Tropico 6 from Limbic Entertainment

[Marat]

Tropico 4 is the best one in the series. The only improvement that came after it was the new army system which afforded you some measure of command and the ability to repel invading superpower cuban style. All this shit that came later: dynasty system, era progression, stupid customization, the fucking world wonders (who came up with this shit), I don't care for it one bit. The series should stick to the Cold War and dark, political humor, not this wacky bullshit.

 

[Atlantico]

Tropico 6. It's a mix of Evil Genius and Sim City, built on top of Tropico.

It is now more of an economy/city sim than ever. That's not a bad thing, if you want to play such a game.

Tropico was originally a subversion of those kinds of games, but with Tropico 6, it has become what it used to parody.

As a sandbox game for a Caribbean-island city sim, it's fine! That's damning with faint praise. Tropico is not supposed to be a sandbox Caribbean simcity with atrocious dad-jokes.

Yet, that is exactly what it has become. It's not a bad game, not in isolation, but it's not Tropico either.

When Haemimont and the Germans took over the development of the Tropico series, and made Tropico 3, they made a fairly faithful, but soulless 3D version of the first Tropico game. Ever since then, they've been moving it farther and farther into Simcity: Caribbean Island. They don't know what else to do with it, the concept of Tropico is inherently problematic today and to embrace it fully, would probably be attacked as crypto-fascist and politically incorrect.

Tropico 6:

Upsides
It's the best Caribbean simcity ever made

Downsides
It's the best Caribbean simcity ever made

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

it's still extremely limited as a city builder. 1600 pops max is ridiculous.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Does it have the cheery music though?

 

[Marat]

Soundtrack also went downhill after 4. I remember tracks from 5 being absolute shite.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Tropico suffers from the old German disease, a once fun idea but now it's like someone telling the same joke over and over for 15 years.

I don't understand how they can keep going on with the same recycled ideas and why they do not come up for example with a North Korea version, or one about the horrors of the EU, that would revive the concept. Making fun of South American dictators is certainly a lot less fun than it used to be.