Saints Row beginner’s guide, tips, and tricks

polygon.com:

Saints Row’s 2022 reboot takes you to the city of Santo Ileso, a small open world that’s filled with skyscrapers, run-down buildings, rival gangs, and deserts. This new Saints Row feels like it’s been ripped straight from the 2010s, but it does have some modern bits and bobs to add some complexity.

In this beginner’s guide, we’ll take you through eight key tips for becoming the best Boss you possibly can for your burgeoning Saints.

Saints Row is a big sandbox game, and part of the fun is running around and doing stupid shit with ridiculous toys. But in order to get some of those ridiculous toys, you’ll need to unlock new tools, weapons, vehicles, and customization options for your gang.

These upgrades primarily come from progressing the game’s story, so delay your sandbox shenanigans for a few hours and push through some missions first.

You’ll eventually be able to throw around a lot of cash inSaints Row to buy or upgrade cars and weapons. But you’ll be a bit strapped for cash when the game first starts out, and each individual mission or side hustle only gives you a couple of grand.

Save your cash as much as you can until you unlock the Empire system, which allows you to place Ventures all over the city. These Ventures passively rake in the cash for you, eventually allowing you to spend all the money you want on fancy duds or a supped up car.

Upgrades vary wildly in cost in Saints Row, from only a couple hundred dollars for an early gun to nearly $2 million for the late-game Ventures. So, if you want to have it all and live it up as the Boss of the Saints, you’re gonna need a lot of cheddar. Luckily, you can make cash effortlessly using the Venture system we mentioned in the tip above.

Passive money from Ventures