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Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Tropico 5 is a strategy, city builder and simulation game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media Digital.
Released on May 23rd 2014 is available on Windows and Linux in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish and Japanese.

It has received 14,102 reviews of which 11,072 were positive and 3,030 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows 8
  • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce 400 or higher, AMD Radeon HD 4000 or higher, Intel HD 4000 or higher (DirectX 11 hardware support required)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX compatible
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu/SteamOS (latest)
  • Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core CPU
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce 400 or higher, AMD Radeon HD 4000 or higher, Intel HD 4000 or higher
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

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March 2025
Tropico 5 isn't a bad iteration on the series, but it makes a lot of changes to the formula and ends up losing some of the charm from its predecessors. Tropico 4 + Modern Times (and a couple other DLC), is a more fun Tropico experience which maintains the core gameplay I always loved from the series. If you like a chilled city builder that doesn't constantly breathe down your neck, that's in many ways a better game. This one is ok for some variation, has more challenge and more micromanaging with economy/trade. The annoying part is that it typically comes in form of tasks to accomplish on a timer, which means often restarting maps until you find a working strategy. But that mostly applies to the campaign, and there's always free play. DLC are mostly crap, though. Even heavily discounted the only ones worth consideration are Waterborne, Espionage and Generalissimo.
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Feb. 2025
This is my second favorite version of Tropico, but perhaps the one I play the most when I get the itch to be a big dictator. The Pros: ======== 1) It has a native Linux client that performs very well. I wish everyone would target Linux. I'm a huge supporter of developers that do. 2) There is an overarching story that drives the campaign. Each mission builds on the previous mission in a great way so it doesn't always feel like you are starting from scratch when beginning a mission. 3) Penultimo...nuff said. Cons: ===== 1) They took out El Presidente giving speeches to the citizens of Tropico. That was one of my favorite features of Tropico 4. I miss giving the speeches. 2) In fact, El Presidente doesn't really do much in this version. You have El Presidente and his family, but they don't really do anything but walk around. El Presidente has had more important roles in previous versions. If your going to role play as a dictator then make that role somehow important to the game. This has relegated Tropico 5 to nothing more than a city builder. Sure, you can assassinate people or have them jailed, but there really isn't a good reason to do that. The inner politics of Tropico have been dumbed down a great deal, in favor for more juggling of support from external powers. As a result, Tropico loses that zany banana republic feel it had in previous versions.
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Dec. 2024
You're El Presidente, the benevolent dictator who can build schools, arrest elderly loving couples across the street... or just tax the heck out of bananas and pineapples. Guide your island through the ages, from colonial times to modern chaos, all while dodging coups, bribing superpowers, and pretending you know how an economy works. Viva El Presidente!
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Nov. 2024
It is still fun, though I would say it isn't really better than other entries in the series. I would recommend 3 and 4 more.
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Sept. 2024
It's a solid game that generally has good pacing in giving you new mechanics. the Early game is definitely the most packed when it comes to quests with each reward being extremely helpful and will lead you to focus on them but later on the quests just become something to do and most of the rewards are stuff like +10 relations with USSR. This is sort of a consequence of how the campaign is the shining star of the gamemodes. The campaign lets you choose the island map you use for each mission and it saves your progress for each island which is fantastic but it means most of the content in the late game is set around the missions objectives and events as opposed to random events and quests your stuck with in sandbox. The DLC specific scenarios are great once shots as well though they can discourage the city building elements in favor of whatever the specific expansion adds. There are some more extended quest chains in sandbox mainly from DLCs but unfortunately they are immediately canceled when you enter the next era. The ONLY real issue I have had with the game which only popped up years after I started playing the game is that whenever I try to load or save the game it immediately crashes to desktop. EDIT - Turns out the reason the game crashed is because there was a corrupted save, every time you choose to save or load a game you get to see a list of all save games, because a file was corrupted every time the game attempted to show this list it ran into this corruption and crashed.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Tropico 5 is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

Tropico 5 is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

Tropico 5 received 11,072 positive votes out of a total of 14,102 achieving a rating of 7.69.
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Tropico 5 was developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media Digital.

Tropico 5 is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Tropico 5 is not playable on MacOS.

Tropico 5 is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Tropico 5 offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Tropico 5 includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There are 13 DLCs available for Tropico 5. Explore additional content available for Tropico 5 on Steam.

Tropico 5 is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Tropico 5 does not support Steam Remote Play.

Tropico 5 is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Tropico 5
7.7
11,072
3,030
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
76
Developer
Haemimont Games
Publisher
Kalypso Media Digital
Release 23 May 2014
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