Posted on: August 30, 2021

WishmasterTheDark

Games: 169 Reviews: 21

Kalypso’s Fifteen Years Of Shame

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.

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Posted on: September 10, 2018

ReginaRC

Verified owner

Games: 85 Reviews: 19

I should have read more reviews

I had played a Tropico game years ago and I was excited to try this one. I'm thinking I should have read the reviews, because what I loved about the old one was that if I wanted to just build my town I could do that in Sandbox Mode. I can't do the same thing here, at all. No, instead if I want to start in the Colonial era I will eventually end up having to get invaded, and despite playing at an easy difficulty level it doesn't matter how many troops I have, the AI has more, and every stinkin' time the AI WILL run my units around in the worst way possible (like, oh yeah, let's wipe out all of our infantry by trying to kill the invading tanks, so there's no one left to defend the palace--that'll show those guys!) And despite my opting to pay off the Axis so they wouldn't invade, they took my money and still invaded! I just spent hours building a nicely laid-out town to have it all go up in ruins, so I'm a little ticked off about that.

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Posted on: December 15, 2021

Shuangli

Verified owner

Games: 298 Reviews: 14

Great Fun, Unique Game

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.

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Posted on: August 3, 2018

defalkner

Games: 10 Reviews: 2

average but not excellent

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.

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Posted on: February 6, 2020

TheinsanegamerN

Verified owner

Games: 168 Reviews: 4

The Tropico magic has run out

Tropico 5 bring many changes to gameplay to T5, and is much faster paced. Some of those changes are great, such as significantly higher patient loads for hospitals, gender roles being eliminated (meaning no waves of unemployed women in late game) and near instant production making it significantly easier to get your economy running. It gets boring fast. The campaign isnt as zany as previous campaigns, and it gets WAY too easy since you can make money in a single month by building plantations/factories. There is no ramp up like previous tropico games. Much of the strategy has been removed, for instance a church can have up to 200 customers, a hospital 450, ece, and you just need to match those numbers to your total population, you win. For some reason, to have high happiness, everyone on your island needs to be able to visit the hospital, church, supermarket, and entertainment ALL at the same time. The military has 0 strategy. You build barracks and hope your military units go to where the rebels are (you can set priority if there is more then 1 area targeted, but this seems to be a suggestion) and hope they SHOOT the rebels instead of just running past and getting destroyed. Foreign invasions only ever attack from your original dock, so just surround it with defense towers and foreign powers will never be a problem. Then there are the bugs. Traffic is abysmal, there is simply no way to manage it, and without being able to manage it your teamsters get caught up and cant deliver goods to your dock. For some reason, plantations and factories will produce regardless of where their workers are, but the goods? Oh no, you have to actually GET the teamsters to each individual location. And since windows 10 1903, there has been an audio bug with the game that causes near instant crashes. The steam version has been fixed, but not the GoG version, and kalypso doesnt seem interested in supporting the game. Avoid this one, just get Tropico 4 and enjoy that instead.

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