Crime Boss: Rockay City

Crime Boss: Rockay City launched March 28, 2023 from Ingame Studios, a co-op FPS that assembled an all-star cast—Michael Madsen (in his final video game performance), Chuck Norris, Danny Trejo, Kim Basinger, Vanilla Ice, and more—for a Heat-inspired crime romp set in a Miami Vice-flavored Florida city. The pitch sounded incredible: you're Travis Baker (Madsen), assembling a crew to become Rockay City's crime boss through heists, shootouts, and territorial conquest. The execution? Metacritic scores ranged from mixed (PC/Xbox) to "generally unfavorable" (PS5), with the PS5 version landing as the sixth-worst game of 2023. Critics appreciated the star-studded cast but roasted the repetitive missions, brain-dead AI, and gameplay that felt like a PS3-era Payday clone. The game launched as an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC before hitting Steam in June 2024 and consoles in June 2023. StreamerHouse's 367-viewer peak in 2023 came from curiosity about the celebrity cast, but the gameplay couldn't support sustained interest. Crime Boss had the vibes—90s crime movie aesthetic, over-the-top performances, Florida kitsch—but the mechanics were shallow and the mission design was copy-paste tedium. It's the video game equivalent of a Direct-to-DVD heist movie: recognizable faces, zero substance, instantly forgettable.