Best Crime Games on Steam
Games about criminals, investigations, heists, lawbreaking, corruption, or underworld stories.
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1Schedule I - From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Mar 24, 2025
In this game, you can…
- mix drugs with other ingredients to create effects like super jump, speed boosts, or turning users into ticking time bombs.
- pickpocket the whole city by day, then go gambling at night as part of the same routine.
- buy a Golden Skateboard, break in through a shack window, knock a guy out, then pickpocket him to get your money back.
- build a drug empire from nothing, scaling into properties, employees, dealers, laundering, and automated production across Hyland Point.
- run the entire operation hands-on: water and trim plants, mix ingredients, bag and package product, test purity, then coordinate in-person handoffs.
- discover weird recipes and lace your product with absurd additives that radically change what it does to people.
- stack boxes and barrels to climb over fences and slip past police patrols during curfew.
- set up dealers to unload lower-quality batches while you keep experimenting with new mixes, keeping money flowing while you expand.
2Persona 5 Royal - Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- get framed for assault, moved to Tokyo, then dragged into a parallel world by a talking cat to commit heists.
- send a calling card, break into someone's mind, and steal their "heart" to change how they act in real life.
- talk enemies into joining you mid-fight, then fuse them into new monsters to build custom battle strategies.
- spend a full in-game year budgeting every day between school, jobs, friends, workouts, and night-time dungeon raids.
- hide behind cover, grapple to hidden routes, and ambush guards in themed dungeons that play like stealth heists.
- trigger a critical hit, chain teammate follow-ups, and end the turn with a screen-filling group finisher.
- build friendships that unlock concrete combat perks and special moves, not just extra dialogue.
3Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition - The Definitive Edition of the critically acclaimed, award winning open-world action adventure, reworked, rebuilt and re-mastered for the new generation. With all previously available DLC included and a wealth of tech and visual improvements, Hong Kong has never felt so alive.
Oct 8, 2014
In this game, you can…
- slam enemies into fish tanks, dumpsters, wood chippers, or an electric eel tank to finish a fight.
- jump from your moving car onto another vehicle, hijack it mid-chase, and keep driving without stopping.
- shoot during vehicle chases, including firing from a motorcycle and while mid-jump between vehicles.
- chain kung-fu counters, grabs, and combos until you're roundhouse-kicking groups and snapping arms in one brawl.
- walk into a karaoke bar and sing a full song as a low-stakes break from the crime story.
- do side activities like illegal street races, cockfighting, gambling, and drinking tea in night markets.
- bring jade statues and other finds back to a kung fu school to unlock new moves that change how you fight.
- work both sides as an undercover cop, taking Triad jobs and police cases while trying not to blow your cover.
4Yakuza 0 - SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
Aug 1, 2018
In this game, you can…
- build a real-estate empire and appoint a chicken as your property manager.
- switch between three fighting styles mid-fight, including breakdancing as a real combat style.
- protect a moonwalking Michael Jackson lookalike from zombies using a motorcycle.
- grab almost anything nearby and beat people with it.
- get jumped by a huge crowd, swap styles on the fly, and end the brawl by slamming someone with a street object finisher.
- run a full cabaret club management mode, hiring hostesses and setting them up to dominate the night.
- spend piles of cash to unlock skills and get stronger, turning money into character growth.
- load up the game and immediately go sing karaoke with full music-video scenes.
- play Pocket Circuit toy-car racing and tune your build to crush kids at the track.
5Saints Row: The Third - Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
Nov 14, 2011
In this game, you can…
- take a tank skydiving, then call in a satellite airstrike on a wrestling gang.
- beat enemies to death with an oversized purple dildo melee weapon.
- raid a military base, survive a zombie outbreak, enter a Tron-like computer world, then finish in tanks and jets.
- earn money by throwing yourself into traffic and chaining car hits for bigger payouts.
- fight through a deadly game-show arena full of enemies and traps in Professor Genki's challenges.
- run around completely naked while still doing missions and causing mayhem.
- jump out of a speeding jet, fall into the city, and keep fighting when you hit the ground.
- call in crew members who steal cars to follow you, take hostages, and revive you in firefights.
6Hitman: Absolution™ - The original assassin is back! Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
Nov 19, 2012
In this game, you can…
- line up dead-accurate shots by marking enemies, then clear the room in one burst.
- trigger a dance party for cops while disguised as a cop, then hide in plain sight as the DJ.
- replay a checkpoint to kill the same target over and over in totally different ways, like poison, katana, pit drops, or a falling chandelier.
- sparta-kick someone over a ledge.
- poison food, sabotage electrics, and rig machines so a killing looks like an accident.
- swap outfits off an immobilized guard, then hide your face and bluff past people who almost recognize you.
- shoot with both Silverballers at once.
- hide in closets, vents, or garbage bins, then slip into the next area and quietly take someone out before anyone knows you were there.
7Mafia II (Classic) - Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...
Mar 22, 2011
In this game, you can…
- get chased by cops, then swap license plates, change clothes, and fix your car so they won't recognize you later.
- pull off a jewelry store heist, then plant explosives to assassinate a rival, then drive straight into the fallout.
- watch the city change across years and seasons, going from snowy winter streets to spring rain, green grass, and convertibles.
- work your way from small debt errands into major mafia jobs with Joe as the stakes keep climbing.
- get ticketed for speeding, pay fines, bribe officers, or try to resist arrest on the spot.
- refuel your car, pop the hood and trunk, stash crates, and choose whether to pick a lock or smash a window.
- fight through shootouts where cover gets chewed up as wood splinters, glass shatters, and brick crumbles around you.
- get period radio songs and broadcasts that react to story events, and can change on another playthrough depending on what happened.
8Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy - Become Phoenix Wright and experience the thrill of battle as you fight to save your innocent clients in a court of law. Play all 14 episodes, spanning the first three games, in one gorgeous collection.
Apr 9, 2019
In this game, you can…
- interrogate a parrot as a courtroom witness.
- use a magic lock-and-key mechanic to confront someone's hidden secret and force the truth out before you ever reach court.
- defend a client while everyone in court is openly hostile, and still win by proving a murder case in just three days.
- cross-examine witnesses and slam contradictions with the right evidence mid-testimony.
- walk crime scenes, inspect obvious objects, and interrogate everyone until the clue chain finally makes sense.
- keep pressing a witness until they add one tiny detail, then use that new line to spring a contradiction and flip the whole trial.
- watch witnesses and culprits visibly break down in court when your evidence finally corners them.
- start on a goofy, low-stakes case that keeps unfolding into a way bigger murder mystery with late twists that rewrite everything you believed.
9PAYDAY™ The Heist - Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
Oct 20, 2011
In this game, you can…
- trade hostages to the police to get a captured teammate back.
- open a hidden overvault by having four players physically align inside the bank vault, then walk away with 60 million dollars.
- pull off a hospital job by stealing blood samples, breaking into quarantine, drawing and purifying blood, restoring elevator power, then stealing an ambulance to escape.
- sneak through a pitch-black building, disable cameras and alarms, and watch the entire heist flip depending on whether anyone spots you.
- babysit a drill or saw, sprint back to restart it when it jams, and hold the room as the police keep closing in.
- hit a bank vault that forces you into a full chain: cut the safe, realize you need thermite, then either get in quietly or burn through the roof.
- run heists where objective spawns and enemy paths shift, so the plan changes even when you know the map.
10Yakuza: Like a Dragon - Become Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking yakuza grunt left on the brink of death by the man he trusted most. Take up your legendary bat and get ready to crack some underworld skulls in dynamic RPG combat set against the backdrop of modern-day Japan.
Nov 10, 2020
In this game, you can…
- buy a brothel, staff it with a chicken named Omelette, and still rake in millions.
- summon a lobster through your phone to beat up street thugs.
- call in a paid ally to drop an orbital strike on random gangsters.
- run a company, recruit employees, and fight angry investors in shareholder meetings.
- switch your party into jobs like Musician or Foreman and carry skills across roles for weird build combos.
- smash enemies with whatever's around, from bicycles and traffic cones to a stack of money.
- shout "Happy Birthday!" and smash a boss with a cake as an attack option.
- time a last-second guard to blunt huge hits, then answer with a cutscene-style special finisher.
- enter turn-based fights where everyone keeps moving, so you line up angles to avoid getting cut off mid-attack.
