Tropico 5

Every market we collect.

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 769/day in the week to Jul 17 → 0.57/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,419 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 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.

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 834 reviews with recorded playtime.

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[h1]🌍 [i]Tropico 5[/i] - El Presidente Never Retires[/h1] [b]What I Played:[/b] I've been running island nations since the original Tropico back in the day, and honestly this series has been a constant in my gaming life. 66 hours into Tropico 5 and I'm still finding reasons to start "just one more mandate." This time around I played through the entire era progression from colonial times all the way to modern day, ran a few multiplayer sessions with a buddy, and spent way too long in the level editor pretending I'm some kind of Caribbean urban planner. [b]The Good:[/b] [list] [*]The era system is genuinely the best addition to the franchise. Going from colonial survival to cold war political juggling to modern tourism empires gives every playthrough this great sense of progression that earlier Tropicos never had. As someone who started from Tropico 1, watching the series evolve to this point is kind of beautiful. [*]Dynasty system adds real personality. Having your family members govern different buildings and level up over generations makes you actually care about your ruling bloodline. My minister of defense has been carrying my regime since the World Wars era. [*]The multiplayer co-op is surprisingly fun. Building neighboring islands with a friend and trading resources back and forth scratches an itch I didn't know I had in a city builder. [*]Still has that classic Tropico humor. The radio announcements, the ridiculous election speeches, the citizen bios — it's all there and it still makes me laugh after all these hours. [/list] [b]The Bad:[/b] [list] [*]Combat is clunky and feels tacked on. Military conflicts boil down to "build more army bases and hope for the best." It's the weakest part of an otherwise solid game. [*]The AI factions can be annoyingly binary sometimes. You're either their best friend or public enemy number one, not much nuance in between. Veterans of the older games will notice the diplomacy feels simplified. [/list] [b]Verdict:[/b] [b]Recommended[/b] - Five games deep into this series and I'm still hooked. Tropico 5 isn't perfect, but it's the most accessible and feature-rich entry for newcomers while still having enough depth to keep longtime fans like me building one more plantation at 2 AM. El Presidente approves.