ABOUT DRUG WARS: CHICAGO

30 days · 8 neighbourhoods

A trading game about thirty days in Chicago, a debt that grows whether you touch it or not, and eight neighbourhoods that never price anything the same way twice.

Ride the L, work the spread between where a thing is cheap and where it is scarce, and try to be square with the loan shark before the month runs out.

THE MAPEight neighbourhoods on five CTA lines. Each one biases every product differently, so routes matter.
THE CLOCKOne ride on the L is one day. Thirty days, or sixty, or play until your character retires at 65.
THE SHARKYou start owing $5,000 at 10% a day. Unpaid long enough, his people come looking.
THE STREETPolice raids, shakedowns, informants and droughts — each an animated 16-bit scene you answer for.
YOUR OPERATIONBank what you cannot afford to carry, buy stash houses, and arm yourself before you need to.
THE ARTEvery scene, portrait and item drawn to one 36-colour palette at 16-bit resolution.
PLAY HOW TO PLAY