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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 14,123 reviews of which 11,092 were positive and 3,031 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.78€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Tropico 5 into these genres:

Strategy City Builder Simulation Sandbox Multiplayer Economy Politics Management Resource Management Singleplayer Comedy Co-op RPG Historical Great Soundtrack RTS Funny Atmospheric Open World Adventure

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
Tedious, beautiful, the economy doesn't really work, excellent set of items and graphics. Maybe look at Tropico 4 where the economy works.
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April 2025
Graphics 6/10 Control 4/10 Difficulty 5/10 Addictedness 4/10 Age Rate - Any Player Anger - Non Pay To Win? - No Play Without Friend - good Cheater Rate - Non Is It Worth It - YES its fantastic
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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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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 11,092 positive votes out of a total of 14,123 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
19.99€ -97% 19.99€ 0.78€ -90% 19.99€ 2.10€
7.7
11,092
3,031
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
111
Developer
Haemimont Games
Publisher
Kalypso Media Digital
Release 23 May 2014
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