Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Aug 17 → 1.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Roleplay: Choose one of fourteen unique bosses based on fictional and real-world gangsters, then set out to build and manage your criminal empire in Chicago’s infamous Prohibition era.Empire Management: Build your Empire of Sin and run Chicago’s underworld economy with business savvy, brutality or city-wide notoriety. Strategically manage your establishments such as speakeasies, supply chains, casinos and more. Turn-Based Combat: Assemble your gang and slug it out in turn-based combat to defend and expand your territory – or send a message to opposing gangs.Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $39.99 | 6.3Kreviews | 48% | — | $5.4M |
| $39.99 | 3.1Kratings | 69% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
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Reviews
As a person who enjoys classic television shows and movies, I like the idea and basis of this game. However, I can't recommend spending $40 on this game unless it's on sale. I feel like this game could have been something bigger and better than it is. It just feels a bit sluggish and unfinished the interface is also kind of cluttered. However, for what it is, I do enjoy it.
So I've played this loads on my PS5. The original devs of the game (Romero Games) abandoned it after getting out the first dlc, ban people on Discord who mentions it and are generally not great people (this went on for years). This caused MANY fair negative reviews because of left bugs and the fact if you bought the season pass, the promised second dlc was never released. HOWEVER. A new studio has took the reigns very recently and created the second dlc, as well as some bug fixes. About the game, well its an enjoyable mix of XCOM combat, unique characters and amusing business sim. For me a solid 7/10. I hope the game gets a fairer chance now that its had some content again. Be amazing if development continues past this, but I wouldn't hold your breath
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese*languages with full audio support
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| 1.8Kratings |
| 58% |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 825 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I really wish the devs would of cared for this game more. It's such a great mafia game, had so much potential.
Good for sale, bad for full price
too buggy. game breaking bugs that were obvious and never fixed. save your money. they're done with updating the game and there are still several bugs that were never fixed.
Needs a lot more work. amazing potential but was abandoned.
Gehofft hatte ich damals auf ein Spiel im Stile von "Gangster" oder auch "Dime City". Aber leider ist es nur Empire of Sin im Stile von sich selbst. Und der Stil entspricht nicht der aktuellen Mode, sondern hinkt dieser meilenweit hinterher. Pro: + Setting: gut umgesetzt und stimmungsvoll + Musik: soweit ich sie in Erinnerung habe + Grafik: ist hübsch anzusehen und die Stadt ist ebenfalls recht lebendig Contra: - Bugs. Immer noch. Mit etwas Glück gehts, aber man sollte nicht drauf wetten - Spielgefühl: es wirkt, als würde man stets das gleiche tun. Es ist dabei aber weder Rollenspiel, noch richtig Management, noch ausbalancierte Rundentaktik. Von allem ein bisschen, aber leider nichts davon gut - Seasonpass der bis zum heutigen Tag einen DLC schuldig geblieben ist (!)
This game is broken, from main missions crashing the game, blank event pop ups forcing you to close the game, and trying to trade with npcs crashing the game. As much as I enjoy the game, its a waste of time when you dump a couple dozen hours into a play through to have it get to a point where all it does is crash/break.
Do not take my thumbs up as me recommending you buy it. I don't recommend that, the game is a buggy mess, even after all this time. My thumbs up represents me liking the game. I own it on Xbox as well and put a lot of combined hours between the two platforms. I can get lost in it and still enjoy it despite it's huge flaws. I don't think most people will enjoy it the way I do. I love the theme and the management aspects of the game, The graphics are fine but then you get into glitched out missions, among other bugs that others have mentioned. If you can see past all the issues you may enjoy it like I do, doubtful though,
I'm really disappointed in the Publisher. Most of the games they publish gets abandoned. Just a warning to those who plan to buy games from this publisher to only buy their games on sale if they want to reduce their risk of buying an unpolished abandoned game.
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