Cartel Tycoon
Skip · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was November 2024. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Foundation ($34.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Desynced ($29.99, scores 35).
18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 246 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
65% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
135 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cartel Tycoon scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1220140/cartel-tycoonReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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