SangoCity is a free open-world game you play in your browser. You land at the airport of a big African city built street by street, with its markets, its boulevards, its river and its bridges — and nobody knows you. Take your first fares, buy your first taxi, make a name quartier by quartier: the road to Boss starts here.
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You start with nothing, driving a car that isn’t yours. Every job done well builds your name in the quartier; every rank is earned with what the city knows about you.
Nobody knows you. You drive your route’s car on versement: every day, the owner takes his cut.
Your first vehicle. The versement stops, and the garage becomes yours.
A quartier where your name counts, three contacts who trust you, a second vehicle and proof of your trade.
Your drivers, your rank, a rival in the next quartier.
From the river to the airport, every quartier: the city knows your name.
Ndongo, Mama Rose and Steve do the same job, each their own way. Choosing who drives is choosing a story.
Every road, street name and building comes from OpenStreetMap, the free map made by the people who live there. The market is a few minutes by taxi from the boulevards, and the far bank is waiting at the end of the bridge.
Ministries and old façades. Wide boulevards, mango trees, the Palace of the Bell Kings.
Business by day, bars by night. The boulevard lights up after 7 pm and the benskins never sleep.
The popular quarter, the market, the red laterite. Where a street is a place, not a corridor.
The big crossing, over the river. The best sunset in town.
The far bank. Roadside markets, lorries waiting, the city carrying on across the river.
You land here. A terminal, a runway, and a taxi waiting at the drop-off.
Figures read from the game’s map at every update. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Jobs come from real addresses on the map. The bakery sends bread, the hardware store sends cement, the pharmacy sends medicine. Every job asks you to make a choice.
A parcel from one address to another, in one piece.
The choice Fast and rough, or slow and clean?
Hailed from the kerb — « Akwa, 350! ». Five seats, each rider to their own door, each paying as they get out.
The choice In what order? Their patience won’t wait.
Follow a car without being spotted.
The choice How much of a gap? A yellow taxi blends into traffic. A Cybertruck does not.
Gates across the city, and every gate buys back time.
The choice Which line do you take?
Some days the city hands you a funeral cortège: cars behind you, a pace to hold.
The choice Keep everyone together without dragging.
A market mama sends you for her goods: plantain from the landing, cloth from the other market.
The choice Her price — haggle, or don’t.
On foot, a sack on your shoulder: rice from the market to the shop, cement from the hardware store to the building site.
The choice Fifty kilos — no running. Fall, and the sack falls with you.
A sack to carry to someone in the quartier — sometimes for an elder who can no longer carry it.
The choice In one piece and on time, and your name grows.
The call-box sends you running: a message and phone credit to a door in the quartier.
The choice You run, nothing on your shoulder — before the call goes cold.
Thirteen kinds of cargo, each as fragile as it sounds. Trays of eggs forgive nothing; sacks of cement forgive almost everything.
A vehicle that wins everywhere is not a garage. Each one here decides three things: what you can load, how many passengers you take, and how much you stand out when you’re tailing someone.
| Vehicle | Seats | Cargo | Blends in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow taxiThe city’s taxi. Invisible everywhere, slow everywhere. | 4 | small, medium | |
| Benskin (moto-taxi)A motorbike. Quick, nimble, and carries one bag. | 1 | small | |
| HiaceEight seats. The pick-up job’s vehicle. | 8 | small, medium, large | |
| SaloonBalanced. Good everywhere, great nowhere. | 4 | small, medium | |
| Pick-upA flatbed. Cement, generators, pallets. | 3 | small, medium, large | |
| 4×4Fast and safe. People notice it. | 5 | small, medium, large | |
| MercedesComfortable. Everyone looks to see who’s inside. | 4 | small, medium | |
| CybertruckThere’s only one in the city. Everybody knows. | 4 | small, medium, large |
Three people, three ways of doing the same job. Nobody is best at everything: Steve is fastest on foot, Mama Rose is kindest to the cargo, Ndongo goes everywhere unseen.
Thirty years behind a yellow wheel. He knows the shortcuts, the police and the price of a fare. Nobody notices him, and that is exactly what he sells.
Their vehicle: Yellow taxi
She loads, unloads and reloads out of Marché Congo every morning. What leaves whole arrives whole — she saw the pothole before you did.
Their vehicle: Pick-up
Home for six months with a licence, trainers and no patience. He drives fast, walks fast, and the whole quarter already knows his name.
Their vehicle: Mercedes
SangoCity keeps living when you stop. There is an hour, a weather, a radio, and people on the pavements.
The sun rises over the hills and sets over the river. At night the street lights come on and the streets change.
The downpour comes, the road gets wet, the tyres let go. The laterite turns dark red.
Press F: open the door, walk, climb into another vehicle. The last metres of a delivery are on foot.
MBOA Découvertes plays live on the car radio, on the same clock for everyone.
Climb aboard for a tour of the city, or take the controls yourself.
Engine, tyres, wind and street are synthesised from the physics, not played from a file.
Keyboard on a computer, fingers on a phone. The arrow keys do the same as W, A, S and D. Sound starts with your first key press.
Turn your phone sideways.
To become the Boss of SangoCity. You arrive with nothing, in a car on versement; every job done well builds your name in the quartier. Buy your first vehicle, earn people’s trust and climb the ranks, from newcomer to Boss. Ndongo, Mama Rose and Steve each have their own road. The last ranks, with your own drivers and your own rank, are coming soon.
Yes. The game is completely free: no account, no purchases, no ads.
No. SangoCity runs in your browser: open sangocity.com and press Play. A recent browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) is all you need. You can also add it to your home screen.
Yes, with touch controls, holding your phone sideways. On a computer, the keyboard gives the best driving.
The streets, their names, the buildings and the landmarks come from OpenStreetMap. SangoCity makes them its own city, built for the game; building heights come from Google Open Buildings 2.5D, measured from satellite imagery, and are estimated where there is no measurement.
Bonanjo and its boulevards, Akwa and its nights, New Bell and its market, Bonabéri on the far bank, and many more, joined by the bridges and the main roads. One city, with no loading screens between neighbourhoods.
English. French is there too: open the game’s ☰ menu and pick it under Language — your choice is kept on your device. This site is in English and in French.
No — it moves forward every week. The city grows, the jobs change, and everything you see here is taken from the game as it is today.
SangoCity is made by the SangoImmo team, for everyone who grew up on the streets of an African city, or who left them.