German developer Goodgame Studios is hoping to revive a slowly declining genre on Facebook with Goodgame Mafia.
A child of the text-based role-playing games of yesteryear, the game is a bit more visual in its presentation, but offers little in terms of a hook or anything particularly new.
Even worse, for a game centered around organized crime, it is notoriously slow paced, even for a social game, and grants minimal gratification or reward for playing and progressing.
When you first start out in Goodgame Mafia you’re given the option of a tutorial, but no real premise to hook you into the world. You’re just a criminal because the game says you are.
To play, you visit The Godfather and accept missions from him and his cronies within his personal lounge. Each quest takes a period of time to complete, and consumes rechargeable energy. Even this early, however, the issues begin to appear.