i would totally instabuy cities skylines as well. definitely up there with the releases i most want.

I enjoyed the first few Tropicos, but skipped #5 because at some point it felt like getting more of the same. Is there enough new stuff here for an interested but slightly jaded person like me to justify the price tag?

From what I've seen, it's the first one that doesn't use a variant of the Tropico 3 engine, bridges/tunnels are finally a thing, many more global powers can be negotiated with, and you're no longer limited to just one island per map.

Are you trying to say you are acknowledging the existence of Tropico 2 and actually plan to play it!
I'm shocked, sir, I truly am! :O
Close to finishing Tropico 3 campaign over here. Playing a mission or two every few months, so it has been a process over the past several years. xD

I still clearly consider the original Tropico 3 campaign played with Absolute Power installed (because that adds features that seem really necessary to me, but its campaign is much weaker than the original, at least in my view) as the high point of the series. So you may be doing just fine staying there :)

I guess Galaxy claims another Linux version.

From the discussions I've seen on Steam it appears to be the publisher's decision.

The community manager stated it'll come "slightly later":

https://www.gog.com/forum/tropico_6/el_presidente_welcomes_you_to_paradise

That makes even less sense, because that woud mean
kalypso thinks its politically incorrect or their own idea of morals to include the Japanese flag or German second war symbols, but are totally fine with a game were you play dictator or in other ways are politcally incorrect.
All the Tropico games are essentially politically incorrect games.

That's good information. One of the things that cooled me on the franchise was that while Tropico 3 was excellent, T4 felt like a total rehash and T5 just didn't have a very appealing sales pitch.

Does the multiple islands thing lead to micromanagment hell or is it like SimCity 4 where you can build one up a bit and then have it politely wait around indefinitely for your next visit?

Wouldn't quite say a rehash. For the most part, minus the added nuisance of edicts locked at the start of scenarios, before you pick people, vanilla T4 was quite similar to T3 Absolute Power, yes, but then I'd say Modern Times differed a fair bit, from vanilla T4 I mean.
But in my case, if they'd largely stick to the features of T3 AP (since vanilla T3 was sorely lacking some important things) plus, yes, improvements to transportation mainly, and every few years come up with a campaign in the vein of the original (NOT AP!) T3 one, as in more serious and with usually one long-term goal per scenario, leaving you to get your head down and work towards it bit by bit, likely setting your own list or intermediate goals on the way, I reckon I'd be content to get back to it more or less each time. But what they've been doing since then... no. Vanilla T4 was, like I said, quite like T3 AP when it came to the campaign, much sillier and with multiple short-term goals to chase one after the other each scenario, stressful and far less rewarding, then MT seemed poorly implemented at least, and I'm not at all keen on modern settings anyway, and then couldn't get interested in T5 at all, with the greater focus on military and modern stuff, specifically what I want to avoid in such games, so didn't play it, and now this doesn't strike me as anything I'd care for either.
Good that it's here though, for those who care for it. If only it wouldn't have regional price hikes...

I enjoyed Tropico 1, 2 & 3, but I still have Tropico 4 (without the dlc pack) to play but fear to be disappointed by the lack of new stuffs. Tropico 5 and Tropico 6 seem more of the same.

Somehow there isn't an option to change the language to all other languages than english .

I play on Mac.

It seems El Presidente is proud of British heritage.

He appears to be wearing the British War Medal and Victory Medal from WW1 and the WW2 version of the British War Medal.

Thank you, guys!!!