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Drug Lord 3
A global trading strategy game where the market is the main enemy. Buy where a product is plentiful, fly it to where it is scarce, and climb from Wannabe to El Jefe before your calendar runs out. Between flights you'll juggle loan sharks, gangs, customs, couriers and a rival who wants your spot at the top.
The game in one minute
Every run starts the same way: $1,000 in your pocket, $500 of it owed to a loan shark, and a deadline. Each day you can trade in the local market, move to another city, or deal with whatever the street throws at you. Flying costs a day. Waiting costs a day. Interest on your debt is charged every day.
Your rank is set by your net worth, meaning cash plus bank. Each rank has a threshold. Cross it and you are promoted: you can carry more, you have more health, and the deadline moves back five days. There are twelve ranks, and the money involved grows by roughly seven to nine times at each step. The first goal is a few thousand dollars. The last is half a trillion.
What makes Drug Lord 3 more than a spreadsheet is everything that gets in the way. Gangs ambush you, customs searches your bags, couriers lose loads, and a rival lord grows their own empire alongside yours. Every one of those systems has a counter you can buy, hire or plan around, and choosing which ones to invest in is the real strategy.
What you'll be doing
Read the market
Every city sets its own prices and they change daily. The chart behind each product shades the normal range, so you can see at a glance whether today's price is a bargain or a trap. Rumours and paid intel hint at spikes before they happen.
Travel the world
26 cities on six continents. Fares come from the real distance between airports, so a short hop like Amsterdam to London costs a couple of hundred dollars, while long-haul flights cost thousands. Some routes close for the day, others run late, and customs is always watching.
Climb twelve ranks
From Wannabe to Street Punk, Runner, Pusher and Dealer, all the way up to Kingpin and El Jefe. As you rise you trade in bigger units at bulk prices, and the threats you face get heavier.
Fight, bribe or run
Turn-based fights where the weapon class matters as much as the damage. Shotguns punish small groups, belt-fed guns pin a crowd down, rockets hit everyone. Not every fight is worth winning: a bribe or a fast car is often cheaper.
Build a crew
Hire fighters city by city. Each one has their own health, weapon and perks, such as discounts, cheaper flights or better bribes. Crew members level up as they win, and you can take more of them on as your rank grows.
Move product without flying
Ship loads by courier. The cheap ones are risky, and the odds are rolled every day the load is moving. Or buy a vehicle that drives, sails or flies private, skipping the airport entirely.
Grow an empire
Safe houses
Buy one property per city, from a trailer to a hospital, and keep stock there out of reach of customs and police. Upgrade the hiding spots for room. Better homes also speed up your recovery after a fight.
Front businesses
A car wash, a taxi firm, a nightclub, a casino. Fronts raise the daily interest your bank balance earns, but each one runs into its limits as you grow, so you keep trading up.
Jobs, rivals and dilemmas
Clients offer delivery contracts with deadlines and fat margins. Random dilemmas make you choose between a gamble and a sure thing. And a named rival lord climbs alongside you. Beat them in a showdown, or face them in person at the Reckoning near the end of your run.
Play your way
Competitive Mode
The game as designed. Every run has a deadline, every promotion buys time, and your best runs go on the global leaderboard. New players get some extra "rookie days" on their first runs, and passing big net worth milestones permanently adds a day to future runs.
Endless Mode
An optional unlock that removes the calendar, nothing more. Build at your own pace and see how far the numbers go. Endless runs are never ranked, so the leaderboards stay fair.
Reputation and challenges
Every finished competitive run earns reputation points (RP) based on your score. Stake them on a challenge run that other players take on blind, or accept someone else's challenge. The reputation leaderboard shows who backs up their talk.
Free to play, honestly
The whole game is free. Dope Dollars (ÐÐ) buy conveniences like extra days or a revive. You can earn them by inviting friends or by choosing to watch a short ad, and you can also buy them. Ads only ever play when you tap to watch one for a reward.
Where to play
In your browser: open druglord.co.za/3 on any phone, tablet or computer. On a phone you can add it to your home screen and it opens full screen like an app. This is also the way to play on iPhone and iPad.
On Android: get Drug Lord 3 from Google Play.
Sign in with the same free profile on each device to keep your name and scores together. New to the game? Start with the beginner's guide.