Can I Run Cartel Tycoon?
Released in 2022, Cartel Tycoon is an action indie game built by Moon Moose. Publishing duties went to tinyBuild. The game supports a single player campaign. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. There are 19 achievements to chase. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | i5 and up |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | i7 ~3 Ghz / Ryzen 7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around systems the player balances from above. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large. It is played from a top down view. There are 15 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Cartel Tycoon is demanding
Demand in Cartel Tycoon is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GTX 1060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Cartel Tycoon scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cartel Tycoon?
Cartel Tycoon is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB, 4 GB RAM, about 5 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Cartel Tycoon's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Cartel Tycoon?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cartel Tycoon?
The minimum requirements are CPU: i5 and up; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 4GB; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Cartel Tycoon need?
Cartel Tycoon needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Cartel Tycoon?
The RTX 3060 runs Cartel Tycoon comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Cartel Tycoon?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cartel Tycoon is the GPU.