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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Prices
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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 → 1/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 | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 818 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The game is ok if not limited. Any grand plans of taking over the whole world and selling billions upon billions of drugs are mute. All of the export options require lieutenants to move any kind of volume. But you are limited in how many lieutenants you have and how many you can manage to keep happy. Then there are the money laundering limitations. You can only clean so much money, and there is only so much room to bury money. The seaports and regular airport are extremely under powered. A seaport can export 40 chickens packed with drugs every 4 days. The same quantity as a river port. So your main option has to be the aerodome which is the only "port" you can build. These take a ♥♥♥♥ ton of "FLAT" land. Plantations are completely useless. Regular farms produce more in the same space without the stupid flat land requirement. The whole food factory for dog food research line? Useless. I certainly got a few hours of fun for my $8, but I wouldn't give this one super high marks either.
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Every market we collect.
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 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 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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| not modelled |
| $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 823 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
I played the game and really enjoyed it. Although there isn't a "Create-A-Narco" feature, I do like that you can edit the nickname at least to give it a personalized look. DLC's are on sale as of 11.27.24 so I definitely have to get it to support the developers. I wish they did add more Steam Achievements.
Please work on the Translation. Tbh i was quite confused when i had to bring in days 150 opium and deliver 500 (0). right? right. Also after i had brought the money (after figuring out that i was buying opium) my guys stayed in their city and immediately startet a gang war. what the hell. Just polish it a little more please.
ADICTIVO....
watched two seasons of Narcos again, here I am.
I just wish it was fun.
Esse jogo é muito bom, realmente me faz querer criar um cartel de drogas ilegais
6.5/10
gameplay 8/10 soundtrack 11/10 graphics ui and HUD 9/10 + not too hard to learn.
Gra ma spory potęcjał i to wiem od dawna tylko jest duży minus brak Polskiego języka.
Active players
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Players by region
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