Can anyone recommend Tropico 6 to me?

[CritialGaming]

I have been seeing Tropico everywhere. All over my Steam recommends, Twitch, Youtube ads. It looks interesting but I can't quite place what it is.

Is it like a city builder? Or more like a Civ game? Perhaps something similar to the recent Jurassic World Evolution.

Can anyone explain this game and whether or not it's worth giving a try if I've never played a previous entry before?

 

[Worgen]

Its a city builder/nation builder and its pretty fun I spend a decent number of hours in Tropico 3. You rule over an island nation that recently broke off from colonial rule and you have to make things work. Which might involve being a brutal dictator, or might not.

 

[CritialGaming]

Its a city builder/nation builder and its pretty fun I spend a decent number of hours in Tropico 3. You rule over an island nation that recently broke off from colonial rule and you have to make things work. Which might involve being a brutal dictator, or might not.

So a story-based builder? Does it hold up under multiple playthroughs?

 

[Worgen]

Its a city builder/nation builder and its pretty fun I spend a decent number of hours in Tropico 3. You rule over an island nation that recently broke off from colonial rule and you have to make things work. Which might involve being a brutal dictator, or might not.

So a story-based builder? Does it hold up under multiple playthroughs?

Well, the way it worked in Tropico 3 was there were a bunch of scenarios that you would play through, each with a different goal, like increase tourism, ship a certain number of barrels of oil, suppress a rebellion, or either become capitalist or communist enough to join the us or ussr. You could free play them also or just do a freeplay island kinda thing too.

 

[CritialGaming]

Its a city builder/nation builder and its pretty fun I spend a decent number of hours in Tropico 3. You rule over an island nation that recently broke off from colonial rule and you have to make things work. Which might involve being a brutal dictator, or might not.

So a story-based builder? Does it hold up under multiple playthroughs?

Well, the way it worked in Tropico 3 was there were a bunch of scenarios that you would play through, each with a different goal, like increase tourism, ship a certain number of barrels of oil, suppress a rebellion, or either become capitalist or communist enough to join the us or ussr. You could free play them also or just do a freeplay island kinda thing too.

Well I am interested. Maybe I'll pick up a Tropico on sale and see how it goes.

Thanks Worgen

 

[Leg End]

Alright. This may get a bit long-winded. Tropico as a series is you taking the role of a Dictator in a Banana Republic and maintaining your position by whatever means you see fit, while smuggling a bit for yourself on the side in your Swiss Bank Account(that's actually what it is by name). You could go the total Benevolence route and actually give a fuck about your communist slave labor citizens, making sure they have all of life's necessities and then some, like actually good schooling, healthcare, and more rations. Or you can go full Dicktator and gun down your political opponents, rig elections, and have everyone starving in bread lines while you give your soldiers free blowjobs so they'll stay loyal and keep gunning down their countrymen that the state police determine to be undesirables. Realistically, you're going to be somewhere in-between.

The entire game takes the format of, as stated by Worg, a City/Nation builder with numerous scenarios and, depending on the game in the series, a (mostly)solid campaign experience, along with the expected free play options. Replayability is pretty high if you like to go back and experiment with what works with your kind of playstyle. Think of it like going back to SimCity and fucking around, watching stuff just exist.

I've not mentioned 6 yet specifically because, frankly, every game excluding 2 has been pretty much the same thing, just with graphics changes and various enhancements to the formula. When 3 came out, it was said to be a 3D remake of the first game, and that's arguably correct. 4 wasn't much different, but added a few really nice things on the side, so it beat 3 out. 5 added some more stuff, including Dynasties which nobody gave a damn about, while also removing some things from 4. Finally getting to 6, it looks like they took the great from 4 and the things anyone gave a damn about from 5, and added some really nice shit like actually building bridges and shit between islands.

TL;DR Played any SimCity that wasn't the shitty new one, and felt like you wanted to get more politics and humor? Maybe have your military gun down political opponents and protesters? Maybe you just like Llamas? Get the game and enjoy absolute power, now with bridges and landmark theft, and probably all the crap that was DLC in 5, like creameries.

 

[meiam]

Yeah there city builder, the single player are usually not that amazing since city builder story mode have the problem where you constantly have to rebuild your city at the beginning or start with something that's already mostly build and that's never very fun. There very tongue in cheek/comedy story.

As far as the dictator aspect, it's pretty weak. It's never really hard to stay in power so you never have that much of a reason to go full dictator. Sure you could start killing people that belong to a certain ideology, but it's easier and cheaper just to build whatever they want and pacify them.

None of them are that different from each others, so the best "demo" for one would be to just buy an earlier one for cheap (I'd recommend 4) play a bit and see if you like it. 5 added "era" and technology research to it, 6 big selling point is that you can have multiple island and control an archipelago, but not sure how much that's going to modify the experience.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I only ever played Tropico in a sandbox mode. Lots of fun. Not once have I touched the scenarios though. And Tropico 1 is still my favorite in the series. Something about those old-school sprite graphics and the music is so enchanting.