The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1/day in the week to Sep 1 → 1.14/day in the week after.
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Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; GOG, Xbox publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $14.99 | 8.2Kreviews | 92% | — | $4.6M |
| $5.99−60% | 417ratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 844 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Интересно, лампово и не душно)
Tropico 4 is probably my favorite Tropico game for pure fun. Tropico 5 is more modern and adds some interesting things, but there is something about Tropico 4 that just feels simpler and more enjoyable. You can immediately get into it without having to worry about a million different systems, and before you know it, you've spent hours turning a tiny island into a ridiculous dictatorship. Being El Presidente is still the best part. You can actually try to run a decent country, keep everyone happy and build a functioning economy, or you can become the most corrupt dictator imaginable. Steal money, manipulate elections, favor certain factions, imprison people you don't like... the game gives you plenty of opportunities to be a terrible leader. The economy is also really satisfying. Starting with a few farms and basic industries and slowly moving toward more advanced production and exports gives you that nice feeling of progression without becoming overly complicated. And honestly, the humor carries the game so well. The announcer, the characters, the ridiculous situations and the way the game makes fun of dictatorships make even the management side entertaining. The campaign is also something I really enjoyed. The missions have more personality than simply being given an empty island and being told to build a city, and they constantly give you different objectives to work around.
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Every market we collect.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Poland over the last 30 days: the 21 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 12 places towards #1, and the 2,501 moves with no price cut behind them went 1 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, German*, Italian*, Spanish - Spain*, Korean*languages with full audio support
| $9.99 |
| 331ratings |
| 80% |
| — |
| not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 848 reviews with recorded playtime.
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[b]What worked well:[/b] [list] [*] Factions provide interesting additional goals and challenges. [/list] [b]What didn't work well:[/b] [list] [*] Can't change keybindings for most of the commands, and the keyboard shortcuts for most things were unintuitive. [*] No way (that I found) to change the game speed with the keyboard, requiring using the mouse to click the bottom-left of the screen to pause or change speed. [/list] [b]Other notes:[/b] The sequels are much better so this version isn't really worth playing, but if I reviewed this game when it was still new I would have recommended it.
A chill city builder but the campaign ends with a whimper. There is no sense of progression and all of the challenges are generally approached the same way. Fun but simple, repetitive, and unmemorable.
i can be super kind like gandhi or just goes full vader, amazing
Un des meilleurs de la série avec les extensions
Viva El Presidente! Viva Tropico! I like the 3/4 era better than 5/6 admittedly
Viva los monkeys, presidente
very charming and memorable
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
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