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Drug Dealer Simulator Hits PS5 Today — Time to Build Your Empire, Legally Speaking

  • Writer: Niels Gys
    Niels Gys
  • Jun 20, 2025
  • 2 min read

💊 Drug Dealer Simulator

Build an empire. Sell the product. Avoid getting shot. It’s capitalism with extra felonies.



Criminal/Evil Scorecard:

  • Play as a criminal? 

    • ✅You are the criminal. You don’t “play” as one — you become one. From slinging weed in a sewer tunnel to laundering thousands in bloodstained bills, this is full-immersion criminality. No sugar-coating.

  • Play as the evil one? 

    • ✅Let’s be honest — there is no good guy path. You’re not Walter White with morals. You’re Walter White after Season 5, minus the cancer and with more cinderblocks.

  • Heists or theft? 

    • ✅You're not cracking safes — you're cracking the entire supply chain. Smuggling, money laundering, bribery, crafting fentanyl in your apartment. Theft? No. Exploitation? Absolutely.

  • Murder or violence? 

    • ✅✅Guns, turf wars, DEA raids, and a UI that encourages you to run, fight, or bribe your way through the law. The violence may not always be your fault, but it’s always your problem.


The Setup:

You're dropped into a filthy city called Edengrad, which is ironic because nothing here even remotely resembles paradise. You start out pushing grams on the corner for some guy named Eddie — a shady connect who may or may not be grooming you to take the fall.


You mix your stash, haggle with dealers, unlock hideouts, and gradually scale from low-level scum to full-blown Scarface with spreadsheets. It’s a gloriously grim climb up the criminal food chain.

Gameplay:

  • Drug crafting & cutting: Cocaine with baking soda? Sure. MDMA with glitter glue? Why not. You can literally water down your stash with sugar and still sell it at top shelf.

  • Territory management: Expand operations, claim turf, recruit mules. If you're not expanding, you're dying.

  • Police evasion: The fuzz is relentless. You’ll get chased, cornered, raided, and interrogated. Stealth, bribes, and timing are your best friends.

  • Empire systems: Build your lab. Hire people. Upgrade operations. It’s like SimCity, but your parks are stash houses.


The Good:

✔️ Immersive criminal progression

✔️ Deep (and disturbingly realistic) drug production mechanics

✔️ Tense, tactical gameplay with stakes

✔️ Surprisingly solid voice acting and dark humor


The Bad:

❌ The AI cops have all the subtlety of a nuke

❌ Occasional jank — your character sometimes clips harder than a cracked-out NPC

❌ No real morality slider — you’re evil whether you want to be or not (which… fine)


Criminal Mastermind Rating 9/10

The only thing keeping it from a perfect 10 is the lack of international smuggling and maybe a few nukes. But as far as street-level empire-building goes, this is textbook CRIMENET GAZETTE material. Highly recommended for aspiring kingpins and spreadsheet-loving sociopaths alike.


Verdict

Play it. Build it. Break the law. Get rich. Stay paranoid. If you're not sweating when the sirens get close, you're not playing it right.

 
 
 

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I’m Niels Gys. Writer, gamer, and professional defender of fictional criminals. On screen only. Relax. I front JETBLACK SMILE, a rock ’n’ roll band from Belgium that sounds like bad decisions set to loud guitars. Turns out the mindset for writing about crime, chaos, and villain energy translates surprisingly well to music.

Here I run CRIMENET GAZETTE, a site dedicated to crime, heist, and villain-protagonist games, movies, and series. Not the wholesome kind. Not the heroic kind. The kind where you rob banks, make bad decisions, and enjoy every second of it.

CRIMENET exists because too much coverage is polite, bloodless, and terrified of having an opinion. Here, villains matter. Criminal fantasies are taken seriously. And mediocrity gets mocked without mercy.

I don’t do safe scores or corporate enthusiasm. I do sharp analysis, savage humor, and verdicts that feel like charge sheets. If something nails the fantasy of being dangerous, clever, or morally questionable, I’ll praise it. If it wastes your time, I’ll bury it.

CRIMENET isn’t neutral. It sides with chaos, competence, and fun.
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