The Dope Game Reviews

The nastalga is over the top with this one so simple but so great, The memories , 90s flashbacks . if you played dope wars or mafia wars this will bring back great flashbacks . Cocaine is a hell of a drug

The game looked pretty exciting on the store page and they really did a good job both with the trailer and with the game info, however the gameplay is pretty underwhelming considering the presentation it offers. One would think that this is a game about dealing drugs, you take drugs from a person, and you sell them to another, you stack some drugs in your house, maybe you produce some of your drugs, maybe you get high on your drugs, maybe you even get in some fights because of your drugs, that's what you would expect from a 'drug dealing simulator'. What the game actually is, is just a stock trading simulator in which you buy the so-called 'drugs' online through an app which is supposedly provided by CIA (makes fucking sense), and you sometimes get into RPG type battles with random people, or the unrealistically perceptive cops in the game, because cops always know what a drug dealer looks like and whether or not he has drugs on him. I use the term 'so-called' because you could really replace the drugs in this game with anything and it wouldn't make a single difference in the gameplay. The main character doesn't even have a house/apartment, he just goes around the town 24/7 with his tablet and backpack supposedly selling and buying drugs, I don't even know how he gets the drugs, the game never shows him receiving them, it just shows him purchasing them online, I suppose they drop from the sky or some shit, maybe the CIA use their top notch technology to synthesize the drugs directly into his backpack. The cops in this game don't make any sense, they will attack you on sight if you have drugs on you or even legally owned weapons, and they will frisk you if you don't (which is clearly a violation of your rights in almost any state and country), and if you're at the start of the game good luck dealing with them, cause you won't be able to fight them, and you'll almost never get away. It would have really been a great thing adding character stats in the game like speed (so you can get away from the cops without tripping 7 times in a row when you try to escape) or strength (so you could actually handle the cops in fights without having to purchase the ridiculously overpriced weapons). Also, why does this game take the weapon system to the extreme? I'm pretty sure no low-profile drug dealer would ever carry a rocket launcher or a flame thrower in his backpack. (I don't even know how you could fit those into a backpack) Also, the pricing of the drugs in this game is complete garbage. I mean, I'm not a drug-obssesed junkie, who just wants to snort coke everyday, but I know that a gram of cocaine doesn't cost $20,000. It doesn't matter when or where you buy it, you could get it in North Korea for cheaper than that. Hell, you could probably even get it into space for cheaper than that. I understand that it wasn't an easy game to make, (especially since you guys spent so much time filling all that background story that nobody cares about) but if you are to make a game on drugs, could you at least do some research on the average prices for street drugs? And yes, they use the famous 'unit' as quantity measurement, just so they can discount pieces of criticism like this, but for real, that unit could be a gram, an 8 ball, an ounce or even a pound of cocaine and the pricing still wouldn't make sense. And even if we are to talk about the kilos, it still wouldn't make sense either, as the other drugs would be way too cheap. Needles to say, if you were to carry pounds or kilos of drugs in your backpack and walk through the entire town for days on end, you would probably break both your back and shoulders at some point. I personally can't recommend this game because it's poorly made and not what I expected, I don't really know what I expected from a 2€ game, but I guess I expected something a bit more than a stock trading simulator.

I cant claim to be the expert but apart from a few achievements being nigh-unobtainable, i dont really have any issues with this game. Extremely cheap, easy to understand. Good time waster. Worth your money ? If you enjoy this sort of gameplay, sure. Worth your time ? Only if your time is as worthless as mine.

[h1]A game about work for people at work (not so much)![/h1] [b][i]The Dope Game[/i][/b] is a game about selling dope, nothing more, nothing less; however, you have to be smart when playing this game because you never know what is going to happen with every move you make! From police to robbers to loan sharks and clones! Truly, this game knows what it's doing. [h1]Gameplay[/h1] Gameplay-wise, this game is solid; for a game that is worth a dollar it's really fun, it's not the Grand Theft Auto type crime game, but it's like a CYOA (Choose your own adventure); you start with some money from a loan shark and from there you choose where you want to go and what you want to do with that money. This game is can really force you to manage a lot; you have to choose from different places to buy and sell drugs, each drug you buy has a different price for each area, you must choose a good area to buy the supply cheap and then find another area to sell it at the highest price as possible. Raising enough money can help you buy much more expensive drugs (that you can later sell at a higher price), more space for storing drugs, buying guns, bodyguards, using a store service to hide drugs, and some more. You must be careful though, random events do occur in this game and could really hurt you (or help)! [h1]Overall...[/h1] this game is really fun, and for what you get it's worth the dollar or less. This game is great for just killing time or when you have nothing to do at school or work (It has a NSFW mode). [b]Overall - 6.5 [/b]

this game is one of those where you boot it up idly while listening to a podcast and end up muting the podcast so you can take in the awesome soundtrack. It's also one of those games where the art style perfectly matches the music and draws you in with the simple but elegant game play that will suck hours away if you aren't careful. the speculation and strategy involved sharpens your wit the more you play the game, making each additional time-based challenge appealing to achieve where other games sit unfinished in my library. this will be one of the first games I install on my steam deck. did you buy it yet?

buy the game for $0.99, get the free cards, buy remaining cards for $0.30~, sell emotes for $14. EZ money.

> Killed the loanshark - I owe him 2k > Found 2 bags of coke on him > Tour around the city, sell the coke for 28k each > Ez profit, ez life 10/10 would pop loansharks again

[b]I absolutely loved the old [i]Drug Wars[/i] games, and always felt that someone should do a modern remake.[/b] I've even toyed with making one myself. So naturally, I was psyched to hear about [i]The Dope Game[/i]. While this title is a competent remake/modern version of the old game, it just could be better in so many ways. I mean, the buy-low-sell-high premise is painfully simple to recreate (you don't even need artwork), but the envelope needs to be pushed further to add in QoL bells-and-whistles. I've tried to get into this title several several times over the course of years, and everytime I play it only takes about 10 minutes and my mind starts drifting and I lose interest. If pressed, I could come up with a full list of issues I have, or ways to just simply make the game better, but I'm not going to do that here. I'll just note that the most important screen in the game is the buy and sell menu. I find it awkward to use. Here are notes: [list] [*]Why not have a second column showing how many (if any) drugs I own? This would make it super easy to do the transaction. As-is, I have to either look in the backpack or click on each drug. Maybe this is a feature you buy later on (I don't know), but it just seems like something so fundamental. [*]Make things functional. Color the name of each drugs text for an additional layer of connecting my mind more quickly to what is being offered. Like, oh I don't know, make cocaine always in bright red text. [*]The slider-looking buttons are awkward. Honestly it'd just be easier to redesign the whole menu to make it more functional. Why can't I make multiple transactions all at once? [/list] [b]Anyways, I just think this kind of game is super easy to make, so I find it frustrating that the UI and design decisions couldn't have been more functional.[/b] I would prefer to play the old text-based ones over this to be honest. And I wish that weren't the case. [b]Pros:[/b] +From looking at dev posts and updates, this is obviously a labor-of-love +The artwork is unique +The humor is great +Price point is fine [b]Cons:[/b] -Simple idea drug down by awkward UI and overall system (pun intended) -I don't particularly like the artwork [b]I just think making a [i]Drug Wars[/i] clone is low hanging fruit.[/b] I would have liked to see more design decisions geared towards functionality.

If you enjoyed Dope Wars in the 90's you will get a kick out of this. True to the original in my opinion while also adding a bunch of new twists, the music and dialogue throughout the game are solid, sometimes even disturbing (old lady, looking at you). Great little game for the price if you played Dope Wars back in the day.

This game is based on DrugWars, that line alone got me excited and was the main reason I bought this thing in the first place. Unfortunately it turns out that it's more or less DrugWar's very distant retarded cousin that share the family name because their grand grand parents once had a short, drunk and passionate adventure. This game is just not worth even this price tag, the RNG is completely awful. Day 1, visited a loan shark, called him bro got screwed over, game over Day 1 again, visited the loan shark, called him sir, got some cash and bought my first drugs Day 2, after visiting my first other location I get confronted by a cop Straight up, no warning, nothing, just a cop in my face forcibly searching me for drugs I try to run away trip over my own feet, he catches up and the fight starts, this is where it gets really good You are equipped with fists that do 1-2 damage The officer has a gun that does 10-20 So what could I do? I try to run away and trip over my feet, again and again and again this happened 5 goddamn times and then it was another game over screen. Seriously? Suddenly you're too retarded to walk? How the hell do you trip over your own feet 5 times? OK maybe I just had bad luck, so I decided to start the game again ,survived my first trip earned some cash, bought some stuff, earned some more, and soon I was sitting on a glorious sum of $8500 Time to pay back that thug so I don't get my face blown off, go back to the starting zone, see some guys with baseball bats, run away and drop like 90% of my cash. And at this point I decided to uninstall and request a refund, this game has nothing to do with any sort of stratgy it's simply seeing how long you can dodge the RNG bullet.