Beginner's guide: your first day in GangCity
A step-by-step walkthrough of your first day in GangCity: committing crimes, earning money, buying protection and weapons, breaking out of jail, traveling, and making your first allies.
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GangCity Wiki
Guides, tips and explanations for the free online mafia browser game. From your first crime to building a family empire.
Getting started
Best Mafia Browser Games from the Netherlands: GangCity Compared
A comparison of Dutch mafia browser games like Mafiaway, Omerta, Bendes and CriminalWar, and what sets GangCity apart: ranks, story missions, families and economy.
Crime & money
Crimes in GangCity: Earning Money and Weighing Risk
An overview of all solo crimes in GangCity: crime, extortion, robbery, breaking in, plundering accounts, the street network and kidnapping, plus how risk, energy and police attention work.
Stealing Vehicles in GangCity: Bicycles, Cars and Helicopters
How vehicle theft works in GangCity: steal bicycles, motorcycles, cars and helicopters, store them in your garage, damage and resale value, and use vehicles in joint heists.
Smuggling in GangCity: Trading Liquor and Drugs Between Cities
How smuggling works in GangCity: buying liquor and drugs cheap and selling them for more in another city, carrying capacity, selling risk, city heat and cooldown.
Heists in GangCity: Route 66, Organised Crime and Mega Heist
GangCity joint heists, including the daily Mega Heist with preparation while joining and automatic execution for crews of 2 to 4 players.
Game mechanics
Ranks in GangCity: All 16 Ranks and How to Get Promoted
Overview of all 16 ranks in GangCity, from Empty-Suit to Legendary Godfather, with the XP thresholds and an explanation of how to earn rank progress and get promoted.
Titles in GangCity: Competition Titles, Prestige and Family Titles
Overview of all titles in GangCity: rotating competition titles like The Don and Crime Lord, the honorary titles Legend and First Legend, recruiter titles, family titles from the season competition, and cosmetic titles.
Prison in GangCity: Getting Caught, Breaking Out and Freeing Others
How prison works in GangCity: why you get caught committing crimes, how to break yourself out, free fellow gangsters, and limit your time behind bars.
Buffs and bonuses in GangCity: where do they come from?
What buffs in GangCity are: City Director rewards, the new-player bonus, marriage bonus, family donation buff, credit shop and slot machine jackpots, and how stacking and the per-buff maximum work.
Daily missions and your career in GangCity
Everything about GangCity's daily missions: rewards, rerolls, career ranks that unlock options, mission types like versatile and travel missions, and the contracts offered by your city contacts.
Traveling in GangCity: The Five Cities and Why You Travel
The five cities of GangCity (Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and Hawaii), how traveling works with cost and travel time, and why you travel: smuggling, story missions and opportunities.
Story Missions in GangCity: The City Contacts and Il Capo
GangCity's storyline through city contacts: Don Moretti, Yusuf, Mei Ling, Officer Bakker and Eddie the Fence, building trust per city, and unlocking the final boss Il Capo.
Detective bureau in GangCity: tracking players and simulating attacks
How the detective bureau in GangCity works: tracking down players for murders and kidnappings with a choice of cities, tier and speed, plus the murder simulation to calculate an attack in advance.
Honor points in GangCity: earning, sending and boosts
What honor points (respect) in GangCity are: how you earn them, send honor or disgrace to players, and spend them on boosts like Discretion, Connections, Street Tip and Intimidation, or on anonymous murders.
Starting Over After Death: Keep Your Name or Choose a New One
What happens when you die in GangCity and how you start over: keep your name or choose a new one, what you carry over (donor status, badges, titles) and what you leave behind.
Vacation Mode: What Pauses While You Are Away?
How vacation mode works in GangCity: protection for your daily login streak, extended deadlines for active story missions, and which timers continue during your vacation.
Prestige in GangCity: Starting Over as a Living Legend
What prestige in GangCity is: voluntarily starting over as Legendary Godfather for permanent stars, titles and benefits. The costs, the payoff and the three prestige levels.
Cooperation & competition
Killing in GangCity: Rank Range, Bullets, Heat and Protection
The complete GangCity killing rules: rank range, rank surcharge, free and received bullets, Heat, cooldown, protection, backfire, loot and starting again.
Witness Reports in GangCity: Auctions and Cold Cases
How witness reports work in GangCity: keeping evidence, selling it through Obay, publishing it, transferring it after a murder and protecting it with the dead-man switch.
Families in GangCity: missions, season competition and war
Everything about families in GangCity: founding and the member limit, hierarchy and automatic Don succession, the shared treasury and bullet vault, story missions, the season competition, family respect and family war.
Family war: 72 hours, war fronts and War Points
Complete family war guide: declaration and confirmation, three periods, kills, kidnappings, bullet factory sabotage, War Points, bonuses, surrender and the family title.
Hitlist in GangCity: Bounties, the Pot and Hired Kills
How the hitlist works in GangCity: bounties as a growing pot, buying off your own bounty, wanted for murder, and what you need (bullets, weapons, murder experience) to kill a target.
Events in GangCity: underworld actions, city takeover and more
The recurring events in GangCity: underworld actions (community pot + the title Underworld Boss) and short flash actions, City Takeover for bullet factories, the big GangCity Event with levels and an XP boost, and the organized mass breakout.
Street Duels in GangCity: Minigames, Street Cred and Titles
How street duels work in GangCity: challenge players to Rock-Paper-Scissors, Tic-Tac-Toe, Battleship or Connect Four, earn street cred through an ELO rating, and climb to titles like Street Kid or King of the Street.
Economy
Running Costs: Upkeep, Reserve and Absence
Which running costs GangCity charges for bodyguards, protection, vehicles, villas, transport, vigilance and Hawaii, and how the three-day cash reserve and 72-hour protection work.
The stock exchange in GangCity: trading shares with bankruptcy risk
How the stock exchange (Wall Street) works in GangCity: a rotating market of companies across five risk tiers, buy and sell price impact, sales tax, bankruptcy with partial recovery, and a weekly profit cap.
Casino in GangCity: blackjack, poker, slots, lottery and scratch tickets
All the games of chance in the GangCity casino: blackjack, poker, the fruit machine, video slots with a progressive jackpot, the daily lottery and Scratch & Win. Plus an explanation of casino ownership and the house edge.
Bullet Factory in GangCity: Buying Bullets and Owning a Factory
How the bullet factory works in GangCity: buying bullets at the city price, owning a local bullet factory with pricing, margin and security, and acquiring ownership through City Conquest.
Neighborhood Management in GangCity: Building a Street Network and Raiding Runners
How Neighborhood Management works in GangCity: build a street network of runners for passive income, and hijack or steal runners from other players through a push-your-luck raid (PvE and PvP).
Obay in GangCity: The Underground Auction and Marketplace
How Obay works, the underground marketplace of GangCity: trading bullets, vehicles, properties, runners and persistent witness reports through auctions with minimum bids and buy-it-now prices.
Bank and safebox in GangCity: keeping your money safe
The difference between pocket cash, the bank and the safebox in GangCity: pocket cash can be stolen, the bank is safe with daily interest, the safebox offers extra security for donors, plus how your will protects your estate.