
The city includes more vertical areas with tools that the player will be able to use to take advantage of that. After taking over a district, players are able to use empty lots found there to launch illegitimate businesses with legitimate fronts to help finance and benefit the gang.

The game's setting, the fictional city of Santo Ileso, is broken down into nine districts, which players will have to work towards taking over in the name of their gang, The Saints, earning certain benefits in the process. Outside of missions, players can freely roam the game's world and complete optional side activities. Similarly to previous installments in the series, Saints Row is an open world action game with third-person shooter elements where players complete missions-linear scenarios with set objectives-to progress through the main story. In this gameplay screenshot, the player is traversing the city of Santo Ileso on motorcycle. Due to the game's reception, Volition's parent company Embracer Group announced that Volition would become part of Gearbox Entertainment. It ultimately received mixed reviews from critics for a large number of technical issues, the writing, and elements of the gameplay feeling dated. Following its announcement in August 2021, Saints Row was met with mixed reactions from fans, with some expressing concern for the game's tone. The developers of Saints Row intended for the game to return to a mixture of drama and comedy that had been present in earlier games in the series. A cooperative online multiplayer mode is also included, allowing two players to play through the single-player campaign together while progressing in their own game. Outside of the main story, players can freely explore Santo Illeso and engage in several different side activities. Similarly to previous Saints Row titles, players control the gang's leader, nicknamed "the Boss", who features highly customizable traits. Players can fight enemies using a variety of firearms and other tools, and call in non-playable gang members to assist them. The game is played from a third-person view and its open world is navigated on-foot or by vehicle.

Set within the fictional city of Santo Ileso, loosely based on Las Vegas, the single-player story follows a group of four friends who start their own outlaw gang called The Saints, which they subsequently expand by seizing power from other criminal organizations in the city. It was released on Augfor PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Google Stadia.

It is a reboot of the Saints Row series, and the fifth main installment, following 2013's Saints Row IV. Saints Row is an action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver.
