Tropico 6

Brilliant game. Buy it now. Polished, great mechanics, lots of replay value, lots of maps, well written, funny, one of the best ever city builders.

👑 **Tropico 6**
🪙 *The only game where being a corrupt dictator is not only allowed… it’s encouraged.*

**Playtime:** 40 hours (10 managing the economy, 30 admiring my golden palace while ignoring rebel uprisings)

**Recommended:** ✅ Yes. If you’ve ever wanted to run an island like a cigar-smoking, speech-giving, pineapple-exporting overlord — this is your time.

I booted it up thinking,
_"Let’s see how long I can keep my people happy..."_
Then I discovered the offshore bank account mechanic and said:
_"Okay never mind, Viva El Presidente!"_

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🌟 **STARRING:**

👑 **El Presidente** – Supreme ruler of the island, master of charisma, and totally not rigging elections.
🏝️ **Your Island** – A beautiful Caribbean paradise full of opportunities, sunshine, and the occasional coup.
📦 **Imports & Exports** – Bananas out, tanks in. Economics 101, baby.
🏗️ **Ridiculously Overcomplicated Infrastructure** – Build bridges, tunnels, cable cars, and forget why you started building any of them.
🗳️ **Fake Elections** – Because democracy is optional when you’re this charming.

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🎮 **Gameplay Loop:**

• Build farms ✅
• Export rum like it’s your life’s purpose ✅
• Build a circus right next to the secret police HQ ✅
• Accidentally declare war on a superpower ✅
• Send a spy to steal the Eiffel Tower ✅
• Win the election you rigged ✅
• Celebrate with a parade in your own honor ✅
• Blame everything on the rebels ✅

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📢 **El Presidente’s Greatest Hits (Quotes Probably Heard):**

• “This is not corruption! This is... creative wealth distribution!”
• “The people love me. I just remind them with posters and police patrols.”
• “I’m not a dictator. I’m a very *democratic* authoritarian.”
• “Ah yes, another loan from the World Bank. I shall use it to build... a statue of myself.”

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🎨 **Graphics?**
Sun-soaked beaches, lush jungles, and angry protestors. It’s beautiful. Until you build a power plant next to a beach resort and suddenly tourism goes down 3000%.

🔊 **Sound Design?**
Tropical music, political speeches, and the glorious hum of cigar factories. You’ll feel like you’re running a banana republic while dancing.

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🧠 **Final Thoughts:**
Tropico 6 is less about micromanaging and more about **macro-dramatizing**.
It's not a city builder. It's a **personality simulator**.
And your personality?
**Dictator with a heart of gold... coins.**

🎉 Viva Tropico.
💼 Viva Swiss bank accounts.
👑 Viva me.

👍 10/10 would “accidentally” build ten secret police stations next to a school again
🎮 #Tropico6 #ElPresidente #DemocracyIsOverrated
🍍💰🚁 (me flying away from a failed election in my private helicopter while sipping rum)

It's a city builder'ish. Haven't really given anything but the sandbox a try, but in sandbox the game is just a little less intuitive than necessary. As long as you keep the people happy the game is easy mode to a boring point. Unless you go to options and disable certain settings that allow the game to "push" progress, you're going to experience demands that are sometimes illogical for the early game. These events will cause your citizens to not like you if you don't complete them, and that sucks a little. It just seems messy and unorganized in the field. I don't think these events really add to the game much. Just issure edicts like literacy program and tax cut and your people will be happy if you are even mediocre at city building.
It's a 6.5/10 for me.

Want to jail someone? 3 buttons for every single person. When you have 2000 population and want to jail 100 people, that is 300 clicks at least

This game is in a massive need of some quality of life improvements to not give you carpal tunnel.

Something like a Lama that you can put "add random from X faction into jail" would be enough but the company is more inclined to add more bloated mechanics.

The fact that there can be like 0-3 naturalists left of a faction out of thousands of inhabitants and they are still a fully functional faction. Really stupid.

They finally added trees yaay.

But since you have 0 control of where people move in which makes checking where they live, demolishing that house and hoping they move into the building you've specifically built for them. NOPE, they moved in somewhere else and some other dumbass moved halfway across the map to live there now. Dumbass inhabitants walk through the jungle to go to a circus when there is a fully functional one where they live.

Want to see why people are at work? Be ready to spend the next 10 minutes watching a single worker, and then do the same for the rest of the people you are wondering why they are not at work.

No wonder this does not take of more, age of empires II 20+ years ago had more quality of life then this "new" game.

The game -for some reason- deleted all of my saves when I logged into my steam account on another computer. There seems to be no way to retrieve anything. I completed almost all the campaign missions-with the achievements to show for it- but the game says I haven't done any. Whatever the issue is, it is disappointing this game has this awful functionality across devices.

Takes a bit to learn but once you figure out the supply chains. game is pretty easy. Dont over industrialize.

Very fun, easy to learn hard to master tutorial on how to be a dictator. Unrelated question but does anybody know the cheapest flight to Panama?

Amazing and addicting game. Some minor frustrations when it comes to road and building placement, etc... but easily overlooked with how great everything else is. Kudos to Kalypso Media for still releasing DLCs and Updates 6 years after release. They definitely deserve the support!

Last played series was the fourth, but its version satire, humor & dark comedy were missed and become nostalgic in a sense. This game still enjoyable but lack in enthusiasm like last series. This game appears to have unexplained bugs like random blackout during gameplay, though no issues with others in the game list. Also, random failure to startup game.

1. Build your small community
2. Make everyone a criminal
3. Build loads of prisons
4. Lock them up
5. Profit from criminals locked up in prison
6. Invest in swiss bank
7. Open Tropico 6 and enjoy peaceful game.

Best city builder ever, playing since Tropico 3. <3

If it wasn't for coronavirus, I never would've played this all the way through the first time, but now? It really brings home how poor of a game this is...

The poorly implemented age system that basically means you're struggling to make money and be an effective nation until "the modern times" when you unlock buildings that just print money for nothing.

The lack of real options and choice is staggering when you notice it. No tactical options, so why make military units squad up? Now my guys need to wait to form up before taking on the enemy, often losing a structure to the enemy in the process if I've expanded to other islands, which of course I have...

Why do we have so many factions, but nothing of substance from them? This is Tropico 6, as in this is the sixth one...you'd imagine that the devs would innovate or experiment at some point, but short of whopping new "dual demands" this is the same crud our Presidente has been dealing with for over a decade.

How about my authoritarian leader exhibits some authority? The sheer wall of demands your own people make of you is disgusting, as in made me nauseous, and you can't do much about it, since you're likely jonesing for more influence, immigrants or cash regardless. Heaven forbid I not magically solve all healthcare problems overnight, though...

"Story" "missions" that rely on you doing arbitrary tasks only to soft lock you from completion because the devs don't know their own game.

Tropico is a trash franchise, another in a long list of game series that refuses to innovate or adapt. Believe it or not, I don't like saying that, but after playing all of them, it's shown just how scared of change its developers are and I doubt we'll ever see real experimentation or evolution brought into the games.

Every release will be a watered down version of what came before, but not to worry! Some handy-dandy DLC will bring back features we lost since prior games! But only some. They'll also add in some jank and bugs. For good measure, of course! One simply can't release a reliably functional product in THIS market!

I regret buying this. Don't waste either your time or money.

I would vote this positive, but honestly I feel more like uninstalling it than I do paying for all the content they locked behind DLC which would make the game fun.

I hate supporting this kind of marketing for games. I play a game to have fun. If I wanted to get fleeced, I'd gamble, and I don't want to gamble on buying a game's features piecemeal at $20 a pop.

At this point I'm refusing to buy the DLC unless it's steeply discounted. The hours I have to show for playing this game show only how badly I wanted to give this game a chance. I loved Tropico 5, and considered it a favourite game that I only stopped playing because it got repetitive. This base game is just that repetitivity reskinned, and though the features you can pay to add onto the game are interesting, I feel like a victim of a scam even considering paying anywhere near full price for that scheme.

If you put out Tropico 7, at this point I'll only buy it if it's 75% or more discounted, just like Civilization 7 for this exact same reason. You kill the fun of your game with greed, I just learn to buy and play different games. Limbic, Realmforge, Kalypso -- you want these names associated with this kind of business, or with games that leave players feeling positive for playing?

I know what type of companies I want to support.

once i googled a few things the game became much easier to understand and incredibly fun, it kinda just drops you in(which i like) but a few things arent as obvious imo so hence required googling just a bit to understand mechanics.

Love this game, while not as good as some of the older versions it still stands up in its own right and is very enjoyable.

Would be cool if we had more control in directing units instead of hoping their ai doesnt act up.

Having only played Tropico 5 on console (PS Plus) I basically fell in love with Tropico and had to get this one when it was on such a good sale. I would definitely say it's an improvement on what Tropico 5 gave us. But the core elements are still there. It's very tongue and cheek humor about politics. Of all the City Builders I have played, Tropico focuses the most on allowing the player (El Presidente) to be whatever kind of leader you want to be... and deal with any consequences that may occur. The game has 4 Eras: Colonial, World Wars, Cold Wars, and Modern Times. Each era has its political and or national factions that you have to basically kiss up to (depending on how you play) by completing tasks for them in regards to your Tropical Island.

There are 5 ways to lose the game: economic collapse, military invasion, civil unrest, a low happiness level leading to loss of an election, or by failing to meet the requirements of the campaign's objectives. The last one mostly applies to the Colonial Era where you are under the thumb of the crown and have to keep doing tasks for them in order to extend your "life" until you can gather up enough support and money to either buy your way to independence or declare war for it. The former being the easiest option in my opinion. Other than that era, I'd say try and be neutral towards the world superpowers. It's not like you can send your military to them, but they can sure send theirs to you.
Next is keep your citizens happy and win elections.... Or just don't have elections, enact martial law and never give up power. The game lets you arrest or "remove" people you don't like. To get out of the Royal's thumb faster, I looked at all my criminals and decided to execute the Royalists (people who support the Crown), which helped tip the popularity in the Revolutionists favor. And since they were criminals, my own approval did not suffer.

All in all, the game is fun and there are a lot of ways to play. I recommend doing Mission games before making your own Sandbox. If you have played City Builders before, ignore the tutorials since the Missions basically cover everything you need to know anyway. Each one starting you on a unique map with a unique goal or focus.

I would say for the average person this is definitely worth a sale price. I got it for 65% off at 15 dollars CAD. About 10 bucks USD. Definitely a steal at that price. If its at full price... I would say it definitely holds it's own against Anno 1800 and its like half as expensive. Both games have a reliance on a trade system, and in my opinion, the Tropico dock/trade is much easier and doesn't require you to plot out your own trade routes between nations you've discovered and befriended. So if you are looking at both games and trying to figure out which to get, Tropico will save you money and is honestly more fun in my opinion. (Plus Anno requires Ubisoft Connect and its just annoying to start up).

Very fun, good graphics, entertaining, but too few missions. I would also like more missions set in colonial era or world war 1. Only the main game has colonial and rest quickly go to modern times.

Fun upbeat city builder. Played Tropico 5 back in the day on PS4. Can be played mouse only.

This is a really fun strategy society builder with great depth. It has a good SOH but not at the expense of actually being interesting. Can you get your island afloat by being nice and clever, or do you have to resort to dictatorship? Or you can of course just revel in being a villain cause that is also fun. But I like how the mechanics of the gamechallenge you as a player. However: I am playing on a Mac and the mouse pointer hitbox is constantly .5 cm off - this is infuriating. Just get it on some other platform.

Its pretty fun, and easy to learn. I have played this series from the beginning. This one is just as enjoyable as all the rest.

el presidente is the greatest leader of all time and he is worthy of leading this brilliant game

VIVA LA TROPICO!!!!!

I couldn't play this game for a while as my computer did not run fast enough. I do not know if it is me but I found myself lost while playing the game. I simply did not know what goals I was aiming for so the game went on and on in the second game? The game its self ran fine and was fun.

My vote is for El Presidente. Viva Tropico!

My favourite city builder series. A good mix between city builder, political strategy and comedy.

I have been playing Tropico 6 for a long time, and I really enjoy the game. However, I feel that the current trade route limit is too restrictive, especially when managing a large economy.

Would it be possible to increase the number of trade routes per dock or allow multiple contracts per port? This would significantly improve economic management and provide more flexibility in exporting goods.

Many players would benefit from this feature, and I believe it would make the game even more enjoyable.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

to many glitches that make the game unplayable you can tell by simply looking at how long the games been out and how many updates they do to fix constant issues with economy and path finding its a joke

This game is really great !

You can build your own style country and be the president.

I think this is the best city building game on this current time.

Can't wait for Tropico 7 !

Tropico 6 intimately thought me the importance of growth or stagnation on a Caribbean island and irl 1/10

Lots of fun to be had, even with the economic frustrations! I've enjoyed the last few Tropico games including the most recent - 6 - but maybe slightly less than the previous ones. It's really addicting once you nail the basics of building the tropical city of paradise. I've mostly focused on the story missions, and believe they have added a unique challenge in each.

I do recommend the game overall if you have any desire in city building, and don't mind researching the ins and outs of a reasonably deep game. There are some fairly cool systems to be found. However, one thing I've found fairly consistently frustrating (even compared with the previous games) is the economic system. You need to learn and stick to a few core neighbourhood building concepts to stay running, and research some tips for success (watch online videos). It is way too easy to get in the red and never come out, even when only purchasing industry, agriculture, etc. In many cases too - you have to go into debt to build your economy but at the same time you can go bankrupt unpredictably. I've routinely hit the message to quite the game or continue when at -$50k mark, yet end up winning later after fast forwarding x4, waiting & watching. Then again other times, I wait & watch and wast my time as I can't do nothing and eventually go deeper in red.

There are so many kinds of costs to your society for everything you do and place in the city including movement of workers throughout their neighbourhoods, policies, living! This is great for micro-mangers, but can be more frustrating if not wanting to micromanage and desperately search for the excessive cost overruns.

I look forward to 7!

Love this game, uncomplicated city builder that has fun lil stories. Difficulty scaling is good too, if you want to really challenge yourself.

(Yes I know a lot of the features I discuss were already introduced in Tropico 5)

The good:
+ Far more content than any other Tropico game, you can play for hours and hours and never get bored
+ Ridiculously addictive
+ The eras system greatly increases the longevity of games
+ Plantations having a fixed growing area makes farming a lot more predictable
+ Raids are really fun
+ Really good graphics
+ The archipelago system, where you can control multiple islands instead of just one, is great
+ Basically just Tropico 5 but improved in every feasible way
+ The difficulty curve feels balanced and natural, the earlier games could get pretty easy once you've figured it all out, but difficulty adjustment feels more balanced in this game

The meh:
~ The dynasty system from 5 was removed, I know some disliked dynasties but I didn't mind them
~ You certainly can play as a malevolent, self-centered asshole, but I feel like the game tends to reward benevolance more
~ The budget system does remove some micromanagement, but doesn't feel as in depth as the individual sliders you had in the earlier games
~ The political satire and humor is still there, but I feel like it's taken a backseat to the gameplay
~ I would personally like the combat in these games to have an overhaul, as it mostly just boils down to who has more troops
~ Has a bigger scale than Tropico 1-4, but I feel like that bigger scale makes you feel more separated from your citizens

The bad:
- The missions aren't that fun and don't feel as engaging as the campaigns from previous games
- Your economy is too reliant on teamsters, teamster spam is one of the most effective ways to maximize your earnings

Overall thoughts:
6 is by far the most content rich and replayable Tropico, the gameplay loop is really refined and fun, and basically every new feature is good. Just in terms of pure gameplay, it's probably the best in the series However, I do feel like it's lost a bit of what made Tropico special. Like I said, the bigger scale and smaller focus on humor does feel like it strips away some of that Tropico spice, to the point where the late game kinda just feels like tropical Simcity, rather than a real Tropico game. However, that doesn't take away that the game is extremely fun, if you like city builders, this is a must play.

Great game! Always enjoy starting new islands when I get an idea for more efficient layouts, making me super rich very quickly no matter the difficulty. Definitely buy this game!!

Kalypso just released a large patch in preparation for their new DLC: Return to Nature. Custom parks, numerous bug fixes, etc. Do not listen to any negative reviews of this game. It is one of my absolute favorites. Although there could have been more innovations in the base game, the DLCs flesh the game out nicely. I buy them full price because I can't wait for the sales.

I don't find myself running out of ideas for how to differentiate my playthroughs. The scenarios are very cute and engaging although sometimes fall into the introducing new mechanics trope. This game will have you on your toes between rebels, factions, foreign powers, etc.

It's actually a very upbeat interesting game compared to something like C:SL which in my opinion lacks charm and personality.

I have no complaints about this game. If I had to come up with one it would be that: I don't know what to do when I get millions of dollars other than indulge in corruption and drain my coffers in a procedural manner.

Fun open world game. Mining, farming, building city, hotels, attractions, etc. Same as other Tropico's more things to build and more sandbox templates available.

Viva La Tropico. Fun city (island) building game with lots of silly quirks. Each Era has its own challenges and funny characters, and watching your island modernize is very satisfying. 7/10

Interesting concept, very poorly implemented. The game has some idiotic tasks and missions that you have to complete, very easy to go bankrupt or mess up all the stats since you get forced to play a certain way because of tasks. The performance is also poorly optimized..

Starting from a small village of only 1000 people ! LipTopia is now a metropolis a vast city that would make the gods lust with envy !

A well planned public transport system that does not work !
A well funded police network that is uneducated !
A fire department that has no running water !
A garbage collection service that has the dump at city centre !
A oil industry sector on land that has no oil !
A welfare and hospital system that takes a week to get a small appointment !
And a slight just a lil (maybe alot) corrupt local government !

This is the best city in the word why ?
Because I said so ! (hands you some cash)

A nice city builder with some funky music, multiplayer is nice but i wish there was more you could do more with the other player interaction wise
but overall a good game

Fun and quite addicting. There are so many different ways to play the game that it doesn't really get repetitive as long as you don't play 24/7 (aka have a life).

Wish it was story based like T5 instead of missions based but its a great city sim that i love to come back to.

Either release the Mod Kit, even if it's a paid application, or put out a separate application that we can make custom maps on. I play the heck out of Command and Conquer because I can play home brew maps, Tropico 6 would dominate my time an my wallet if I could do the same.
Second, yall need to fix the information/details for many of the functions and upgrades, they are not clear.

its an okay game, i wish you had more control of your army. also the multiplayer is complete broken which kind of sucks

Fun, challenging and time consuming, but overall, I really enjoy playing the game, even after I finished the missions.

I absolutely love this game! If you're a fan of Sim City, Transport Fever, or other city builders and logistic manager type games, I think you'll enjoy this one too.

The writers of the dialogue in this game were brilliant, they poke fun at all sorts of 'normal' country activities. The music is fun and entertaining, the graphics are quite relaxing, and I can start and restart this game a hundred times and still not be sick of it.

Honestly I have tried to like this game but the mechanics of workers not showing up drive me insane. I find this game is a constant struggle to move around housing and build transit routes to try and get the people to go to work but no matter what it remains a problem.

Its a fun little game to just chill out to the music and play various ways. You can make it fairly easy by just using all the default options - or difficult like banning religion when you have religious factions on your island.

I only wish they had more music to listen to on loop.

Great City Simulation Game I ever played with surreal economic and International trading system

Great way to spend 2 hours at a time. scenarios are fun and can be challenging if your pretty bad at this game (like me)

Tropico 6 goes a long way towards expanding the game play and includes new features... but there is no story content like Tropico 5 had. You play on maps with specific goals, then unlock new maps to play. By the 3rd map you can tell where the game is going and what improvements have been made, which leaves little reason to play anymore content as there is no story. There is no incentive to regress your technology to re build the same things over and over again.

Looks prettier. Still disappointing.

Good game...i didn't like the fact game was artificially keeps certain number of people...i wanted to keep every sungle person alive...but the game killing them without a reason.stopled because of that

Interface is much better than the last Tropico game. Missions are fun. Road-building's still as twitchy as it's ever been in Tropico, but I'm enjoying the game, overall.

i love games like this, and hopefully i will return to play this game for many hours. however, the game has 4 zoom distances. intimate up-close inspection, much too close, too close, and outer space. if there were a couple zoom modes between too close and outer space, this game would be that much better.