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In a moddable city sandbox, choose legal work or crime, shape your character, and role-play with NPCs and other players.
Released 26 Jun 2024
Choose Your City Role
Sell Contraband to NPCs
Build Custom City Maps
A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.
Developed by BROKE PROTOCOL · Published by BROKE PROTOCOL
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
BROKE PROTOCOL is an open-world city role-playing sandbox with no fixed story path. Start on the streets and choose how to live, whether as a police officer, paramedic, firefighter, driver, gang member, or another kind of character.
Take jobs, interact with citizens, drive vehicles, explore interiors, or turn to crime by stealing cars and trading or processing contraband. Combat and other encounters can involve weapons, restraints, and law enforcement, while your choices affect character progression and your rap sheet.
Build up a character by earning money and acquiring apartments, garages, or gang territory. Community servers can change rules and add custom content; players can also use the world-building and modding tools to create maps and customize the game.
Positive reviews value the freedom to invent a role and make their own activities, with modding and customizable servers letting players shape the experience. Some also enjoy the unpredictable situations that emerge during role-play, especially with friends. These themes sit alongside reviews that describe the game as rough or lacking direction.

Broke Protocol is a city roleplaying experience where everything from guns, clothing, vehicles, and rules can be fully customized. Build your persistent character from the ground up in community-run servers that are fully scriptable and loaded with custom content.
You steal cars, process drugs, trade with citizens, heal the fallen, or enforce the law. Your choices affect your progression and your rap sheet.
Rise through the ranks of the criminal underworld, or carve out a life as a paramedic, firefighter, driver, gangster, law enforcer, and more. In Broke Protocol, you start in the streets, build empires, and leave no witnesses.
Supports over 100 online players per server, alongside dynamic NPCs
Complete overhaul servers with immersive war and apocalyptic themes
Fully moddable: Includes a Unity resources package and comprehensive guides for creating custom content
Destructible voxel environments for a truly interactive experience/*]
Server mods are automatically streamed to players and cached for seamless gameplay
Completely scriptable, with open-source GameSource, LifeSource, and WarSource projects
Robust and user-friendly World Builder with no limits and thousands of prefabs
Hundreds of AI NPCs, including citizens, police, firefighters, paramedics, and criminals, populate the city streets
3D Positional VOIP for immersive public and private player interactions
Take on any job to bring order and justice to the streets
Access a variety of interiors, complete with staff, guards, and shopping areas
Dozens of usable weapons, including guns, tasers, grenades, flashbangs, smoke bombs, and restraints
Ownable apartments, garages, and a gang/territory system for deeper roleplaying
Driveable cars, trucks, aircraft, boats, and armored vehicles for diverse gameplay
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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