Dirty Business for PC: Guide, Tips & System Requirements

Dirty Business is a first-person crime business sim for PC from Plan Dirty Games, available on Steam.

You start with a hidden underground hangar and one job: build a criminal empire from nothing. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print counterfeit money, then move product through the city before someone else muscles in.

The production and distribution loop is what carries the whole game. You hire workers to grow, cook, and manufacture, then choose how to move product, small elevator runs, front company vehicles, or a secret cartel airstrip for the big orders. Every upgrade to your base opens up more of that loop at once.

Dirty Business launched on July 22, 2026, on Windows 10 and 11 (Early Access at the time of this writing). It plays solo or in co-op with up to 4 friends.

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What You Need to Know

• Dirty Business is $14.99 on Steam.
• You can play solo or team up with up to 4 friends in co-op.
• The game currently covers drug production, weapon crafting, and counterfeit money, with more illegal activities planned down the line.

Dirty Business is sold on Steam. You will need a Steam account to buy and launch it, and since the game supports co-op, it helps to have friends on Steam ready if you plan to run your operation as a group.

• Step 1. Go to the Dirty Business Steam page and click Add to Cart.
• Step 2. Sign in to your Steam account, or create one for free if you don’t have one yet.
• Step 3. Complete the purchase, then let Steam download and install the game automatically.
• Step 4. Check your free disk space first. The install only needs 9GB.
• Step 5. Make sure you have a stable internet connection if you plan to play co-op, since online play requires it.
• Step 6. If you’re playing with friends, invite them through Steam’s built-in friends list before starting your operation.

Dirty Business is a first-person crime business simulator from Plan Dirty Games, a small independent studio. You start out running a hidden underground hangar beneath the city, and your job is to turn it into a full criminal operation. That means producing and selling drugs, crafting weapons, and printing counterfeit money, then figuring out how to get it all to customers without getting caught.

Distribution is where the game opens up. Small and medium orders go up an elevator to street level, larger shipments move through front company vehicles, and your biggest orders go out through a secret cartel airstrip that reaches distant parts of the city and beyond. You can handle deliveries yourself or hire street dealers to do it for you, freeing you up to focus on production.

Everything scales as you go. You hire workers to grow plants, cook chemical drugs, and manufacture weapons, then reinvest profits into upgrading your base, unlocking new production rooms, and eventually opening an underground garage to support a larger distribution fleet. You can run the whole thing solo or split the work with up to 4 friends in co-op.

🎮 Our Take

Dirty Business has landed with Mostly Positive reviews, and the core loop explains why: it takes the familiar tycoon-management formula and gives it a genuinely fresh coat of paint by leaning into the crime setting instead of running a coffee shop or a farm. The distribution layer is the most interesting part, since choosing between elevator runs, front vehicles, and the cartel airstrip forces real decisions about risk and scale rather than just clicking a sell button. Expect some rough patches, players are already flagging bugs like characters getting stuck and inconsistent UI feedback in early discussions.

If you enjoy management sims and don’t mind some early rough edges, this is worth grabbing now, especially if you have a friend or two to split the workload with. If you’d rather wait for a more polished build, keep it wishlisted and check back later.

Dirty Business FAQ

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• Official Dirty Business Discord