This makes me want to play Dope Wars again. If you haven't played it, it's a 1980's small time drug dealer simulator played entirely through menus. You start out with debt to a bookie that you have to pay down by a deadline and if you don't pay it you'll have to deal with mob goon random encounters. The actual game involves traveling between areas in the city and buying and selling drugs based on street market prices which fluctuate. You also have random events like the DEA doing a big bust causing the prices of some drugs to skyrocket for a time. Of course you can get hassled by cops and have other random encounters. I think something like this laid onto a 2D map game might be fun.
This makes me want to play Dope Wars again. If you haven't played it, it's a 1980's small time drug dealer simulator played entirely through menus. You start out with debt to a bookie that you have to pay down by a deadline and if you don't pay it you'll have to deal with mob goon random encounters. The actual game involves traveling between areas in the city and buying and selling drugs based on street market prices which fluctuate. You also have random events like the DEA doing a big bust causing the prices of some drugs to skyrocket for a time. Of course you can get hassled by cops and have other random encounters. I think something like this laid onto a 2D map game might be fun.