15 Best Gangster Games To Play Right Now

 Gangster Games
Updated:
11 Dec 2023

All the wiseguys in the world need a lesson.

Vendetta and blood money is the only way to go far, and getting far is better than getting killed. Do whatever it takes, wherever it takes you, to get ahead in the game.

Show those idiots a thing or two about what it means to live on the streets.

Enter the 15 games that entice the senses of ambition, desire, and destruction on PC. With limitless amounts of mayhem, the streets are yours to conquer.

15. Scarface: The World is Yours

Scarface: The World Is Yours Gameplay

Hardened Gangster Tony Montana makes a return to the screen, only this time the player gets to control him as ruthlessly as they want.

Shoot your enemies where you want; leg, arm, his balls? Take your shot and earn points for it. Take control of the area and build an empire with money and the barrel of a gun.

Money is power, use it to take control of Miami. In this third-person shooter, the player takes destruction and chaos and uses it to their advantage.

In this world, everyone is against you. Show them what happens when you get serious as you grind them beneath your heels.

Only finishing what other men started.

Tony Montana introducing once again his “little friend”


14. The Slater

The Slater Gameplay

Drugs, crime, and murder. Easily the start of a story that deserves to be noticed. Ex-police officer Mark Slater uses stealth and his investigative skills to track out a drug on the streets called “D-Pain”. Players will sabotage surveillance systems, hide enemies in hidden places, and shoot the back of people’s skulls with a silenced pistol. In this Neo Noir video game, follow Slater’s story and uncover the truth. A classic tale of revenge, do whatever it takes to uncover the shadows on Slater’s father and his death.

Players will decide if killing a man on the urinal is worth a bullet. Or they might just choke him out and leave them humiliated.

Be one of them to get to your target. 

13. Godfather 2

The Godfather II Gameplay

Fast cars, guns blazing, and New York as the setting. All these combined form a story like The Godfather II. Take control of Dominic Corleone and gather territory and notoriety throughout the rival families. Shoot, drive, and fight barehanded to get what is rightfully yours. Everything earned must be take by force, otherwise no one would learn. Command a squad of personal soldiers and get missions done. The world ain’t sunshine and rainbows eh?You never know when you cross the wrong person in this line of business. Sometime a family will send their regards.

Pay your dues or pay with your life.

An Italian family classic. 

12. Yakuza 0

Yakuza 0 Gameplay

Serving under a boss would be a gratifying role in the world of Yakuza. To fight for your family is the highest honor.

Kiryu Kazuma is a man who no longer is able to fight for his family, the Tojo Clan directly. But all of his actions culminate into an exclamation point that leaves him a legend in the Yakuza underworld. Everything he does, is for the Tojo clan.

Kiryu will fight and bleed to do the right thing for the family, even if the family itself cannot see it.

Goro Majima, is a man who is on a redemption quest. With each twist and turn of his life, he decides that enough is enough and attacks at the throat of the beast. Kiryu Kazuma, and Goro Majima are both legends in the universe of Yakuza.

Find out what made these hardboiled men the legends they are known for in the present.

What is a good gangster game without brass knuckles, a gangster classic.

One man can wreak a lot of havoc in Japan with a gun. 

11. Yakuza Kiwami

Yakuza Kiwami Gameplay

Yakuza Kiwami is the first game in the installment series and the sequel to Yakuza Zero. After Kiryu Kazuma is found guilty of shooting the boss of the Dojima family, Kiryu is sentenced to prison. After being released, he is informed that his brother he is now the one he needs to stop.

Corruption and power take everybody, it is up to Kiryu to maintain the order in the Yakuza underworld. After the events of Yakuza 0, Kiryu Kazuma continues his quest to help his family behind the scenes.

In an effort to save his sworn brother, Kiryu takes the blame for Sohei Dojima’s murder, but what happens after he comes out of prison is a wake up call.

Money can cause the worst betrayals, even between sworn brothers.

Careful who you pick a fight with. Otherwise you might enter a lion’s den.

10. Mafia

Mafia Gameplay

Albeit older than most games, old is gold. Tommy Angelo, was a regular cab driver until two gangsters urged him to help them out, offering payment as “assistance.”

With things escalating to another Tommy was then able to get in good with the Morello family, making this mob storyline all the more compelling to watch. Follow this tale of Italian gangsters and find out where the legendary Mafia series started.

Become a gangster in the 1930’s and learn what it meant to be a mobster.

No copper is about to stop Tommy Angelo.

9. Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs Gameplay

Canto-American Wei-Shen is a hardened undercover cop who lives on the line investigating the Sun-On-Yee (The Triads). With the beautiful women, and the life of crime he has to live, is Wei Shen getting in too deep? This kung fu tale of violence and Triad operations is bound to make players feel like a true Triad.

With the resources of both the police and Hong Kong’s most notorious gang, who will stop you? Be on the blue side, or quench your vendetta and destroy anybody who stands as your equal. With a mission to fulfill, get the opportunity to play both sides of the same coin of crime and punishment.  

Wei, the tatoo rugged undercover cop, distraught over the double life he lives.

Best way to make a man talk, cut him up with a cold precision.

8. Omerta: City of Gangsters

Omerta: City of Gangsters gameplay.

Step into the footsteps of “The Boss.” An immigrant from Italy who comes to the United States during the 1920’s prohibition period.

This game is an interesting spin on a tactical turn based game, making this an all the more interesting feature for gameplay as you take control other territories other families have. Strategy and cold calculating precision is the only way to win this time. Guns blazing, might get you the axe on your head.

Confrontation? Or a professional courtesy?

Careful who you think isn’t an enemy, they might just come back and obliterate you.

7. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days gameplay

With the underworld, why only have one when two is available? Kane and Lynch come back again only this time in the streets of a foreign city. Shanghai, China. A deal brings both Kane and Lynch back to the fold.

However they are both open season because of loose ends. The two were bound and beaten. They were lacerated with box cutters, what else can these men survive?

Both men only prove they can survive hard conditions, continue with their story to see just how much punishment they can take.

A little game of bad cop,worse cop.

Two foreigners in a foreign city. Two men with a vengeance.

6. Grand Theft Auto 5

Grand Theft Auto V gameplay

Franklin, a hoodrat vehicle repossession man trying to make it, gets into contact with Michael, a professional criminal.

With all the chaos and mayhem a Grand Theft Auto game can give, the game adds another character to play as, Trevor. Each individual has special ability that is different but useful in their own way. These three go off into their different stories but collide on jobs to make big bucks. And it all started with Franklin taking back a car from Michael’s son.

The crew is all together. Better watch your back.

Enjoy a sunset in the world of Los Santos with a beautiful ride. Then get back to business.

5. Max Payne 3

Max Payne 3 gameplay

Max Payne, a detective with a notorious reputation, has taken down hardened New Jersey criminals. However after becoming washed up and an alcoholic he makes a move he cannot take back Max leaves the city.

After getting offered a job for “easy bodyguard work” easy seemed to go 180 degrees as Max steps back into the fire. With and overdose of painkillers and flying into bullet time, Max shoots his way into hell once more landing in the tough rugged streets of Brazil

Max Payne’s Bullet time works every time.

For Max Payne, a man with a gun is just a Tuesday.

4. Saints Row 2

Saints Row 2 gameplay

Life of the hardknocks was never supposed to be easy. That's where you as “The boss comes in.” In this open world sandbox, you are in control of the “3rd Street Saints”.

But what it feels like ain't nothing. The boss finds out that three new gangs emerge, and after establishing himself and his gang “The Player” strikes at the throat and goes on an uphill battle to claim what is the 3rd Street Saints’.

Making enemies in the streets ain't good. 

Can people really take what was never truly theirs?

3. Crime Life: Gang Wars

Crime Life: Gang Wars gameplay

Tre, a rookie member of the Outlawz must fight his way to become an initiated member. With life in Grand Central city being the way it is, fights in the hood are the only way to live.

With the Headhunterz as the rival gang, Tre puts up and goes ham. With his fists Tre goes and beats down all thugs who stand up to him.

“Blood is thicker than water.” Not in this family it isn’t.

Showing popo’s how it's done in the hood.

2. 50 Cent Bulletproof

50 Cent Bulletproof.

Renowned rapper 50 cent gets pulled back into the shadows of his underworld past. 50 gets a call from a friend K-Dog, and grabs a gat and dips his crib only to be gut shot 9 times and wake up at an unknown place.

With the help of his squad, they roll out and get going.

Y’all players already know you ain’t peepin at the squad.

1. Mafia II

Mafia II gameplay

War Hero Vito Scaletta comes home after being convicted of theft. But a war hero’s return doesn’t always mean Mr. Nice Guy.

Vito comes home to his buddy Joe, and they pick up right where they left off, only on a more professional level; Mafia level.

With a pistol in hand, and a ride around the corner Vito climbs the ladder of Empire Bay’s criminal underworld.

Sending a message with a Tommy Gun is an Italian classic.

Vito came home from a war zone to dominate another.

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