Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
All Reviews:
6 user reviews - Need more user reviews to generate a score
Release Date:
Sep 26, 2024
Developer:
Publisher:

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Download Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire Demo

Buy Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire

 

About This Game

Quench the thirst of 1920s Prohibition New York! Build a criminal organization to distill and peddle whiskey, and you could end up rich, famous, or dead.

Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire is an interactive historical novel by Drew Morrison. It’s entirely text-based, 210,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

The year is 1920. Prohibition has begun, and alcohol has become illegal overnight. As public bars, distilleries, and distributors have shut down, thirsty patrons now turn to the black market, as organized crime rises to meet insatiable demand.

You started running whiskey in rural Pennsylvania with a few friends in a barn, trying to make a better life for you and your sister, brewing bathtub gin and white lightning. Now, you’re building an illegal operation to distill and distribute liquor.

Your target: New York City. The teetotalers call it "Satan's Seat." The city is full of rich folks who want to drink booze while they dance the Charleston till dawn—and you’re going to sell it to them.

Use your business acumen and instincts to outwit your rivals; or ally with them to build your own empire even higher! Bargain with union leaders and mob bosses to get your booze to Manhattan’s ever-growing network of speakeasies—or ruthlessly eliminate every one of your rivals in bloodthirsty shootouts. Life back home in Pennsylvania is almost as dangerous, with the preacher who wants to keep your hometown dry, and the Feds moving in closer every day.

As you gather your power, there’s no telling how high you could climb. Will you become the mayor of your hometown? You won’t have to worry about the cops if they’re on your payroll. Will you just get rich, living in your palatial Manhattan penthouse? Or will you become a Broadway star with your name in lights?

But you know what they say: the higher they rise, the harder they fall. If you get on the wrong side of the wrong people, you could end up in prison, or worse.

  • Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bi.
  • Manage the workers in your operation; will you be a generous leader, or a merciless profiteer?
  • Drive on wild car chases to get your moonshine to the big city before your rivals can catch you!
  • Launder your illegal earnings through a Broadway play—and maybe even become the star!
  • Navigate the politics in your hometown: Communists, union organizers, temperance preachers, and more—or become the mayor and put them all at your command.
  • Climb the ranks of New York City’s mob to inherit an empire—or get caught by the Feds, and see it all come crashing down.

Why be a cog in someone else's machine, when you can have your own moonshine empire?

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: 10
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    Minimum:
    • OS: 10.13
    Recommended:
      Minimum:
      • OS: Ubuntu 20.04
      Recommended:

      Customer reviews for Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire

      Review Type


      Purchase Type


      Language


      Date Range
      To view reviews within a date range, please click and drag a selection on a graph above or click on a specific bar.

      Show graph



      Playtime
      Filter reviews by the user's playtime when the review was written:



      No minimum to No maximum

      Display
      Show reviews in selected display order





      Learn More
      Show graph
       
      Hide graph
       
      Filters
      Excluding Off-topic Review Activity
      Playtime:
      Played Mostly on Steam Deck
      There are no more reviews that match the filters set above
      Adjust the filters above to see other reviews
      Loading reviews...