VGChartz’s Lee Mehr: “Crime Boss: Rockay City is a has-been roguelike mashed together with a has-been FPS that’s mostly filled with has-been movie stars. There are so many minute details from top to bottom that make it nigh impossible to afford charitability to its writing, design, or overall taste. It’s true that it works, in that bugs and other technical issues aren’t plaguing the game. It can be finished and there are some salvageable crime enterprise mechanics to fiddle with, but everything surrounding that feels hollow and misguided. There’s no other way to look at the rougelike elements than as a deliberate sham for its recycled content either. Perhaps it’s fitting for that special kind of emptiness to come from a crime game; by the end of it, you’ll have been viciously pilfered of both your time and money.”
