You must sit and wait for a mission to finish before starting another. In the cases where you cannot, there is typically something else to keep you occupied. In most RPGs of this nature, you’ll perform quests instantly at a cost of energy. Even this early, however, the issues begin to appear.
Each quest takes a period of time to complete, and consumes rechargeable energy. To play, you visit The Godfather and accept missions from him and his cronies within his personal lounge. You’re just a criminal because the game says you are. 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.
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. 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. German developer Goodgame Studios is hoping to revive a slowly declining genre on Facebook with Goodgame Mafia.
