That is why I'd really love to see this succeed and if you support this game I recommend joining it's discord to find other players. Taking into account everything else from a regular point of view I'd say for the price it is fair and it may need some polishing and a little support, but as long as it's not abandoned, I do feel it's community could grow along with the game itself. As of right now it is a smaller community, so don't expect multiplayer to be available at the drop of a hat, it IS available though. After all, it is in early access, let's see where it goes. I'm eager to see it's success, and I feel anyone else who may appreciate the crime strategy genre should at least take note of this. This is a step in the right direction. For 20 bucks why not? And on sale it'd be a steal. A nice addition to my collection of crime games, and a nice addition to this niche genre.