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 → 0.5/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% | — | $781.5K |
| $44.99 | 532ratings | 69% | — | not modelled | |
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It's a good game, but it's very buggy and some of the mechanics are either poorly explained (if explained at all) or just plain broken.
I really hope that Moon Moose follows up with a sequel to Cartel Tycoon. There's a lot the game gets right. The art is excellent, the various capos and gang members are fun and the cartel hierarchy is an interesting concept. However the core gameplay loop just isn't very fun. The game is a resource management/supply chain management simulator at its heart and while these type of games are literally about moving A and B to C so you can make D and combine that with E and so on - this aspect of Cartel Tycoon is just more tedious than anything and never really works smoothly. It quickly devolves into a mess of inscrutable connections between farms, warehouses, "transport companies", etc and you essentially can never have a "perfect" balance of these things. Which would be fine, that could be part of the game, but the way things end up breaking seems arbitrary. For instance, the trucks that pick up and deliver items from your warehouses and onto the next step in the supply chain have to literally go pick up, bring back to the warehouse, then leave again to deliver items to the next building. And you're watching this going.... OK can we just deliver to the next building directly? OR why not have trucks picking up and trucks delivering at the same time? Even better - If warehouses could facilitate direct deliveries along the supply chain, and only actively store items when a backlog occurred, I think the game would feel a lot more fluid. As it stands you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to optimize things before basically giving up. The various story campaigns of the game also feel very samey. You're on the same map (one additional was added with the DLC) and the game essentially cheats to provide a challenge - the police, etc, will spawn out of nowhere even when they shouldn't based on the current "terror level". Also the various dialogues you need to slog through just end up becoming a chore. Every conversation with another character is this long winded affair that is maybe fun the first time - but these conversations repeat, often. I think the devs maybe focused so much on the "flavor" of the game, the themes etc, that they neglected that games actually need a fun gameplay loop at their heart. Cartel Tycoon is *almost* there.
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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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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 820 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Dead game, keep your money. I had such high hopes this would be a fun game. This could have been such a fantastic tycoon game with a cool setting, however, it is an unfun micromanaging mess with little to no explanation to what any of the icons mean. "Hey! Your building has an icon over it that needs to be dealt with." "What needs to be done?" silence If there were any tool tips whatsoever, I don't think I would be so harsh. Don't buy this even on sale, there are much better tycoon games out there.
Heavily overpriced with how little game play or content in general there is and how simple the game is. If you hypothetically paid 10% of the price, you might not regret the purchase even if you didn't like it.
Fun but dev studio got shut down so no more updates :(
It's fun in short bursts. The longer I've played in a scenario the more bugs, limitations and lack of final polish became apparent. There is a lot of quality of life options missing, and transporting goods becomes a pain after a while. It would be lovely if there would be more updates. I've spent most of my play time when the game was still in early access. It sometimes still feels like it's unfinished.
This game inspired me to create my own narcotics trade in real life just like my best mate Pablo! Update: I got arrested, cops are no fun :(
Задумка хорошая, но реализация так себе. Главная беда в том, что другие картели не играют по тем же правилам что игрок. Они просто есть на карте. Они просто усиливаются, когда растёт твой картель. Они ничего не создают и ничего не продают, у них вообще нет никакой работающей инфраструктуры. Играть с этим неинтересно. В какой-то момент я нашёл стратегию: идёшь к соседнему картелю и заключаешь сделку на что-то дорогое. Продаёшь, расплачиваешься грязными деньгами. Так как на оплату товара даётся прилично времени, то можно на момент сделки даже не иметь нужной суммы - по мере продажи будешь расплачиваться. Продавая через какой-нибудь речной порт или кукурузник, маскировать товар не нужно. Ну и всё, теперь и игроку не нужна никакая инфраструктура, кроме точки сбыта да точки отмывания денег. Не надо продумывать расположение производств и складов, не надо ни за что воевать, не надо по копейке деньги копить. Просто покупаешь что-то дорогое прям из воздуха у соседей, перепродаёшь и купаешься в бабле
优点 1.像这样的游戏很少，新颖 2.拥有犯罪帝国的感觉很好 3.前期建立与中期发展的感觉很棒 缺点 1.后期无聊 2.规划方式难受，不如格子 3.战斗系统简陋，只是叠数字，没有战略 建议 1.丰富后期内容，如加入竞选系统（别他妈是DLC） 2.更改下规划系统，就像天际线小格子那样的就行 3.增加可加入人数，14个人不够 4.丰富战斗系统，比如增加战斗技能（像增加耐力减少战斗力） 5.增加警察战斗力，搞点卧底之类的 6.增加城市作用，比如城市被打本地警察会防守，敌人路过可以伏击 7.加强优化 8.让走私点尽可能自动化，别老让副手干活
Juego divertidísimo con un potencial enorme que lamentablemente no recibirá más actualizaciones porque cerró el estudio para siempre. Dejando un juego incompleto con varias ideas en el tintero como el modo multijugador entro otras cosas. Siendo honesto, a pesar de lo bueno que es, no recomiendo comprarlo porque se llevarán a casa un juego inacabado que nunca más recibirá actualizaciones y cuya comunidad terminará muriendo también. En todo caso recomiendo jugarlo usando el método de Jack Sparrow pues no veo la necesidad de inyectarles dinero a un estudio que no trabaja más en el juego. Salu2
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