Narcos: Rise of the Cartels (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is a brutal turn-based action strategy game based on the hit Netflix TV series. Explore the entire first season from two sides each with their own unique story.

57 19 November 2019

What Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is an adventure game developed by Kuju Entertainment and released in 2019. It was published by Curve Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is a brutal turn-based action strategy game based on the hit Netflix TV series. Explore the entire first season from two sides each with their own unique story.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Narcos series

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Narcos series. The next entry was DDS x Narcos in 2026.

See all 2 Narcos games in release order →

How it was received

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Narcos: Rise of the Cartels launched on 19 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Persona 5 Royal and Luigi's Mansion 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Persona 5 Royal, Luigi's Mansion 3.

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