Free trading strategy games
Buy low. Fly far. Don't get caught.
Drug Lord is a series of fast, numbers-first strategy games about a market that never sits still. You start broke and in debt to a loan shark, and you have a few weeks of game days to turn a pocketful of cash into an empire. Prices move every day, every city wants something different, and every flight is a gamble.
No download needed: both games run in any modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer.
Two games, one account
Newest
Drug Lord 3
- 26 cities
- 12 ranks
- Crew & fights
- Shipping
- Global leaderboards
- 10 languages
The full empire game. Trade across 26 world cities, hire a crew, run front businesses, ship loads by courier, take delivery jobs, and outlast a rival lord who is climbing the same ladder you are. Each promotion buys you more days, and each rank multiplies the money in play.
The classic
Drug Lord 2
- 15 cities
- 7 ranks
- 30-day runs
- Loan sharks
- 8 languages
The original, rebuilt. A lean game of quick decisions: one market screen, one departures list, a shop, five loan sharks and a hard deadline. A run takes ten minutes to learn and a lot longer to master. Perfect for a coffee break.
One free profile signs you in to both games and puts your name on the leaderboards. Signing up is optional: you can always play as a guest.
How a run works
- Start in the redYou land in a random city with $1,000 in your pocket, half of it borrowed from Buddles, a loan shark who charges interest every single day. Paying him back early is the first lesson.
- Trade the spreadEvery city sets its own prices and they move daily. Each market shows a price chart with the normal range shaded in. Buy near the bottom of the band, sell near the top, and do it in the city where your stock is scarce.
- Beat the clockYour rank is your net worth: cash plus bank. Reach the next threshold before the deadline and you are promoted, which raises how much you can carry and adds days to the calendar. Miss it and the run ends.
- Survive the streetGangs, police checkpoints, customs and your own loan sharks all want a cut. Fight, bribe or run, and spread your risk with banking, safe houses and couriers. A single bad flight can undo a week of work.
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Learn the game
Beginner's guide
Your first ten days in Drug Lord 3: reading the price chart, choosing a route, the rank ladder and when to borrow.
Read the guide →Fighting and weapons
How fights resolve, the five weapon classes, armour, concealment at airports, and when a bribe beats a bullet.
Read more →Shipping and property
Courier odds worked out day by day, safe houses, vehicles that skip the airport, and hiring a crew that pays for itself.
Read more →The 26 cities
Every city in Drug Lord 3 with its local gang, the gang's fighting trait and the weapons its black market sells cheap.
See the cities →FAQ
Saving, accounts, Dope Dollars, ads, Endless Mode, playing on iPhone, and how to delete your data.
Read the FAQ →What's new
Drug Lord 3 updates every week or two. Here is everything that changed, release by release.
See the updates →Latest updates
Drug Lord 2 in your browser
The classic is now playable at druglord.co.za/2, on any phone or computer, including iPhone and iPad.
Rookie days and day milestones
New players get extra days on their first runs, and passing big net worth milestones now adds a day to every future run.
Invite friends
Every account now has an invite code. A friend who signs up with it gets a Dope Dollar welcome bonus, and you are paid too once they start earning reputation.
A note on the theme. These are strategy games about a fictional underworld, in the tradition of the trading games people have played on computers since the 1980s. The economy, the gangs and the events are invented and are not modelled on real prices or real people. Both games open with a plain warning, and we mean it: real drugs ruin real lives. The games contain crime themes and cartoon violence, and they are not made for children.