Tropico 5

Tropico 5 has not been patched properly. Getting in touch with Kalypso staff was impossible, as they tend to avoid all means of communication with them, regardless of the platform. Because of that, I will only review the game-breaking bugs the game has: 1.) There is a game-breaking bug, which triggers the uprising, the military buildings receive the target marks above them, the crowd keeps running in the streets with the arms, but they do not have the uprisers marker above them. The military gets grouped in front of the targeted buildings prepared to defend them, but they do not attack the uprisers, because the uprisers have not been marked, and they do not attack the buildings nor the army. This makes the sandbox mode impossible to be played long term, with constitution options other than democracy, because the democracy constitution option doesn’t allow the uprisings. Thus, roleplaying a totalitarian or police state is impossible. It is not possible to build military buildings during this time, as the uprising is in progress, but it is not functional, because of the bug. 2.) After the uprising has been over, there are buildings which remain empty due to the population loss. The problem is that those buildings do not get repopulated by other people, who got into the work force, and have the wealth required to live inside of them. Instead, the player is forced to demolish those bugged buildings, and build the new ones, so the population can start moving in. It is a waste of money, a waste of time as the construction workers become occupied rebuilding the same residential buildings over and over again and it creates unnecessary traffic jams. It makes sandbox mode unplayable in the long run. 3.) Tourism cap in the game leaves lots of hotels empty. 4.) The oil refinery in the sea does not become removed sometimes once the oil deposit has been depleted, thus making the scenery uglier.

Much fun to play. Much better then part 4, reminds me of the first game of the series. Graphics look much better then on the screenshots too. Works without problems on my Win10 Laptop with integrated (evo) graphic-card.

I dont get it. I see all the great reviews but IMO tropico 5 is somewhat a shallow game. I only have the base game and it it's like a screwed up sim city thats themed but Im not having much fun. It runs fairly good but needs some serious optimizations on newer hardware. I feel as though Im micromanaging too much too frequently and unable to get a good grasp on the economics. I dont know I have over 20+ hours and maybe Im missing something but its not as enguaging as I thought it would be. It's cute, but exhausting too.

I agree with others that rebels are too vicious and strong, but you may also be if you build an aircraft carrier and a lot of machine gun towers. AI always finds your weakest moment to attack. So getting a healthy economy is hard, but once you reach the modern times era it becomes easy. Just pop a few offices and watch your debt melt and budget grow. Offices are absurdly powerful economy buildlngs which make debts a history. You can also get rich if you produce the right goods but that is much harder because of your uneducated civilians. So if you prioritize the army and then economy buildings, it becomes a joy to run this beautiful simulation. The graphics are the best of the series and game runs smoothly on old systems as well.

Disclaimer: I have only played Tropico 4 and 5. While the graphics in Tropico 5 are a great improvement, the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired. It feels like certain choices are forced on you and small mistakes can cost you the game. Some features are also missing, such as the ability to stop immigrants arriving, as was possible in Tropico 4. (Due to some issue regarding sound in Windows 10 which causes the game to crash, I have been playing without sound, so I have missed that aspect as well).