A crime game on the real world map · 18+
SHADY SHIZZLE
You have an ordinary job in a real neighbourhood. A colleague asks if you'd take a parcel along. Nobody has to know.
In development · Windows first, then Android and iOS
What it is
ShadyShizzle is an online crime game set in the real world: real countries, cities and districts, with their real reputation. Realistic, dry and a little satirical.
You slide into it the way it happens in real life: a favour here, a small job there. After that you decide how far you go, with whom, and how visible you become. A big mouth is tempting. Growing big quietly is smarter.
From the story
How it starts
Tuesday, 17:40
Your shift is over. In the canteen a colleague puts a parcel on the table. "Can you drop this off tomorrow? Don't open it." There's a fifty underneath.
Three weeks later
It isn't fifty anymore. You know the back door of the club, the man at the garage who asks no questions, and the officer on duty on Thursdays. You keep the job. On paper you're still someone with a fixed rota.
Later
You grow big and nobody notices. Your name disappears from the lists. On the ranking there's only a title and a country left.
The way up
Six phases. You don't have to tick them off, but this is usually how it goes.
- I
Cover
A day job as a courier, bartender or bookkeeper. The first offers come on their own.
- II
First steps
Street jobs that take real time. Along the way you choose: keep going, pay someone off, or walk away.
- III
Making a name
A career, a first property, plants in the attic. The neighbourhood starts to know you.
- IV
Organisation
Hire people and pay them. Hand off the work. Ship loads through real ports.
- V
Empire
Districts under your control, laundered money, a villa in a country that doesn't extradite. With your clan.
- VI
Shadow
You operate everywhere and nobody knows your name. That is the highest title.
What it's about
217 countries · 7,138 places · 171 seaports
The map is the foundation
Where you are decides what you earn, how fast you get noticed, how good the hospital is and who hits back. A villa district in Zürich plays differently from a harbour quarter in Antwerp or a village in Brabant.
wealth × (1 − visibility)²
Quiet wins
Being known makes everything riskier: raids, warrants, a growing file. The Shadow ranking rewards money nobody sees. Stay quiet enough and you're on it without a name.
jobs with 2, 3 or 5 players
Together
Add friends with a code, chat, start a clan. Do jobs together, give orders to your familia and hold districts against families that take back whatever is weakly held.
extradition per country · fake papers
No borders
Too hot? Flee to a country that doesn't extradite, buy papers in another name or go to ground in a district where nobody asks questions. Every country has its own police, corruption and healthcare.
The real world
217 countries and territories are open, from Brabant to the Andes and from Lagos to Manila. Real districts, real neighbourhood names, the ports that really move containers. Countries with a war going on right now stay closed: we don't play real wars.
Alpha
The doors are ajar.
ShadyShizzle is in alpha on Windows. The street, the real map, careers, property, laundering, bosses with long memories, group jobs and a daily paper already work. Expect rough edges, and now and then a reset.
Download it, install it, play. The game updates itself and finds the server on its own. Android and iOS follow.
- NowAlpha on Windows: free download, updates itself
- NextMore players, a fairer economy, the rough edges off
- ThenAndroid and iOS
What it isn't
The world is real, the people are not. Everyone in the game is made up.
- No real people, gangs or brands
- No real ongoing wars
- No advantage for real money
- No real money gambling
- Adults only