Kleptocrat the game

03/09/2020

Kleptocrat is now available for Android! Get it now!

12/13/2018

Rumor has it...that an Android version of Kleptocrat is now in the works!

Like and leave a comment if you're interested!

10/16/2018

Kleptocrat won the IndieCade 2018 Jury Prix/Special Recognition award!!

Kleptocrat was the brainchild of Jim Mintz, together with his brother, John, who saw the patterns in the corruption that were being done by kleptocrats, and understood that the only way these travesties could be brought to light was by expressing and playing them as a game.

And that's where BumbleBear came in. We could not have asked for a better partner to translate these ideas into exquisite game form. Many thanks to:
Joshua DeBonis
Jyro Blade
James Proctor
Nik Mikros
Jessica Fiorini
Garrett Lee
Harry Bogosian
Alyssa Manes
Jack Mintz

We will work hard on making these happen!

Stay tuned and thanks for your support and for believing in us!

08/30/2018

Kleptocrat is honored to be a nominee for IndieCade 2018! We will be out in LA for the Festival on Oct 11-13! Come say hi!

https://www.indiecade.com/games/selected/kleptocrat-how-to-hide-dirty-money

11/03/2017

Did we forget to tell you that Kleptocrat made it into the pages of The New Yorker? Mark Singer wrote an excellent Talk of the Town piece on us in the Oct 30 issue!

A private investigator and a New School professor have created a game in which players must launder their ill-gotten riches without getting caught.

10/12/2017

Whatever you do, do not let Al Coppola run your small country. Can you top his score of 30 terms??

Chris Wallace
Joshua DeBonis
Jyro Blade

09/28/2017

This is the best kind of review of the game: John Templon of BuzzFeed News actually played the game pretty extensively, and drew some excellent insights from it -- the kind we were hoping for!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/how-to-launder-billions-in-5-easy-steps?utm_term=.px2ya7zG2 #.wjblpBOL8

The new game Kleptocrat lets you see if you could plunder a country and get away with it.

09/19/2017

You know how you pour your passion, blood, sweat, and tears into something and put it out in the world and it feels like very few people really understand what you're trying to do? Well, we are lucky that Bill Coffin, the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week (a leading publication for the compliance industry), gets us.

He knows money laundering, compliance, and the ins and outs of the industry, plus he's a fan of games, so when he wrote this review yesterday it was extremely gratifying to read his insights.

https://www.complianceweek.com/blogs/coffin-on-compliance/shall-we-play-a-game #.WcEejdN97UJ

09/14/2017

Nice shoutout from (Pulitzer Prize winner) Jesse Eisinger on Twitter:

“Love this game from Jim Mintz where you get to play kleptocrat. Wish Trump wasn't trying the real-life version: https://t.co/o1Uxowmlsx”

09/11/2017

Kleptocrat featured on the Wall Street Journal's Risk & Compliance page today!

The Mintz Group created the game "Kleptocrat," which puts the player in the shoes of a corrupt official seeking to enjoy the fruits of the money taken from government coffers.