
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
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
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 → 0.8/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.
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Reviews
Themes across 815 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
任务必须做?不做就掉好感?我是副手的爹吗还是他老大?和别人火拼我的人会受伤,对方不会?
Спустя 150 часов... я в восторге. Тематика картелей из 80-х, необычный комиксный стиль персонажей, весьма интересное управление ресурсами. Я однозначно рекомендую попробововать эту игру...даже несмотря на то,что поддержка игры полностью прекращена(издатель закрыл контору разработчиков. Больше никаких обновлений)
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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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 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.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Didn't click. I only got it to play a specific fantasy, but the actual gameplay (mechanics, UX) immediately gets in the way of that. So nope.
It needs updates, theres so many little quality of life things that need to be done. It was enjoyable for 20 hours but because of the tedious little things, cant recommend it unless you're really bored. Also combat needs to be reworked. Endurance is designed to keep you from fighting, even with hospitals. Part of the tycoon part of the game is alright once you figure it out. That is pretty good for the most part Doubt I played efficiently but the cash kept coming in!
Kurz gesagt, das Spiel ist einfach nur frustrierend. Das Micromanagement ist super anstrengend und verbugt, Verarbeitungsgebäude produzieren nicht, obwohl die Lager voll sind. Schwarzgeld wird nicht anständig zwischen den Residenzen verteilt. Events werden getriggert obwohl die Vorrausetzungen nicht erfüllt sind. Die eigenen Capos werden ständig abtrünnig, egal wie gut man sie bezahlt. Razzien werden getriggert obwohl das Fahndungslevel auf Null steht. Fazit: Das Spiel ist Müll!
Чем дольше играешь тем больше багов получаешь: 1) из-за случайного события, которое предлагает тебе получить новобранца у тебя в "семье" может быть больше участников, чем закладывалось в логику игры 2) если твой город осаждают законники и в ходе защиты одного из твоих лейтенантов ранят - его не получится эвакуировать, потому что он стоит на дороге, а не в здании. даже когда осада кончится 3) отсутствует возможность перевозки лейтенантами только части денег, но регулярно. т.е. я могу ему приказать чтобы он вывозил все деньги из резиденции, но не могу сделать так, чтобы он вывозил деньги если их больше чем ХХХХ 4) игра про менеджмент и логистику, но чтобы реально понять сколько у тебя производится и как правильно построить цепочку приходится сидеть с калькулятором и высчитывать протыкивая каждое здание 5) грузовики могут вывезти 1 опиум, но не взять забитые овощи. это жутко выводит, приходится делать 2-3 склада и 4-5 компаний которые везут по 1-2 единицы грузов to sum up: игру релизнули, но видимо сами не поиграли. на ранних этапах мне нравилось, но чем дальше идет игра тем больше темя **** баги
good game get to uses my real life experince in game
Показалось не интересной и скучной, не рекомедную :(
I must say when I first saw this game I was like NOPE. but then I tried it and I could not stop playing it. 4 years later and I still find myself coming back to play it. I absolutlely ADORE this game. I keep praying to the gaming gods for a Cartel Tycoon 2 with more cities more, countries (not to encurage drug dealing) but more types of drugs. please @Moon Moose & @tinyBuild could we get a sequel to this Amazing underated hidden gem. seriously, simply put it is an amazing game
god it could of been so good if it was not so micro. i don't think i would recommend maby if they made a second game with a better connections and more focus and story and being a capo
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