Company of Crime

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About the game

Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an
influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force
and crack down on the rising tide of corruption?

Company of Crime is a criminal empire-builder featuring tactical turn-based
missions. It takes place in 1960s London, the cultural capital of the world
and home to a plethora of subcultures and businesses. Your task is to build
a company that will own the criminal underworld, or if you play as the chief
inspector of Scotland Yard’s famous Flying Squad, tear it down piece by
piece. In the process you will go to pubs, clubs, vets, tailors, harbors and
many other locations as you expand your influence over the city. Your team
consists of either gang members possessing the different skills required to
pull off criminal tasks, or detectives that have mastered the art of
investigation. The big question is ultimately this: who will take London?

Features

Tactical turn-based melee combat

With a focus on melee combat and tight spaces, Company of Crime sets
itself apart from other tactical turn-based strategy games. Units have a
zone of control that makes them tied to the choices you make. Block enemy
movements, build superiority in numbers, and gain flanking bonuses by
attacking from behind. You can even kick enemies where the sun doesn’t
shine to create safe passageways to units that would otherwise get free
attacks. If someone grabs a gun, either find cover or go after them to
wrestle it away before the bodies start piling up.

Heat mechanics

When doing your dirty business, you’d be wise to silently extort your way
through the underworld. Loud gunfire or shooting enemies will only attract
more opposition, and a criminal empire that blows its cover won’t go far.
Fighting the outcome of too much heat is always more difficult than
avoiding it, and if things get too tough, you better have some leverage to
get the cops off your back.

Level progression

This is more than just cops and robbers. Whatever the mission is, there is
level progression beyond just hit points and stamina. Beating up the owner
of a pub is one thing, but you can’t just bail before the police arrive.
You’ll have to first assemble any evidence that will prove it was you at
the crime scene crime scene before jetting.

Building legit business with criminal means

Building a criminal empire requires a legitimate cover. Progression of the
game takes place as you… ahem… “convince” people to sell their businesses
and homes to you at a bargain price, or at least turn a blind eye to what
you do in their back room. Owning more locations will unlock more items,
features, and elements, but will also potentially expose you to a surprise
attack from the police or a rival criminal family.

Not just your own story

While your task is to create an empire of crime or to tear it down, this
is not just your story. This is a story of 1960s London with beatniks,
mods, lemonheads, rockers and every other cultural identity of the time.
It’s also a story of a falling empire. The Cold War UK is shining in the
cultural world, but is facing ever-increasing pressure from inside and
out. There is a mysterious order trying to tear down the British Empire
from the shadows, and who better to fight it than experts of the
underworld and the famous Flying Squad.

Reactive Police

Shady business takes place in obscurity, so police gameplay is more
reactive. You get the call only when violence takes place, but that’s not
the best way to find evidence against the criminal families. Assign
sergeants to discover shady places, speak with informants, and apply for
search warrants to raid questionable locales. Make sure they don’t burn
the evidence before you manage to arrest them, or they’ll walk free as
quickly as they were taken in.