Cartel Tycoon

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Cartel Tycoon

Short description

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.

Developer
Moon Moose
Publisher
tinyBuild
Release
Tue, Jul 26, 2022
Price
$29.99
$7.49
75%
best price ever
Reviews
2,806
Positive
76%
Followers
n/a
Owners (estimated)
200K – 500K
Concurrent players
73
Genres
Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Features
Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support
Tags
Top-Down RTS Resource Management Atmospheric Management Survival Strategy Building Economy Sandbox Simulation Soundtrack City Builder Base-Building Singleplayer Agriculture Colony Sim RPG Action Rogue-lite
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$5.1msomewhere between $5.1m and $5.8m · roughly 200K–224K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $25.72, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 14% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

Tracking started Aug 10, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.

167 data points going back to Mar 1, 2021 lie outside the 90-day window of your plan. Plus shows the complete history.

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Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Darkwood Darkwood Acid Wizard Studio 2 titles 3 − RTS − Resource Management − Management + Horror + Survival Horror + Dark $19.99 22,465 95% Thu, Aug 17, 2017 $12.7m
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Alien Marauder Alien Marauder Vexan Studio first game 3 − Resource Management − Atmospheric − Management + Early Access + Colony Sim + Strategy $19.99 324 61% Wed, Nov 17, 2021 $288k
$128k – $2m
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