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El Matador

Plastic Reality Technologies · Fulqrum Publishing · 2014-04-03

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Sep 25, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Become El Matador, a DEA special agent tasked with taking down the drug barons. A new narcotics cartel is rising across Central and South America, sharpening its claws and extending its reach. Locate the encampments, infiltrate the headquarters, and put an end to the cartel's influence.

El Matador is an Action game released in 2014, priced at $3.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 590 reviews).

0
playing now
72%
positive of 597 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
47/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (3 downloads)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

El Matador is a 2006 third-person shooter video game developed by Czech studio Plastic Reality Technologies and published by Cenega Publishing.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 27,606 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 15k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 597 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.79-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.30 at GameBillet (2020-11-27) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 127 of 168 observed days · $0.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Apr 2014Aug 2022Apr 2014 — avg 2 · peak 11Jul 2014 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2014 — avg 1 · peak 14Jan 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Apr 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 5Apr 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 6Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Dec 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Jun 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Aug 2022 — avg 2 · peak 6
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.332015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-05-27 — best price $3.172015-12-22 — best price $1.192016-08-04 — best price $1.242017-04-11 — best price $1.002017-11-04 — best price $0.992018-05-17 — best price $3.192018-11-22 — best price $1.002019-03-22 — best price $0.992019-07-08 — best price $0.792019-11-01 — best price $3.992020-01-30 — best price $3.352020-06-18 — best price $0.592020-10-03 — best price $0.332021-01-05 — best price $3.992021-04-20 — best price $3.992021-07-17 — best price $3.392021-10-23 — best price $3.162022-02-03 — best price $3.992022-06-10 — best price $0.532022-10-03 — best price $1.352023-01-26 — best price $1.592023-06-08 — best price $0.672023-10-25 — best price $0.592024-02-06 — best price $0.792024-05-25 — best price $3.992024-09-25 — best price $0.992025-01-06 — best price $3.792025-05-08 — best price $0.792025-08-12 — best price $0.642025-10-24 — best price $0.822026-01-23 — best price $0.792026-05-13 — best price $3.992026-08-01 — best price $0.792026-09-21 — best price $3.992026-10-14 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4732026-05-30 — 9 pageviews2026-06-03 — 10 pageviews2026-06-07 — 9 pageviews2026-06-11 — 6 pageviews2026-06-15 — 18 pageviews2026-06-19 — 16 pageviews2026-06-23 — 11 pageviews2026-06-27 — 24 pageviews2026-07-01 — 21 pageviews2026-07-05 — 13 pageviews2026-07-09 — 9 pageviews2026-07-13 — 17 pageviews2026-07-17 — 10 pageviews2026-07-21 — 13 pageviews2026-07-25 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 9 pageviews2026-08-02 — 18 pageviews2026-08-06 — 12 pageviews2026-08-10 — 20 pageviews2026-08-14 — 15 pageviews2026-08-18 — 12 pageviews2026-08-22 — 12 pageviews2026-08-26 — 15 pageviews2026-08-30 — 17 pageviews2026-09-03 — 14 pageviews2026-09-07 — 23 pageviews2026-09-11 — 10 pageviews2026-09-15 — 12 pageviews2026-09-19 — 16 pageviews2026-09-23 — 11 pageviews2026-09-27 — 18 pageviews2026-10-01 — 14 pageviews2026-10-05 — 3 pageviews2026-10-08 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, Russian, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, French

Player tags

ActionClassicShooterBullet TimeSingleplayerThird PersonThird-Person Shooter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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