The Chair

You are the head of a real criminal organisation at a real moment in its history: the Corsican milieu of Marseille in 1950, the Sicilian families of Palermo, the Yamaguchi-gumi on the Kobe docks, the Cali cartel in 1985. Your people bring you decisions one card at a time (a shipment, a bribe, a rival, a raid) and you swipe left or right. Every choice moves four meters: Money, Heat, Loyalty and Standing. Let any of them run to either end and your reign is over.

Some of these cards happened. Each organisation is built from a researched historical dossier, and when a card comes from the record, the game shows what the record says, and says so when the sources disagree. The deaths and arrests history recorded aren't scripted: they're rolled against the state you've built. Patrons shield you until a scandal burns them or you ask one favour too many; heirs take the Chair when you fall. At the end of every run, your Legacy measures how far you drifted from what actually happened.

There's nothing to aim and no clock to beat. You win by reading ahead: which meter a choice will push, what the next decade will bring, which ally will cost you later. A run covers decades of history in about ninety decisions. A careful player survives about half the time, and no simple fixed strategy survives at all.