Cartel Tycoon
Give it 7 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (46%); after 20h it's 1 in 6 (16%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 65% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 3,851 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 27h for positive, 10.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (65.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (19)
story milestone ending side
- Our Man Hire your first lieutenant 100%
- Take-Off Upgrade a building to the next tier. 98%
- Hokey-Pokey Pack and sell some illegal goods. 75%
- That was fucking base Complete the tutorial. 58%
- Bad Trip Quit the game using ALT+F4 50%
- Didn't Miss A Single One Accept every expiring event from your Lieutenants over 6 months of in-game time. 43%
- Camellos Send Lieutenants through a smuggling point with goods 100 times. 41%
- Architect of Fortunes Launch the game with custom settings in Sandbox mode. 26%
- Bite the Blow Take resources from a village by force. 22%
- I'm Going To Call You Kitty Change a Lieutenant's nickname 11%
- Don't Let Mom Know You're A Druglord Play 10 hours total between the hours of midnight and 6 AM 8.9%
- Spreading Fear Give your Lieutenants 10 assassination orders. 8.4%
- Safe Pair of Hands Complete 50 successful deals with your Lieutenants. 3.5%
- Follow the Money Earn $1,000,000 of dirty money selling dried cannabis in Survival mode. 3.4%
- Spread Sell every drug via all checkpoints. 3.1%
- Operation Odessa Use a submarine to transport 5,000 units of cocaine. 2.3%
- Pampered Life Unlock every type of residence 1.8%
- Iron Lady Play Sandbox mode on Hard with a female Capo and take over every region without changing Capos. 1.5%
- Sense Of Style Have 7 Lieutenants in your cartel who are wearing cool shirts 1.2%