The core gameplay follows a "tycoon" or property management structure, similar in mechanics to games like RollerCoaster Tycoon but applied to a brutal historical setting.
In May 1991, The New York Times reported on the discovery of these games in Europe, noting they were part of a larger trend of roughly 140 games with similar neo-Nazi themes.
A later Windows version titled KZ Manager Millennium (also known as the Hamburg Edition) was developed in Java, making it platform-independent. Gameplay and Mechanics