The tutorial for the first game does require you to kill three gang members, but afterwards you are given a house and can play tourist in the city.
In the second one I did a pacifist playthrough. Escaping from prison was fairly difficult and I had to lower the difficulty to the easiest setting, but I managed.
Then I just punched parking meters to get seed money and hit the casino. Saved when I won, loaded when I lost.
After that I bought up all the properties (Player housing, mechanics shops) and essentially lived life as a wealthy degenerate gambler.
It took quite a long time to download the digital edition of the game, but it runs better than the disc copy ever did.
The second game is also on sale for around two dollars US. I had to redeem a $5.00 gift card with my points, so I might buy that one too.
The DLC packs are not on sale.