Tropico 6

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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 180 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 87 out of 180
  2. Mixed: 52 out of 180
  3. Negative: 41 out of 180
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  1. symeon
    Apr 18, 2019
    1
    They just keep releasing the same game with slightly better graphics. Compared to other city building games, there is no real challenge or depth.

    Maybe buy it in a sale.
  2. namnloes
    May 29, 2019
    0
    How can this game have such a high score? Expected a masterpiece, but could barely stand more than thirty minutes. Probably the worst strategy game experience ever. Wow.
  3. Sjalka
    Apr 11, 2019
    4
    I recognize that this is a good game - i guess. It looks pretty and it has some good charme. But there are some aspects that i really, really do not like .. at all.

    - the size ... the islands are tiny. There is no feeling of scale. The nation is smaller than a miniature village .. it all makes no sense at all in terms of presentation - the humor ... is kind of lame. The light tone it    I recognize that this is a good game - i guess. It looks pretty and it has some good charme. But there are some aspects that i really, really do not like .. at all.

    - the size ... the islands are tiny. There is no feeling of scale. The nation is smaller than a miniature village .. it all makes no sense at all in terms of presentation

    - the humor ... is kind of lame. The light tone it takes when it comes to an island dictatorship is in the wrong place - for my taste.

    - the sense of micro and macro management ... is lacking. Compared to games like Anno 1405, Cities Skyline or similar .. there really is not much behind the pretty fascade.

    All in all, i liked the colourful graphics, but i do not care for the game.    … Expand
  4. lolrofl
    Mar 31, 2019
    1
    Bascially the same as Tropico 5, but full of technical Bugs, and lots of flawed game mechanics. Seems like nowadays devs prefer presentation over game Depth. It gets boring after 1 hour after you have figured out how the game works. Recommendation: Wait until the next sale and a couple of Patches. Game is unfinished, almost all beta Bugs were carried over to release.
  5. Rus_Ber
    Apr 2, 2019
    1
    Не более чем аддон к 5й части с парой модов. Полное разочарование. Не стоит он своих денег. ФА ведь будет ещё 100500 длс к игре...
  6. TheFoo
    Aug 6, 2019
    3
    Core of the game is alright, but a huge number of game breaking bugs and a lack of a functioning multiplayer save feature have really ruined this game for me.
  7. Tomaso
    May 31, 2019
    3
    Cmon, it's 2019 and they release something like this?
    I wish one day some developer will take as much effort to construct solid gameplay as they do to deliver graphics - but even they are not so up to date here.
    This game has the set of features that annoy me the most in economic/management games: - management is flimsy and chaotic, - no graphs or clear data on how much you    Cmon, it's 2019 and they release something like this?
    I wish one day some developer will take as much effort to construct solid gameplay as they do to deliver graphics - but even they are not so up to date here.

    This game has the set of features that annoy me the most in economic/management games:
    - management is flimsy and chaotic,
    - no graphs or clear data on how much you produce/export or already have (each bulding has it own counter)
    - you can't control delivery chains,
    - the builders and deliverers seem to roam randomly, rather to have their areas or priorities,
    - maps are tiny and clunky,
    - buildings have 1-way entrance,
    - road autobuild sometimes goes crazy stupid,
    - not really many different ways to develop, as resources are pre-set,
    - some perks are utterly stupid (oh wiat, they are "funny"), while some are OP-ish

    Maybe OK for casual playing - the setting is still quite unique and enjoyable, but if you have any experience in this type of games, Tropico 6 might disappoint you.

    And if you played previous Tropicos - don't buy it or wait until it's really cheap so the devs and publisher get their lesson.
    It's the same all over again. Old broken gameplay with new layout that actually looks like from 2005.    … Expand
  8. leyaotang
    Jul 3, 2021
    4
    Tropico 6 is quite fast food compared to what it appears to be the impact it is trying to make.

    Tropico 6 unlike Tropico 3 and Tropico 4 (while having some of the charm of Caribbean culture) lacks that soul of Tropico 3 and Tropico 4 that have attracted so much in the past decade. If we think about what would be the moto in the current Tropico games that followed the isometric old    Tropico 6 is quite fast food compared to what it appears to be the impact it is trying to make.

    Tropico 6 unlike Tropico 3 and Tropico 4 (while having some of the charm of Caribbean culture) lacks that soul of Tropico 3 and Tropico 4 that have attracted so much in the past decade.
    If we think about what would be the moto in the current Tropico games that followed the isometric old Tropico games, it could be: the promise not of another type of more complete simulation, but of an emulated interactive social integration that could bring perhaps a non-realism of a structure in which the player could venture into the tropics comically and politically. It's a problem with several games from various western franchises that moved from isometric to 3D. When we imagined in 2D and text-based we used more our skills, knowledges and creativity. At a lower resolution we were able to figure out how to venture into what the game couldn't offer visually, and sometimes this was very positive as the game designers themselves invested more in plot and dialogue to compensate. However, with the promise of 3D, the sides that we could show in these games didn't show up very well as power of involvement, immersion, flow. Tropic 3, 4 and 5 carried out this change reasonably - right there it already seemed to be the limit of this change from isometric 2D, there would be no way to expand the game much. In Tropic 6, we can sense the limit in plot weakness and auxiliary character interactions in short, repeated dialogues, which already existed in reasonably the same way in previous Tropico games. There hasn't been a huge expansion of what we'd really like to experience in Tropico - politics. I want to be more tyrant, or more hard-line or more corrupt!
    With Tropic 6, the multiplayer online game could be the big change, but it wasn't enough. The online mode could keep the player for a few more hours of gameplay, but overall at around 10 hours of gameplay the average young adult player who already knows similar games tends to drop their saves.
    Optmization - Low. That Unreal Engine build needs 16GB RAM and SSD to run properly.
    Accessibility - very low.
    Strong suit - in Tropic 6 it's relatively easy to enable an infinite money mode and unlock more features and quickly advance the ages (including the dark Swiss Broker feature - that it is very fun -) - although this facility makes the player quickly resort to an overpower path/ god mode.    … Expand
  9. bladex
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
    This game is pathetic no matter what you do you start out ok but the more you build the worse it gets. you never make enough money to cover expenses you end up reducing their budget which makes the people unhappy than they rebel against you you never seem to make enough money from trades or freight and eventually you get hit with a domino effect and end up in the red -50k. 90% of the gameThis game is pathetic no matter what you do you start out ok but the more you build the worse it gets. you never make enough money to cover expenses you end up reducing their budget which makes the people unhappy than they rebel against you you never seem to make enough money from trades or freight and eventually you get hit with a domino effect and end up in the red -50k. 90% of the game your just sitting there doing nothing waiting to get more money which you never get!… Expand
  10. Pashu1289
    Aug 30, 2021
    1
    Three years from the release date and still no Ukrainian localization :( Cant recommend.
  11. Enterich
    Feb 28, 2020
    2
    I really love the Tropico series, but this has been a huge step down. No campaign other than random missions that have zero interaction with each other, a LOT less charm on the characters, an incredibly clunky "Research" system and outright baffling pathing makes this game not as fun as the rest. Just get 4 or 5.
  12. Jelmie
    Sep 3, 2020
    4
    Okey game. But it's a bit too similar to 5. So not recommended. Also the new buildings felt a bit redunded

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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 62 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 62
  3. Negative: 0 out of 62
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Jul 8, 2019
    80
    Tropico 6 rises to be a worthy successor of Tropico 4, taking the franchise back on the track with its archipelago system and return of some of the old features from the previous games.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 15, 2019
    83
    Limbic Entertainment just took the reins of the series, so they didn’t change much, but when they did – they made the gameplay better and more diverse. [Issue#237, p.32]
  3. Game Debate
    Apr 30, 2019
    80
    Despite all of this griping, and all of these complaints, Tropico 6 is still sort of fun. Partly it's just watching the numbers going up. When the freighter arrives in port and your first shipment of electronics goes to market, netting you enough money to build a new stadium, it's like a little pat on the head that can be weirdly addictive. There are certainly some bugs that probably shouldn't exist on the fourth (fifth? sixth?) iteration of essentially the same game, but the special sauce that has allowed them to actually get away with making six Tropico games is still there.
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