Dirty Business

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Genre: Simulation, Early Access · Developer: Plan Dirty Games · Release: Jul 22, 2026.

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What is Dirty Business

Dirty Business drops you underneath a city with nothing but a hole in the ground and criminal ambition. It’s a management sim about running an illegal operation from the shadows: growing drugs, cooking chemicals, forging cash, and building weapons in rooms you dig out and expand yourself. The hook is straightforward but effective: you’re not playing a gangster in cutscenes, you’re playing the guy running the spreadsheet behind the gangster, and the game wants you to feel the weight of scaling a criminal business the same way a tycoon game makes you feel the weight of scaling a legal one.

How it plays

The loop starts underground. You hire workers to tend plants, run chemical production lines, and assemble weapons, then decide whether to fulfill specific customer orders or just dump product for a quick sale. Once you’ve got goods, you have to move them, and that’s where the game gets its logistics layer: small orders go up an elevator to street level, bigger shipments ride out in front company vehicles, and once you’ve built a cartel airstrip you can send serious volume across the map or out of the country entirely. You can run all of that distribution personally or hire street dealers to handle the legwork while you focus on production. Underneath all of it is a base-building thread: unlocking side rooms, expanding your garage, upgrading your operation over time so the whole thing scales past a one-room drug den into something closer to an empire. It supports solo play or co-op with up to four friends, which turns the whole operation into something you can actually staff and manage together.

Who it’s for

If you like the guts-and-numbers side of games like this, watching supply chains tighten up, optimizing worker assignments, figuring out the most efficient route from product to profit, this is squarely built for you. The criminal setting gives it flavor, but the actual appeal is the same one that hooks people on factory and tycoon games: building a system that runs better than it did yesterday. It’s also worth a look if you’ve got a small group of friends who enjoy co-op management games, since splitting production and distribution duties across four people sounds like it could turn into its own kind of chaos. It’s probably not for you if you want a crime story with characters and plot, or if you bounce off Early Access games that are still filling in their content over time.

Is it worth it?

Because it’s Early Access, go in expecting a game that’s still being built rather than a finished, polished product, and weigh that against how much you enjoy watching a system take shape as new rooms, mechanics, and distribution options get added. For genre fans who know they like this kind of underground-empire management loop, it’s the type of game that rewards picking up during a sale and then checking back in as it grows, rather than paying full attention to it on day one. If management sims with a criminal twist are your thing, it’s worth keeping on a wishlist and grabbing when the price dips.

Quick facts

Genre: Simulation, Early Access. Developer and Publisher: Plan Dirty Games. Platform: PC (Steam). Release date: July 22, 2026.