This game is too long, I will finish in six years

I was looking forward to this game because it seemed to promise a mix of tactical strategy with city/ business management games.

Unfortunately both of these aspects are lacking in the published product.

The combat system plays out in mostly very cramped buildings where on turn one a grenade could be thrown by an enemy taking out half your team before you can move them and the inventory management for items and equipment is painfully hard to use. If there is any way to filter by item or compare two I don't know how or where to look for it.

On the overworld and managing I found myself just teleporting around the city to the doorstep of buildings because moving through the streets was pointless, there doesn't seem to be any real issues with running of alcohol in the prohibition, I just found the biggest building I could to make booze in and then instantly sell it in whatever kind of place I take over. The game encourages such wide playing that I hardly upgraded businesses because I could just take over more for free and not have to deal with small improvements.

The missions came in so fast after the opening that I couldn't even realize what was happening with them, never mind care about the story they presented because there was no clear meaning behind any choice. It felt cheap to try and make a campaign out of the murder game (see following).

After a few hours of try to play mobster defending my neighborhood and dealing more peacefully with those in others, I found out the only way to win or really progress is by murdering the other crime bosses. Like I can get any gangster I want by calling them up after killing enough people but this dude who has two rackets to my 40 wont take like $50,000 to work for me or just go away?

I'll look to come back to this when they release the DLC and hope that they add real functionality and not just new areas with the same bad gameplay loop.

Wild.

This is actually remarkably fun for what it is, it took me ~1 to 100% (+ 1) the game and I don't regret it. I look forward to seeing what these developers do in the future.

I recommend trying this game to anyone who tries for completion in games and those who just want to rush through.

There seems to be some time put into developing some kind of wacky story in the journal (though I admit I didn't actually read everything) and it is a somewhat interesting world to walk through.

Great game by a solo dev. There are some very complex and interlaced systems that may be hard to work out alone. The tutorial does a great job in getting you to survive, but I recommend joining the discussion on the game's discord or perusing the wiki to thrive.