City Of Gangsters puts players in the big city with limited contacts but a huge gap in the market to be exploited - the market of illicit alcohol.

Start your crime syndicate from nothing, and grow it into a well-oiled money machine. Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Smuggle goods from out of town and bribe the police to look the other way. Grow a powerful crew and keep your rivals under your thumb. Eliminate competition and rule the city. But most importantly, keep the money flowing.

Behind many of the city’s facades, people are building makeshift distilleries, secret loading docks, nighttime speakeasies. Work your way into this network, and the world will be yours.

Kasedo Games and SomaSim have  announced the private beta program for upcoming mafia management sim, City of Gangsters.

Aspiring criminal entrepreneurs looking to make a quick buck in 1920s Prohibition USA can sign up for private beta access (until March 4th) and help shape the game before it’s release later this year.

Players are encouraged to be quick however, with only 100 positions available in this exclusive private beta program. 

Successful beta testers will be able to play through an early version of the game's campaign mode in which they will be able to make contacts, set up new legitimate fronts, extort local businesses and build up their illicit liquor empire from the ground up, all while fending off rival gangs and crooked cops. 

The latest in the series of Mafia Management videos shows off Operations & Assets. It is also available now to give players an insight into the latest features added to the game so far.

“As we enter the later stages of development, we’re looking for player feedback to fine tune the game,” said Matthew Viglione, co-founder of SomaSim. “We’re making a unique experience that allows players to focus on production and distribution in one of the most interesting eras in US history. We're going into a private beta to focus on this final tuning”.

“The community is already comparing City of Gangsters to historical and more recent games set in the prohibition era, and we're excited to share our take on the subject and setting,” continues Robert Zubek, co-founder of SomaSim. “City of Gangsters requires you to build a network of people who you trust, but who also trust you, and to plan your business around key relationships. Without knowing the right people, you won’t be able to make or offload any illegal alcohol to make money. The social relationship system is something new in this genre and we're interested to see how our players enjoy it.”

The year is 1920, the start of Prohibition in the USA. With congressional action, a huge segment of the national economy becomes illegal overnight: bars and saloons are ordered to close, distilleries and breweries go quiet, distributors shut down. But a new era is dawning: a gilded age for smugglers, black markets, illegal manufacture, and organized crime.

This is where you come in. You’re a new arrival in the city at the dawn of Prohibition, with ambitions of striking it big. Behind many of the city’s facades, people are building makeshift distilleries, secret loading docks, nighttime speakeasies. Work your way into this network, and the world will be yours.

But think beyond making a quick buck or two. You gotta be thinking ahead. You gotta be thinking bigger. Much bigger.

Key Features:

• Well-organized crime: Get started in the booze biz by hocking some homemade hooch. Start your own stills, and find raw materials to supply them. Learn new techniques to make expensive drinks, or smuggle imported booze to fuel your growing operation. 
• You gotta know a guy: On the black market, social currency matters as much as the greenback. With cops and feds sniffing around, trust is everything and personal introductions are worth their weight in gold. So work your connections to find profitable new friends, and get people who owe you favors to put in a good word.
• You can’t do it alone: You will need plenty of hands to open new fronts, do delivery runs, and protect your product from envious rivals. 
• The walls have ears: But proceed carefully, because everyone is always observing what you’re doing, and family members stick up for each other. Whether you send your people to harass someone, or to help them, you can be sure they’ll remember it down the line.
• Getting territorial: As your outfit grows, convince locals that your goods and theirs will be looked after. Territory under your control will provide a safety net, an income base, and a wealth of opportunities for further growth and expansion.
• This era belongs to you: You’ve grabbed the opportunity by the horns, and the city is yours for the taking. But you only have a few years to make your mark on history, to build the largest, most profitable crime syndicate, take over your competition, and rule the entire city.
• Because after 1933, it will be all over, alcohol will be legal again. And doing business fair and square, well, everybody knows that’s not where the real money is.

City Of Gangsters is in development for PC (Steam or GOG) in summer 2021.