Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.57/day in the week to Sep 14 → 0.83/day in the week after.
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $7.49−75% | 3.8Kreviews | 76% | — | $782.3K |
| $44.99 | 532ratings | 69% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
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Reviews
⭐ 10/10 – From Small-Time Dealer to Crime Lord in 3 Hours (or 3 Days, Who’s Counting?) ⭐ Cartel Tycoon is a management sim with a slightly illegal twist: build your empire, dodge law enforcement, and somehow keep your accountants alive while your rivals are probably plotting your demise. It’s like SimCity, but with more explosions, shady deals, and moral ambiguity. The gameplay is addictive. Supply chains, production lines, and bribing officials all mesh into a chaotic dance that feels both strategic and utterly ridiculous. One minute you’re calculating profits, the next you’re sending hit squads after competitors and wondering why your accountant is screaming again. The style is charmingly dark, the soundtrack keeps the tension high, and the humor sneaks in at just the right moments. It’s oddly satisfying to watch your little empire grow… until a rival sneaks in and ruins everything because of a single bad decision. If you like strategy, crime, and morally questionable decisions that make you laugh while also questioning your life choices, Cartel Tycoon delivers in full. Highly recommended. Build your empire, stay one step ahead, and maybe don’t get shot today.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.5/day in the week to Aug 5 → 0.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Turkish
| $29.99 |
| 159ratings |
| 74% |
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| $7.49−75% | 45ratings | 60% | — | not modelled |
| $29.99 | — | 89% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 822 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Great tycoon game where you get to play a gangster of the underworld, well worth getting.
The tutorial is boring af and just drones on and on. You have no idea when it's going to be complete.
Good game to kill some time, i played it on console and just started on a PC.
I have been on and off on this game ever since buying it. The biggest issue that I have with this game is that there is no save/load option aside from quitting the game. So if you mess up something, you're kinda screwed. I don't know if that was intentional or not to make it more difficult, but would be real swell if they could implement that in a potential update
Just no... Tempted for awhile looking at this and finally got it.. big mistake, its gotta be one of the worse RTS games out there. From the sound to just general layout of the buildings. Plus the added silliness is putting spanish into it when you have english selected. Boring and weird attempt at trying to be funny even on sale hang onto your money there is much much better out there
Unfortunately the game is buggy, making it not worth my time. Examples include: transport company randomly stops delivering, causing a max fill situation, or a river smuggling point doesn't count any of the products that are being delivered. The game could be fun, it is addictive to play; however, these bugs and many others simply makes this game not very good.
give me my money back
Игра класс , Купил её дважды :)
Close to being a decent game, but just misses the mark. No one wants to play the boring campaign and the solo modes leave a lot to be wished for.
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