Empire of Vice
Build your crime empire in an 80s-inspired open world
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Empire of Vice is a free, open-world crime game set in a neon-soaked 1980s coastal city. Steal cars, take over districts, build a criminal empire, and outrun the cops. Featuring story missions, turf wars, racing, and more. Play the open beta on Windows and macOS.
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PH · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
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See all 93 similar launches →Could you build this?
No Building an open-world 3D crime game with driving physics, police AI, missions, and cross-platform native binaries requires extensive 3D game engine expertise, art assets, and systems programming.
What it would actually take: Developing this game requires a high-end 3D game engine like Unreal Engine or Unity, incorporating complex systems for vehicle physics, traffic navigation (NavMesh), state-machine/behavior-tree police AI, and quest scripting. In addition to technical architecture, it requires substantial 3D asset pipelines (models, animations, audio, shaders) and performance optimization for multi-platform delivery. This requires an experienced team of game developers, technical artists, and gameplay programmers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
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- ViceBounce · github · 2026-10-18 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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