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Games like My Drug Cartel

If My Drug Cartel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Billion Egg Farm, Wanderers' Outpost and Biofactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its active discord community, challenging and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About My Drug Cartel: A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

2025StrategySimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Gigicom
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Steam players who put hours into My Drug Cartel also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Billion Egg Farm

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.

    SimulationSteam ↗
  2. Wanderers' Outpost

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.

    2026SimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗
  3. Biofactory

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.

    2026StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  4. Factory Town 2: Paradise

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Greedy Little Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    A short-run roguelike city builder. Gather lanterns, craft crowbars and magic potions, fulfil demands from frogs, plague doctors, and swamp dragons. Explore the hex map, survive the King's moods, and find the artefacts that break your economy wide open. Repeat.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  6. Eureka

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    Eureka is an open-world business management simulator. From gold mining to wheat farming, choose your products, manage your resources, and grow your business however you see fit!

    2022SimulationEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Autonauts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with My Drug Cartel.

    Ranked #7 for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

    2019IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Steel Artery: Train City Builder

    WHY THIS

    Shares economy management, survival management and a tense mood with My Drug Cartel.

    Ranked #8 for My Drug Cartel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to My Drug Cartel

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with My Drug Cartel.

    Reviewers of My Drug Cartel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of My Drug Cartel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cartel Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares character progression, resource management, gritty and a tense mood with My Drug Cartel.

    Reviewers of My Drug Cartel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    Step into the shoes of a young man in a fictional 1980s Latin America. Embrace your destiny navigating a world fraught with drugs, violence, and bloodshed.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie10.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Drug Cartel at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with My Drug Cartel.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Balatro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under My Drug Cartel on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Drug Cartel.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with My Drug Cartel.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Unturned

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

    2017ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Muck

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about My Drug Cartel

Does My Drug Cartel run on Steam Deck?
My Drug Cartel is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does My Drug Cartel cost?
My Drug Cartel is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to My Drug Cartel?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Drug Cartel are Billion Egg Farm, Wanderers' Outpost, Biofactory.
Who developed My Drug Cartel?
My Drug Cartel was developed by Gigicom.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on My Drug Cartel.

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