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El Matador cover art

El Matador

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

SteamGOG

Action

Modes: Single player

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.

1
playing now
72%
positive of 591 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
47/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
61/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 43% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–35k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 591 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.79-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$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 102 of 145 observed days · $0.49 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.49$0.432015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-05-05 — best price $3.242015-10-08 — best price $1.252016-06-27 — best price $1.242016-11-24 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $0.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992018-05-17 — best price $3.192018-11-07 — best price $1.002019-02-04 — best price $0.792019-05-09 — best price $0.802019-08-08 — best price $3.992019-12-01 — best price $0.602020-03-24 — best price $3.992020-06-18 — best price $0.592020-09-21 — best price $3.992020-12-05 — best price $3.162021-02-23 — best price $0.592021-05-29 — best price $2.932021-08-19 — best price $3.992021-11-06 — best price $3.992022-02-03 — best price $3.992022-05-26 — best price $3.142022-08-14 — best price $3.162022-12-09 — best price $3.142023-03-06 — best price $0.712023-07-18 — best price $3.992023-11-13 — best price $0.592024-02-06 — best price $0.792024-05-10 — best price $0.802024-08-10 — best price $3.992024-11-27 — best price $0.792025-03-03 — best price $0.692025-06-08 — best price $0.742025-08-23 — best price $3.992025-10-24 — best price $0.822026-01-05 — best price $3.992026-04-06 — best price $3.292026-06-30 — best price $0.792026-08-30 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4762026-05-30 — 9 pageviews2026-06-02 — 10 pageviews2026-06-05 — 16 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-11 — 6 pageviews2026-06-14 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 15 pageviews2026-06-20 — 18 pageviews2026-06-23 — 11 pageviews2026-06-26 — 13 pageviews2026-06-29 — 16 pageviews2026-07-02 — 17 pageviews2026-07-05 — 13 pageviews2026-07-08 — 11 pageviews2026-07-11 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 9 pageviews2026-07-17 — 10 pageviews2026-07-20 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 6 pageviews2026-07-26 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 9 pageviews2026-08-01 — 22 pageviews2026-08-04 — 18 pageviews2026-08-07 — 28 pageviews2026-08-10 — 20 pageviews2026-08-13 — 16 pageviews2026-08-16 — 11 pageviews2026-08-19 — 17 pageviews2026-08-22 — 12 pageviews2026-08-25 — 20 pageviews2026-08-27 — 10 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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