Review cherlin 3/5 · Jul 17, 2026
super fun but has some issues
the game has a really annoying bug that soft locks your progression when you get all customers before preventing cartel dealers from selling, then those dealers wont spawn without console cheats so you cant reduce the cartel's influence. was completely unable to progress in the town for like 3 hours before we realized we genuinely just couldn't.
money laundering is …
the game has a really annoying bug that soft locks your progression when you get all customers before preventing cartel dealers from selling, then those dealers wont spawn without console cheats so you cant reduce the cartel's influence. was completely unable to progress in the town for like 3 hours before we realized we genuinely just couldn't.
money laundering is a slog. there's a weekly limit in how much you deposit to your bank account without it being suspicious or something so you need to launder the rest of it. laundering takes up to a full day and whoever is doing the bulk of the drug deals will very quickly feel limited in what they can do since the person at home making the drugs will be draining a lot of the bank account on ingredients and seeds. purchasing real estate/businesses requires bank money so when you reach your weekly limit and literally cant launder anything else and there's no money in the bank... yeah. it forces you to wait.
i also noticed that you can literally just create 1 product that is cheap (2-3 ingredients) but is worth a significant amount and just sell that for the entire game and you don't really have to worry any more. obviously, doing that will bore you... so don't do it. i purposefully try to find multiple products worth a lot so i can buy and make variety. so i sell like 2-3 variants of weed and maybe 3 variants of meth, so on.
workers are also a chore to handle. it's annoying to have to go into a locker and put cash inside all the time, just for them to not really even do their job. but cash is only a problem for me since i literally never have any as the dedicated chemist/botanist. so far i've only been playing with a cleaner and thought he'd pick up all the trash i drop on the floor when growing weed and making meth but he is literally worthless. the only good thing about cleaners is that they remove the need for garbage bags.
aside from that a lot of ppl complain about the repetitiveness but i like it. i play with 1 friend and spend my time making the drugs while he acts exclusively as the dealer/runner. i essentially have no idea how the dealing works and he has no idea how the production works. the game is fun if you like games that feel like a job, so i do recommend it. i am enjoying myself a lot regardless.