El Matador
Third-person shooter with slow-motion combat against a rising drug cartel
Plastic Reality Technologies · Published by Fulqrum Publishing · Released Apr 3, 2014
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 72% of 426
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 31, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Oct 20, 2025
Metacritic: 54/100 (critic reviews)
What is El Matador?
You play a DEA agent sent to dismantle a cartel in this single-player third-person shooter set in Central and South America. You locate camps, infiltrate headquarters, and fight cartel members in jungles, mansions, and harbors.
For you if...
- +you enjoy the tone of old action movies
Not for you if...
- −you want a lengthy campaign driven by its story
What players say
72% of 426 reviews are positive
Players praise the fast-paced shooting, often comparing the combat to Max Payne. Complaints include tough enemies and technical problems that require manual fixes.
Screenshots and trailer
El Matador system requirements
Minimum: DirectX 9 GPU, 0.5 GB RAM, 3 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run El Matador?
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Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP/7/8
- Processor
- 1.5 GHz Pentium 3 / AMD Athlon Processor
- Graphics
- 128 MB DirectX9 compatible graphics card with pixel & vertex shader support (nVidia GeForce 4, ATI Radeon 8500)
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows XP/7/8
- Processor
- 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon Processor
- Graphics
- 256 MB DirectX9 compatible graphics card with pixel & vertex shader 2.0 support (nVidia GeForce 6, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro)
- Memory
- 1024 MB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB available space
Does El Matador have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does El Matador run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Full audio: English, Russian, French, Czech. Text only: Italian, German, Spanish - Spain.
Does El Matador use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
