Just finished the game. Feels incredibly barebones, like a tech demo with a facebook game tacked on.
The core of the gameplay is the turn based combat, as odd as it is for an empire management game, the bulk of your time will be spent murdering tons of men and wombyn, in a 50/50 even split. I brutalized close to 400 wombyn through my playthrough, which seems so incredibly retarded for a game about the mob. The wombat is serviceable, even if incredibly simplistic. All you need to know is that if you arent using a machine-gun, you are doing it wrong. Though there are degrees of wrongness, melee being the objectively pants on head retarded approach. Wont go into too much detail because all stats are self explanatory.
Then theres the empire managment aspect, this shit is simple, you do battle with the occupants of every abandoned building, murdering hobos by the hundreds. Then turn them into business. Other than knowing to upgrade shit when you have money to spare theres nothing to it. Yes, you could look into it in detail, see what kind of business would be more profitable, blah blah blah. Waste of time, just keep attacking shit.
On the gang management aspect shit is just incredibly dumb. Every crew-member actually gets a cut of the profits, the higher tier ones get a bigger cut, up to 20% of your earnings. Meaning you need to balance your team around that.
Every team member has set relationships, they hate some people, love some people, and like some people. You cant have anyone hating anyone else in your gang. In theory it shouldnt be possible, as you cant recruit people thats at odds with your gangters, but because the game was made by autists relationships get developed at random. In my playthrough i had this 70 year old granny in my team, she was one of the doctors i kept around. She and some 30 something blond girl were in love, but then this 40 something dude falls in love with the 70 something granny and murders the blonde girl without giving me time to do anything. That aside the "black book" showing you the people you can hire is incredibly diverse, niggers, chinks, wombyn, nigger wombyn, and im pretty sure a couple of them are troons, but never bothered to read the bios, it didnt matter.
The police, i remember it being a thing back at release, but the patch has neutered them completely, they dont do anything and may as well not be in the game.
Goal of the game is to murder every other faction leader and take their things. I beat it in the highest difficulty and it was manageable at first, but once you got your crew going strong you basically trampled over everything. The AI is retarded, they will do shit entirely at random, feels like if you were dealing with wombyn on their period 24/7. Nothing they ever do makes any sense.
Quests sometimes offer two or three paths, but are otherwise pretty dumb, and offer no real reward. Random events are too sparse, feels like after 10 hours playing it i say 5? Im not sure how many more there are, but it doesnt feel like there are that many more.
In summary, its a complete and utter mess. It works well enough, seems to have been patched and now your save files wont get corrupted, the performance isnt horrible. Its just a huge waste of time.
