Crime Boss: Rockay City

My friend reccommended this game to me saying this is a hidden gem.
After the initial couple of hours I realised that this game doesn't want to be serious, nor wants to be a payday killer. This game wants you to have a fun time stealing stuff and doing criminal activities with your friends, or just simply taking over the City of Rackay. The game is so easy to get into, turn your brain off make some decisions where you spend your hard earned money and just simply have a laugh at the self concious and parodic narrative. This game is genuienly a hidden gem and I'm glad I was reccommended this game because now I'm hooked. Oh and also I have a couple hours in payday 2 as well, so you can stop comparing games and enjoying them both because I said so.
EDIT: Sorry for the misleading information, the game has a fully solo rogue-lite campaign which is obviously about replayability. You can solo every content in the game. Just add some bots to your crew if you want teammates and you're good to go!

I got this game on the big sale from when it came to Steam. I didn't think I would play it all that much.
Almost 50 hours later, I've willingly purchased more DLC packs for this game. You should get this on a deep discount, when the Cagnali's Order and Gold Heist DLC's are added alongside it, but if you're the kind of person who likes silly 80's and 90's action movies, I think you would enjoy the vibe of this game. The game is being actively developed and the content they're adding is clearly adding on things they've done before.
My criticism is this: I would not call this a "good game," in the way that Payday 2 is a good game. There's a lot of individual details you can probably recognize just from looking at gameplay and comparing the two. This game has about 50% of the pure *stuff* that Payday 2 has - characters are mostly an appearance, a primary-secondary-melee weapon, an equipment, and three perks. This is in service to the roguelite gameplay mode, but it can feel limiting to someone who's played a game with more mechanics at a baseline, and if that was reason alone for you to disregard this game and just go back to that copy of Payday 2 you already own, I would never judge.
HOWEVER, I do believe that this game taps into a feeling that Payday 2 never gave me. The highlight for this is any time I get a Jewelry store mission - there's a certain feeling to trying stealth, taking out guards, sniping a camera that spots you, disabling the security room camera station, getting spotted by a civilian, and smoothly transitioning into a Loud mission where you start smashing everything around and stuffing it into bags before the cops arrive. The conceit of Payday is that you are international heisters going on international escapades; the conceit of Crime Boss: Rockay City is that you're a local operation, scrappy, scrounging for everything you can grab and stealing every advantage you get. I have genuinely been hyperfixated on this game specifically because I have significantly more of an opinion about my time with Rockay City than I do having played an equivalent amount of Payday.
If I can give at least one piece of genuine, unironic praise: The voice acting is actually rather impressive. The mid-level characters you play as are genuinely very charming, Nasara is voiced by Damion Potier who you might recognize as Chains, and Danny Trejo and Vanilla Ice actually give pretty damn good performances in my opinion. Even the sillier performances like Chuck Norris or the dearly departed Michael Madsen's have their own charm BECAUSE of that silliness, it lends itself to that "B movie" quality. Also, the music choice is actually kind of inspired, I think the devs have a great grip on the general vibe.
TL;DR I played about as much of this game as I did Payday 2. Payday 2 is a "better game", but I like this one significantly more. And Crime Boss: Rockay City is a very fun title to say.

A hidden gem... for discount
This game is pure chill. I hop in a few times a week after work. Throw bricks, neak around, shoot stuff, rob a few places. The vibe is great, the gameplay is simple, missions shuffle just enough to keep things fresh. It's no masterpiece, but as a casual criminal roguelite its absolutely hits the spot. I dont know if its worth buying at full price. Maybe not. But I grabbed it with a 90% discount, and for that price, it's totally worth it.

It's a roguelike crime action game with a bunch of famous actors from 90s-00s and tons of content
The singleplayer is great and fun, you need smart resource management to capture the whole city before Chuck Norris gets mad at you, but the multiplayer is bad. If the devs had made the same roguelike mode in multiplayer, it would be a win, but we have payday style multiplayer with a huge number of bugs, lags
I'm glad that the game has a roadmap, stable updates and a small price (3.24$ on discount in my region is nothing for so much content & "Freestyler" in the menu)

Really cool paydaylike/Heist game
Really fun to play with friends
Honestly i don't get the hate on this game, it is fun. Got the best parts of payday and simplify(in a good way) things that didn't make much sense in payday( builds for example)
The good:
-Good variation of heists and environments
-The AI in this game is useful, they loot the stuff and carry bags to the van
-Good variety of weapons
-Progression is simple but fun, this don't have the stupid limited builds like payday 2
-Voice acting is nice, even from people that are not actors
-Good graphics( and i don't have issues with performance, aside from the Christmas map that stutter like hell)
-There are tons of characters and each one has it own voice and personality
I think that if the devs focused more expending money into making more maps and more stuff in the game instead of hiring expensive actors to do the characters, this game could easily have killed payday.

It's Payday for 30+ gamers. Nothing fancy but the roguelite mode is fun if you just want to relax.

In my opinion, Crime Boss is superior to PD3 as far as a heisting game goes.
However, the gameplay loop is a lot different, so it's not really an apples to oranges comparison.
Crime Boss is more of a singleplayer focused roguelite with a heavy emphasis on replayability and the characters you can play. WITH CHUCK NORRIS.
The base gamemode consists of taking over territories from other gangs on a world map (ultimately destroying them), running heists, getting new gear, recruiting new team members, and running special character-specific missions. Team members are a huge part of a Crime Boss run and they can either make or break it. They level up with use and each have their own skillsets, abilities, and some even have custom-tailored missions to either unlock them or unlock new abilities/equipment for them.
While running the singleplayer roguelite campaign, you'll unlock more characters and weapons to use in multiplayer heists.
Basically... If you're looking at this review and Crime Boss is still -75% off, you're crazy to not buy it. I can't guarantee you'll love it, but, if you're here looking, you'll probably enjoy it.