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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.
Cartel Tycoon is a top-down, rts and resource management game
developed by Moon Moose
and published by tinyBuild.
Released on July 26th 2022 is available only on Windows.
It has received 3,536 reviews of which 2,699 were positive and 837 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.85€ on Eneba.
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- OS *: Windows 7 and up
- Processor: i5 and up
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated
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Game is so fun overall - but the combat sucks. I wish if it had more depth and something to utilize in terms of combat, rather than just a simple clash. Can recommend if you want to have fun from the production and smuggling part. But don't expect a fair or fun combat system, as I mentioned.
The game is kind of interesting but lacks polish. 1. Inconsistency. Dirty money is sometimes called cash. Why use two terms? Also, dirty money is sometimes white and the other times yellow. 2. Encourage micro-management. The behavior of warehouses is that trucks deliver goods from farms to the warehouse, and then deliver goods from the warehouse to factories. Why can't trucks directly deliver goods from farms to factories? This design is stupid and causes inefficiency of warehouses. If the player is a perfectionist, he has to micro-manage. He can order a lieutenant to deliver these goods and choose the destination manually. If you go down this route, you save upkeep of a warehouse and the operation is tedious. 3. Unable to plan ahead. As of instructions to lieutenants, you have to ask a lieutenant to move, when he's arrived, then ask him to deliver. The game should allow players to chain commands, for example, move to A and carry X to B when the lieutenant is still on the way. As of construction, you can't plan buildings and cancel buildings. One trick is to use dirty money but it isn't obvious. You can't plan roads and cancel roads even in a paused state. 4. Construction of roads is strange. In other games, such as Tropico (6), you merely drag the cursor or point in order to build a road, but in Cartel Tycoon you have to click each segments. Segments don't curve themselves. 5. Too many clicks. Constuction of a long road requires a massive number of clicks, as well as passing dialogues. Isn't it so difficult to have a show all button to reveal all lines in a dialogue? 6. Asymmetric designs. NPC gangs only raids you, but they do not raid each other. As of combats, if you lose, your lieutenant in the place dies. If an NPC team loses, it merely loses one power point, which effectively means the NPC team consists lieutenants of power 1. Your cartel hires lieutenants, but NPC cartels do not such concept. Your lieutenants get tired after a combat, so they can't fight again immediately; but an NPC cartel can come over to protect another place immediately after a combat. These Asymmetric desings are disappointing.
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
It gets really intense in story mode. You will need to save often and replay to adjust your strategy based on previous failures. You will feel frustrated. There are some game mechanics that will annoy you, but if you are stubborn like me - you will finally succeed. And be glad you made an effort.
I do recommend Cartel Tycoon. At its heart, it's a resource management game - but the atmosphere and theme set it apart from other similar games. It's fun to build the supply chains, and the game is quite realistic to the reality of drug cartels in Central/South America. The soundtrack is great, the graphics are (IMO) beautiful, and some of the quests provide some fun moments. This game isn't without flaws, though. For starters, there are lots of mana bars. You don't want to fill the Terror bar, otherwise more powerful law enforcement agencies will come after you; and you do want instead to fill the Loyalty bar, so that you can different bonuses. Each of your lieutenants (the agents you control on the map) have a loyalty indicator, however. So does every single gang. The game in part then becomes a wack-a-mole of filling and emptying various bars, which takes away from the experience of managing a drug cartel. Sometimes, especially in the early game, having gangs and authorities attacking you feels punishing. Again, this is realistic, but it does feel like the game is coming at you just for trying to set up your operations. This becomes more manageable as you earn more money to fill in the Loyalty bar and keep the Terror bar empty. At the end of my last match, I never had to deal with anything worse than the second-lowest law enforcement agency. Also, there is only one map. And some of the mechanics should be better explained. For example, by resisting the police, rival gang loyalty increases. Kinda makes sense, but I discovered at the end of my last run. At the end of the day, however, this is a solid game. The creators clearly read about this topic, and it shows. It gave me quite a few hours of fun managing my own personal drug cartel, and seeing my supply chains work and the money rake in was quite satisfying. All in all, this is a recommend from me.
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Cartel Tycoon is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
No, Cartel Tycoon is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Cartel Tycoon received 2,699 positive votes out of a total of 3,536 achieving a rating of 7.41.
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Cartel Tycoon was developed by Moon Moose and published by tinyBuild.
Yes, Cartel Tycoon is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Cartel Tycoon is not playable on MacOS.
No, Cartel Tycoon is not playable on Linux.
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No, Cartel Tycoon does not support VR.
Cartel Tycoon is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 7 DLCs available for Cartel Tycoon. Explore additional content available for Cartel Tycoon on Steam.
No, Cartel Tycoon does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Cartel Tycoon does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Cartel Tycoon is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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