This can be done through the purchase of both legal and illegal businesses, maintaining protection rackets, raiding businesses, and bribing or employing the appropriate people to keep the gang out of trouble with the law. To support the mob's activities, the player will need to handle administrative responsibilities to ensure a steady flow of cash. There are different automobiles and weapons that can be purchased so the gang can carry out orders more effectively. It is also possible to hire a lawyer and an accountant. Hoods can be promoted to the rank of 'lieutenant', which gives them the ability to lead a crew of hoods. A hood with high knife skill and low fists skill may inadvertently kill someone he was merely sent to beat up, for instance.

The hoods have many different attributes, such as intelligence, fists, and knives, which make them suitable for different missions. Additional hoods can be recruited from gyms, pool halls, cafés, the docks, and the unemployment office. The player must also begin recruiting more hoods to increase the strength of their gang by giving the appropriate orders. To have any chance of winning the game, the player must begin expanding their territory by giving hoods orders to extort local businesses into paying protection money to the gang each week and making sure it's collected on time. The player must first give orders to the gangsters (referred to as 'hoods') under their control, which are then played out during the real-time aspect of the game (referred to as the working week). Gangsters is played by alternating between turn-based and real-time gameplay.

Gangsters organized crime mods