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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 18.03.2021

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Cartel Tycoon spielt in einer fiktiven Version des Lateinamerika der 80er Jahre und erzählt die Geschichte einer Zeit, in der das Kokain von dort aus die USA und die gesamte Welt überschwemmte. Lächerlich reiche Drogenbosse herrschen über ihre glorreichen Imperien und schaffen tausende von Jobs, reißen zugleich aber die Unterwelt in einen Strudel der Gewalt hinab.

Errichte ein Imperium aus Drogenproduktion und Schmuggelketten, während du skrupellose Leutnants, staatliche Behörden und die öffentliche Meinung kontrollierst. Handle mit Marihuana, Kokain, Metamphetamin und legalen Gütern zur Tarnung deines Drogengeschäfts. Erobere angrenzende Regionen und lass deine Profite in die Höhe schnellen, um neue Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten und mächtige Forschungsoptionen freizuschalten.

Rivalisierende Gangs, die DEA, die Armee und sogar die CIA bedrohen dein florierendes Imperium. Der Tod ist unvermeidbar, aber nicht nach Ende. Wenn du das Zeitliche segnest (für Drogenbarone geht es immer weiter), benennst du deinen Nachfolger und erschaffst dein Imperium von Grund auf neu.

In Cartel Tycoon ist das Scheitern buchstäblich vorprogrammiert und Gewalt erzeugt neue Gewalt – aber einem gerissenen Drogenboss winken enorme Gewinne.

Freue dich auf eine Vielzahl an Spiel-Modi
Story-Modus: Wenn du in dutzende Stunden intensiver Geschichten aus diesem Spiel eintauchen möchtest. Hardcore-Permadeath-Survival-Modus: Für Spieler, die eine Herausforderung suchen. Hochgradig anpassbarer Sandbox-Modus: Wenn du nach eigenen Regeln spielen willst!

Hauptmerkmale

Vergrößere dein Imperium. Entwickle deinen bescheidenen landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb zu einem riesigen logistischen System, das Plantagen, Labore, Flugplätze und mehr umfasst.
Herrsche auf deine Art. Tycoon-Action in epischem Umfang mit Dutzenden von Upgrade-Pfaden und endlosen strategischen Kombinationen.
Der Tod ist unvermeidlich. Wenn dein Capo stirbt, befördere einen deiner einzigartigen Leutnants, um die Kontrolle zu übernehmen und dein Kartell weiter auszubauen.
Alles – und jeder – hat seinen Preis. Wasche dein hart verdientes Geld, um dein Imperium aufzubauen, die Treue deiner Leutnants aufrechtzuerhalten und korrupte Politiker zu bestechen.
Verteidige, was dir gehört. Lass dich nicht Behörden erwischen und lege dich auf dem Weg zum Reichtum mit rivalisierenden Kartellen an.
Endlose Wiederspielbarkeit. Entdecke ein dynamisches Erzählsystem mit Dutzenden einzigartiger Charaktere kombiniert mit grenzenlosem Sandbox-Gameplay.

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CPU: i5 and up
GFX: NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB
RAM: 4 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7 and up
HD: 5 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: Integrated
DX: Version 11
LANG: Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch, Französisch, Italienisch

CPU: i7 ~3 Ghz / Ryzen 7
GFX: NVIDIA GTX 1060
RAM: 8 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7 and up
HD: 5 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
SFX: Integrated
DX: Version 11
LANG: Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch, Französisch, Italienisch

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4735 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.11.21 18:17

GOOD GAME !!

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11039 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.11.21 22:49

Absolut super gemacht.
Kann ich jedem der gerne Aufbauspiele mag ans Herz legen.
Mit dem neusten Update zum Forschungsbaum kommt auch Tiefgang.
Ich denke von diesem Spiel kann man noch einiges erwarten.

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91 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.10.21 19:58

pls add achievements

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46 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.08.21 13:03

Schon ein sehr interessantes Spiel !

Mit ein verschiedene Moduse bietet das Spiel schon eine kleine Abwechslung.
Evt kommt noch dazu eine Multiplayer aber erst im späteren Verlauf.
Aus meiner sicht, ist der Einstieg leicht ins Spiel. Alles wird einen genau erklärt bspw auch durch die Missionen bekommt man eine Hilfestellung.
Grafik sieht sehr schick aus und die Musik ist sehr abwechslungsreich. Die Steuerung ist simpel und ähnelt sich auch sehr an anderen Spiel.

Wer gerne ein Drogen Baron sein möchte der wird sich mit dem Spiel anfreunden können :)
Freue mich schon auf weitere Updates, die mehr Abwechslung und Verbesserung bieten.
Bin mit den Spiel sehr zufrieden und kann es nur weiter Empfehlen !

Bitte achtet wann die Review geschrieben oder bearbeitet wurde !

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523 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.03.21 22:54

At the current state I cant recommend playing this game, there is too much wrong!
Examples:
Shortages of money due to laundering Bottleneck
Money is sometimes stuck at certain buildings and will such increase Terror
If once reached a certain terror level the attacks and searches wont stop even if terror level is back down again
I had issues with police raiding me every few seconds on x3 speed even though Terror was 0 at the time
The amount of Employees needed only to not loose influence is broken
Many Buildings etc still WIP and such a large part of the game is still missing

BUT:

Concept is really good
Early game ( before all those negative points have a big influence) is very fun to play
The Game will undoubtedly be a ton of fun once further developed and if the Balance is fixed.

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currently no long term fun but undoubtedly will be great as soon as it is a bit farther developed.

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622 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.03.21 17:38

Also es bockt sich(7 1/2 Stunden am Stück gezockt) aber es müssen dringend einige Sachen optimiert werden!! wie auch bugs müssen noch beseitigt werden. Am meisten stört mich denoch die wenigen Drogen arten die am Start sind. Hoffentlich kommt da noch was. Ich würde mir wünschen das es verschiedene Gras Sorten geben würde, Pilze oder zumindest mal Heroin usw. . Es hat wirklich viel Potenzial vor allem weil es von der Sorte nicht viel gibt mit dem Thema. Ich liebe es mit Drogen zu Handeln XD

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336 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.07.22 15:56

i played the game in closed alpha, the problem then was a lack of things to do. after 10hrs i stopped and now almost a year later i came back.
the developer expanded a lot in this regard, props to him and there is a lot to do in the game, but at this moment the game feels not well balanced at all or i dont understand how the game works.
i consider myself a good sim games player, but here i struggle even with progressing in main campaign(normal one). some missions seems impossible to achieve.Too many events happen at a time: you cant use ports for 30 days due to bad weather(to bad at the start you only get ports), enemy gang attacks you, terror rises, dea seizes your assests, you cant reclaim them because you dont earn money(ports blocked you remember?) you are constantly attacked by other gangs(too frequent imho) you need to lower the terror, by taking a hit to your loyalty and you cant raise loyalty because you need money in order to do so. i tried the campaign 3 times and i got further and further each and every time, still it feels more like a trial and error game(which is horrible for its genre) like there is only one correct way to play the game.
core gameplay is amazing, setting is brilliant.
right now i cant recommend it though.

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3284 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.07.22 17:04

A lot of potential. Needs come quality of life enhancements to avoid all the micro managing. Early Access but actively being developed and good overall.

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794 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.06.22 04:55

Honestly, I really really want to give this a thumbs up, but the negatives are far outweighing the pro's as of currently.

My biggest complaints so far, are that ya have to keep a member of your cartel, on a city, at pretty much all times, or else it's gonna revolt, and that's a massive pain in the arse.

You pay upkeep every single day, for every building ya have. Some of these are very cheap, with 5 dollars. Some of these are abhorrently expensive, with 700-1000.

Getting clean money is just a massive annoyance because of how long the buildings take to generate it, and due to the fact that everybody wants clean money for something. Quests, payment, bribes, research.

I'm really hoping the dev's improve on this.

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260 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.06.22 00:14

Basically plays like a flash game, very basic, some interesting mechanics but no real depth and gets repetitive fast.

Play Tropico for a better simulation.

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952 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.06.22 21:12

Had some redeemable qualities but ultimately was tedious and not fun. Not a fan of having a last minute blockade take out my leader when I don't even have 5 seconds to react.

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6058 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.06.22 09:19

If you like business/tycoon games, you'll love this one. Still in early access, the game runs great but their are a few bugs when it comes to actual game play (to be expected). However, the developers are active in their discord channel fixing bugs, answering questions, and taking player feedback into account to improve the game.

Highly recommended (10/10), especially for the business/tycoon game enthusiast.

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476 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.05.22 12:09

---{ Graphics }---
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☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
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☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

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☑ Eargasm
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☐ I'm now deaf

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☐ Kids
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☐ Grandma

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☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

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☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

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☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

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☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
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☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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6011 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.05.22 03:45

Hello, everyone.
Below was my previews point of view about the game. Today and after been playing for another 21 hours the game, i found my self controlling a top bad ass cartel, ready to take down the enemy cartels, expanding on each city under my umbrella from my chair. the games has improve a lot since my last review and it is fair to change my point of view and thanks to the hard work to the develop team, to make this game enjoyable!

game is highly recommended! i love it.
CartelTycoonMay2022 Beta patch was a big boost to fix and improve the game.

i hope you guys keeping the game better on every patch, update!
~ Thank you!

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game is good , but can't do anything, no progress at all. police is all over you, not a chance of grow, expand. game need some balance. i played many scenarios and same result. also can't fight back the police force and you cant get rid off them even if you paid (soborne) the governor to take care, police still bother you all the time for anything. can't play like that!

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613 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.02.22 14:08

Beautiful game which is optimized well, compared to other EA Games.
Hard to play and not forgiving. Don't worry if you have to play the map 3 times to figure it out.

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3336 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.02.22 00:26

HONEST REVIEW

a game about operations about cartels, very suitable for those of you who like something structured in cartels.

I myself really like playing the cartel tycoon game because the developers always do the latest updates so it won't be boring for users who have reached maximum wealth.

trust me, if you are still in doubt you can ask via message or via discord MGL#7463
or you can join the official discord Cartel Tycoon:
https://discord.gg/29VAgze9

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310 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.02.22 19:29

I just finished the turtorial but there was already a few hours be passed and that was impressive to good explained everything.After that you should really understand the game.

One point mentioned someone that you have problems to keep up laundering the dirty money.Well you can choose a lot of buildings costs and so on can use dirty money as payment as well.
btw there are multiple buildings to laundry money.I have just the taxi company and in the next city rogandes the bank what gives me alone already 30K and there are many other buildings to do this as well.

For me it makes really fun to play and love the game.

I would just like the characters would have their voices instead of text base communication but that would give the game just the Point to be perfect for me.

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1800 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.02.22 19:38

Game has a bit learning curve in the beginning, I had given up to this game after I found the demo confusing. But I really wanted to like this game, had on my wishlist, I came across this again and again... after seeing developer actively responding to the users, I had to give them a new chance. It is rare to see developers engaging with community so actively.
And yes, I did end up liking it a lot, I think they have created something unique with Cartel Tycoon. I completed first story and plan to start second (Hard) soon. I am looking forward for the future updates what dev team is planning for us!

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102 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.12.21 21:01

It is not complicated and still fun. Alternative for Tropico with different concepts.

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3192 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.12.21 15:11

The game has potential to be a good game. However, one thing I noticed is the heavy handedness of the developers in deciding how you can play the game. For instance, it has a fairly decent sandbox, however, it is unjustifiably linked to the story mode; most of the regions and buildings are locked, it cannot be accessed unless the story mode is finished. I have never encountered any game that restricts its sandbox by its campaigns.

This completely destroys the sandbox. This dependency with the story mode is one of the major reasons that completely ruins the game. While I understand that devs have put in lot of effort on the story mode and they would like the mode to be played. This restriction, however, borders on arm twisting of paying customers.

The artificial restriction on sandbox needs to be removed, before that, it is highly recommended that this game not be bought, it will be a complete waste of money.

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710 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.11.21 22:36

At some point, the whole empire begins to turn into blob. Mid-game and End-game are repeatable, counquering second region or doing tenth quest are the same, police reactions quickly become stale. Not worth the money. Also has performance issues when you have too many routes and vehicles in play. The saddest thing is that this doesn't feel like a cartel simulator at all. You spend more time trying to get the trucks to do what you WANT them to do than actually doing anything against other gangs.

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1182 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.11.21 03:30

The saddest thing is that this doesn't feel like a cartel simulator at all. You spend more time trying to get the trucks to do what you WANT them to do than actually doing anything against other gangs.

I spend more time waiting for cash to get cleaned than ANYTHING else and clean cash is needed for the most crucial parts of your logistics which are the buildings that COLLECT YOUR PROFITS because you dont get the money deposited into your account. It creates a catch 22 because you need money to do things but you need to start WITHOUT it making expansion a HUUUUUUUUGE micro fest. You need to hand deliver the cash for EVERY BUILDING that isn't in the circle of the clean cash buildings. This takes away your captains who are used to defend your lands against attack.

The logistics are so broken that you can have 50K money in the bank but your captains complain there is no money because they are driving around and not in a building with cash inside it.

I tried to like this game but it feels soulless, the story isn't interesting, the economy is simply broken, and whats worse is that sandbox buildings are locked behind the most boring campaign I ever seen.

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1020 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.11.21 21:01

Not really there. Systems are laid out, but do not combine into interesting play. Logistics demand too much micro, game scales badly. At some point, the whole empire begins to turn into blob. Mid-game and End-game are repeatable, counquering second region or doing tenth quest are the same, police reactions quickly become stale. Not worth the money. Also has performance issues when you have too many routes and vehicles in play.

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211 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.11.21 02:25

If you have watched Narcos and love the series, then you are in the right place...

Slowly Evolving Escobar Simulator.

My only current criticism of this shop is that the management system lacks any real depth and I feel even as you get more powerful currently the police always steam role you later for the smallest of incidences.. Most things I feel they will address over time and add hopefully what the community wants them to add

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126 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.10.21 15:03

four in cars 'bout five in jewelry. D to A with S580

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925 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.09.21 18:45

Really interesting premise with a great city building feel, if you're into city building style games, definitely check out this game. It might only be worth buying after a few more updates though.

I like the way the game plays for the most part, except for expanding in to new areas. It also feels like there's also a tad too much micromanagement than I'd like (eg having to set specific ports for specific things, and there's only so many sell slots available. Makes it basically impossible to really expand out without losing track of everything). I'd imagine these issues will be smoothed out with time.

There's also a, I'm calling it a bug, where I think there is a priority order on what gets sold at EG shipyards but that priority is a little off. I had a game where I had about 1000 opium in vegetables in total, yet the shipyard would prioritise selling the 5 cannabis in coffee, and the 10 opium in coffee, rather than the 200 opium vegetables in stock, which would make way more money.

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8416 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.09.21 02:17

If you are a terrible manager in real life, you will enjoy this game.
Not because of the murder and narcotics, but because of the endless micro-management. Unfortunately this game is not worth purchasing yet until the AI and UI are vastly overhauled, because you will find yourself manually doing tasks that should be done automatically, while your money creeps towards nothing because you can only be in so many places at once.
There is a potentially great game in here though, once it comes out of early access I will return to playing it.

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2421 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.08.21 06:30

Normally I don't rate Steam games but with this one I just had to :) I got 20h of gameplay and could NEVER sit there for more than 10min looking at my money getting more. There was always something to do either there were problems with the police (farms, transport routes or even a whole part of town was confiscated). Other gangs were causing stress or my own people were causing stress against my will because they were not paid continuously. You have to make sure that you always pay the maintenance costs, otherwise they interrupt their mission and then everything quickly gets out of control.

This game is not a tycoon game as you know it, you have to organise and network everything precisely. The community is quite big and very active (as are the developers).

I can only recommend this game!

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2218 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.08.21 17:19

The other day I posted a negative review to this game and the criticisms don't seem to apply to the updated game.

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25321 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.08.21 18:51

I like this game. The developers are quick to respond. They have constant updates that have made the game better as it develops. I have been a gamer since Atari and C64 , I must say this game, this early in development is really fun to play. The addition of the transport company really helps the logistics problem I was having when i played my first 300 hrs. I like the way the new map is set up in campaign mode, a great improvement over the first map. The greater area the residence covers since launch has also made logistics easier and more realistic. Did I mention that I am an asshole? who in a bipolar rage earlier, gave this great game a thumbs down because of all the bullshit games I have purchased through steam, and the hrs played it claimed i had. I talked shit because I always feel robbed buying and supporting some of these trash games that never get finished. I have over 400 hrs playing this game, probably 300 of them I was awake and enjoying it. When you figure out how to manage the stars, the rest of the game for me so far is a perfect balance of skill and creativity on the players part. I haven't played many hrs since the most recent update, I am about to put a shift in now to remedy that problem. In my opinion these developers are hardworking down to earth people. They listen to the community while doing a great job of implementing some of the good ideas that the community requests. This shows me that these developers really care about the community, they put in that extra work to turn the communities requests into reality. I haven't even scratched the surface of all the features this game offers the player and his team. I am going to start my game over now because I want to start fresh with all the updates. I am glad that I left the launcher on and passed out my first time trying to play this game. I was being a dick that night so just because I saw the HRS played at 20 something i wanted a refund before even playing very long. This is a great game that keeps getting better.

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1685 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.08.21 19:54

I absolutely love this game. Happy to see how the devs have modified it since the early Alphas. I have not played anything like this in recent years and would recommend it if you like Narcos, or tycoon games.

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688 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.08.21 14:54

The game is really put together but it lacks options. Seems like once you get to a certain point with a certain export that you don't really need to branch out for money. You'll make small areas to fufill quests to expand but other than that diversifying doesn't seem to be important once you have multiple ports or aerodomes available

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628 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.06.21 23:41

I wanted this to be great, I really did, and I feel like I gave it a fair shot. Unfortunately the mechanics are just not fun. Essentially, if you stick strictly within your first city's land and expand no further you can infinitely print money without hassle, but the second you try to push into enemy territory you start amassing 'terror'. The terror mechanic is somewhat akin to the wanted mechanic in GTA, except as your terror subsides (by bribing mayors) your wanted stars stay the same: so the second you trigger a given wanted star due to your terror, you're stuck at that level forever. This strongly disincentivizes expansion, unless you can hit your opponents with such overwhelming force that you can take their city and properties from them before accruing a wanted star, then quickly blast your terror down to zero by bribing mayors.

This issue is compounded by the fact that the wanted stars endowed by your terror level have effects that range between tedious and stressful. Shipments of goods will be seized, buildings destroyed, henchmen wiped out, with no real counter except to either bribe mayors to 'freeze' the effects of your wanted star for a bit, or staying eagle eyed and micromanaging your people and buildings whenever a wanted star is about to trigger its punishment.

In effect, you're left with a game that punishes you with tedium for trying to expand, while giving you little incentive to do so as you can just sit in your starter city pumping out cash.

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1015 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.06.21 02:52

HOLD OFF - COOL IDEA - SAVE $$$

(Putting the game on sale recently does not fix what you ignore to fix for months)
Only reviews above ours, which are positive out of kindness... they received for free.

Not us. Paid for it and honest.

Here are a few reasons why you should hold off supporting this game in its current state;

This game is caught with disconnected developers from hands on feedback, meeting deadlines, where just recently the producer delegated a team member to interact with the steam community, attempting to put a proverbial tourniquet on things after our review posted and 30 days later they have seen its influence and or sales numbers plummet, as it should.

Developers are not interactive with community currently. Since we posted our review it seems tinybuild® has delegated manpower to talking to the community finally as of June 30th 2021, which is a good business move.
Game wants you to do x, y, z but you can't because of game breaking mechanics, bad business move.
Developers and producers on two pages... really bad for development and the future.
The tutorial if you want to call it that, is utterly horrible.
Balance and game management are horrendous at this time and are too many to list
Until they address, update or communicate with the community, save your money
Six hours in and 4 restarts and the balance for money made in the game start, versus what is thrown at you and you are powerless to stop is not only frustrating but prevents you playing past 30 minutes. If you do find a work around, there is no drive to keep playing. Too many dead ends.

We did have an example, but feel we will not help these guys on their quest further.

Lets keep our fingers crossed and play with our sac in the corner which is more entertaining and beneficial to this point. Stand at attention Willie when I am talking to you! Give me 40 up downs! That was six and you throw up! We will do this all night until you get it right!

Hold Off... save your money even if on sale!!

If they place it on sale, it is because as the negative reviews offset the paid for reviews and sales are finally where the should be causing someone to care or shelf it.
So sad, terrific idea, great producer, horrible development team so far.

We thank tinybuild® for putting a staff member to interact with the community, Andr, but he is now middle man between the producer and developers who go off of his interpretation of the forums... which equals disaster. Blind leading the blind. In their reply to us, proves why.
Contradictions because they have no clue what is going on.

The update(s) you may see or encounter, are pointless and for producers schedule.
That is just pressure making this great idea more of a mess.

We are of the current and regretful thought, that at this point the developers are just covering up a mess and meeting update deadlines so their producer does not cut them off that is how insignificant the updates are.

THE MOST RECENT UPDATE June 30th 2021... More things added... no fixes no changes to existing game breaking issues, no way to move forward!
Where is the tutorial fix Andr?? Where is this complete tutorial you stated was in the works?
Since when?

They do have some quality voice acting and some neat potential. Just the developers are throwing more video eye candy at game breaking issues NOT being addressed. Why are the developer's NOT glancing the forums for complete understanding, as to what is conflicting with their work.

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Daily... I needed a laugh and you made a team member pee... you just recently delegated a tinybuild® team member to actively interact. Still not a developer, a publisher team member.

Attention to detail... your recent update addressed nothing just added things to distract from the core elements which are game progressive deadlocks ...moving along....

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You are improving and changing balance.. simply put... it is NOT done.

You updated our tutorial... contradicted the same sentence and the said it is in the works. WHICH ONE IS IT?

The truth from our seat... not since our review posted a month ago or after the one days ago, and for months while other pointless updates and no tutorial fixes still. So it is not being done or it would have been pumped out as a priority.

FULL TUTORIAL IS IN THE WORKS means... again.. contradiction in your same sentence which equals NOT DONE!

Will visit the game again when I see you do anything you said you do, is actually done.

Now we will give some kind advice

Focus on doing the work, fixing the game, respecting your community and curators.

Make your game work correctly and making a good tutorial.

Most of all be honest and accurate... this approach will get you help you seek and sales.

We really wanted to support your game and back you.
We eagerly wait to see work claimed is being completed.
So far... just a producer, saving time and face for developers meeting deadlines and killing the game.
Your development team may have to rework and fix many things you put hours into and it can be a groan'r, but it is part of making a game.

Countless hours redoing a whole system or tutorial you thought was great on paper, can be demoralizing. Trying to keep something that just does not work for anyone outside your mindset or idea put on paper or already worked, is not having an open mind.

Grinding a complete change or process from coding on up, is much better than watching sales drop to zero. We hope you make the good decisions, and improve the game. Moral is only low in your office if you are not open to ideas, improvement, and lack respect for the people buying / playing your game in an early state and that have been in the industry on both sides of the isle for years.

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2052 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.06.21 22:33

ITS GOING TO END UP BEING A GREAT GAME ONCE FULLY DEVELOPED. ITS A LITTLE BUGGY AS OF NOW, BUT IMPROVEMENTS ARE ADDED REGULARLY

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3232 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.06.21 10:25

Played this game a lot in last few days... Is there areas could be improved? Yes, definitely. In early access the game is playable but takes a bit of figuring out. Perhaps I just missed it, but there not much in the way of tutorial, but I wouldn't say it's necessary. If starting for first time, do the story mode and the early missions give you step by step how to do things.

I think Steam could do with more than a yes or no recommendation as I'm on the fence with this, but more leaning towards yes. I'd give a 6/10 at this current stage as once you have established your cartel and routes, its hard to fail. Even taking bigger cities is relatively easy and I feel like I'm walking through the rest of the game with some things being slightly more tedious than fun... Maybe there is more and a bigger challenge to come in story mode that I have not got to yet

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2297 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.05.21 16:16

Fun. For a minute. Too easy. Too repetitive. Boring.

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1046 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.05.21 12:25

First: This game is still in Early Access and that should be keep in mind.

For now I only played the story mode and not the sandbox mode, that is also available. The game looks pretty decent and with the story mode you get a good tutorial on your hands. I didn´t experienced any bugs for now.

But there are some things that need some adjustments with the coming updates:

- the micromanagment
At several points you see that it is not perfectly balanced. Be it the flow of money laundering or even the dirty money. Also all the supply chains for the drugs need a little fine tuning.

- the save system (and my biggest con for now)
You can only save when you leave the game and you only have that one save, so you can´t save and try something out to go back to an earlier point, if you see you fucked up big times

A new bigger update will come in the next days or week (communicated via the devs discord), so I will be exited to see whats coming next.

I can´t say how this tycoon game is, compared to other ones, because this is my first tycoon game ever, but I am not disappointed.

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1996 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.05.21 01:54

They most likely have to work on some optimization problems and defiently on some of the game mechanics and balance the game out, but definetly this is an amazing game headed in a even more amazing direction

What I think they should do:
Allow for more henchmans
Allow for more spread of factories and territory expansion
Allow for more war, get more aggressive gangs and make it more brutal
Don't allow to take a loan and launder money through loans, but allow for more money laundering structures

Make so I can be a Pablo Escobar type of character where I have my own boss villa and I won't loose the city unless I don't have an henchman there and I can defend my self with cool fortress weapons against the governament or if they do catch me does it really need to be death? Can I buy out my own prison and drive buisness from there and in there?

Just a few suggestions, KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK, THIS IS AMAZING!

The music is super exquisite!

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1768 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.05.21 09:51

good game, wait for the update content

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1932 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.05.21 05:24

Any long strategy game should have a save feature - it sucks making it 8 hours through the campaign to only get shafted by a series of random events and have no save to go back to. Strategy games that have mandatory iron-man mode always on use it as a crutch for not having enough content. Give me the option to turn it on and off.

Even worse than not having saves is that you will run into scripted events in which you are often not given enough information to make informed decisions (you will not know the actual requirements for succeeding until after you select a choice), its game over. For example, you are told at a point in the campaign that you either need to pay someone off or kill them. If you choose to pay them off, you are given an absurdly high dollar amount with a time limit. Ops, sorry for not letting you know how much and that it's timed before you clicked it! In my next runs, now I know I need to save money in preparation of this event. That is crappy game design.

The difficulty level is unreal, and it is also almost impossible to come back once you fall behind even a bit. I'm a legendary/ironman xcom2 player. I enjoy a good challenge. This game is not a challenge. To do well in the normal campaign, you will need foresight into what works and what doesn't, with no room for mistakes... which means you will likely have to play the first 50% of the campaign multiple times to really get the jest of it.

I might still try and power through the campaign, not because I like it at this point, but because I put in too many hours to not finish it.

From a game mechanics perspective, many systems are pretty wonky. There is no way to split orders, or have certain amounts of money go to certain places. You can't control stockpiles. Resource management is essentially non-existent.

Finally, the two most annoying part of the game: 1) The constant popups of your underlings asking for raises and promotions. Its just not fun to navigate. I have too many other things going on to deal with their whining. 2) The ridiculously over-tuned police constantly locking down your stuff.

I WANT to like this game. The setting is great, and I love that we finally got a mafia/cartel game that focuses on the business rather than guns blazing. However, the developers have a lot of work to do it get it up to scratch.

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1980 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.03.21 06:27

TL:DR : Great Graphic, Great Music, Terrible Balance.

the game is what you expect.. a great drug lord management sim, with great graphics, nice GUI and nice music.
but that is where my praise ends.
At the current state of the game, i couldn't recommend the game yet.

the game is ridiculously hard. definitely not for casuals.

Levelling up your liuetenant raises their salary to a significant amount.
plus, there are finite number of people you can hire
but you still need people to guard your aerodrome/seaport as well as cities you own.

there are 3 levels of drug (opium, cannabis and cocaine) you can sell,
but to sell the 2nd and 3rd level of drug you will need significant amount of money to research the buildings needed to grow and process those drugs.

In addition, the penalty of getting your heat is very high
DEA keep preventing you to export your goods
Police will seize your building if you store too much product
and to reduce the heat is very costly.
you need to a lot of money to reduce it.

So what will happen in most games is that you need to really build your empire slowly
otherwise you'll end up unable to pay your lieutenants
or getting raided/investigated by police
or both.

Oh in addition, you don't wan't to get you Capo @ your main character killed.
the game does continue as such that one of your successor became the next Capo
but the penalty is too great
your buildings get seized
you lost your friendship with cities you already owned
you might as well restart your game.

In short, you better watch how the developers play the game to get the optimal build order
or your drug empire will crumble.

Oh, and did I tell you that there is no manual save?
There is no manual save.
The game auto saves on exit.
if you f'd up, then you might as well restart your game.
It feels like They Are Billions all over again.

So, that is what i feel about the game at the moment.
note that the game is still in early access, and the developers may not yet get the balance right yet.

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2033 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.03.21 18:31

This game is really very difficult to get a grasp on. I was able to keep a low profile and make some money, but without the ability to stop loading money into certain buildings you will gain to much terror and the ability to reduce it is to expensive. You need to keep many lieutenants to keep even a couple distribution sites. If they change at least one of those things it would make this game great now its essentially unbeatable.

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718 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.03.21 22:50

Id wait there's a good concept in here, but it just runs out of gas when you have to micromanage dirty money because the residences don't automatically move money to the launderers... it seems like the logistics AI is buggy.

The other thing is there doesn't seem to be any time threat the rivial gangs in sandbox just kinda chill don't attack you... an element of needing to move quick is definitly needed here cause there's no reason to at the ti me of writing this..

this game needs a lot more time to cook in the oven. Honestly you can get a couple hours of fun here and if you like the devs buy the game, but if you're looking for a good tycoon game this is just not it. I think it's possible that this will dev into a great game, and ii will give it another go in a few months and change my review if necessary.

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941 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.03.21 18:02

I'm with the others who have put more than 10 hours in the game. It starts out great, it's fresh and new. And even as someone who LOVES time management games, this becomes micromanaging hell that you can't seem to get out of. I've used all THREE starts/saves available to try and approach starts differently with varying success, ignoring quests and focusing on building up before expanding helped, but only so much. After moving into three territories I don't have enough lieutenants/residences to get everything covered and spend way too much legal cash to boost my loyalty to reduce my terror. It's just a frustrating cycle at this point.

I'll certainly check back often since I really do like the game in general. But frustration does not equal challenge.

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777 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.21 18:41

At the current state as previous reviews have pointed out, game needs lots of polishing. They also need smooth out the bottleneck issues you run into and the fact after 3 stars the game is almost unplayable. At it's current state I would not recommend purchasing this quite yet. However the developers seem active and responsive and I very much do think in the near future this will be changed to a positive review.

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547 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.21 04:12

Way way way way better than Empire of Sin.

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4219 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.21 03:17

After capturing first 2 regions, immediate laundering bottleneck. 3rd region provides some relief, but not enough. The quests to continue capturing seaports provide more money than you can launder, and you run out of lieutenants to cover ground. If you produce anything more valuable like cocaine, again laundering bottleneck. The easiest thing is to keep producing the lowest yield product. It has potential to be fun if the mechanics are worked out. At the moment it just does not scale past the tutorial for money or org hierarchy. I'll definitely keep playing once in a while and revise review accordingly.

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