Tropico 5
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player builds distilleries and cigar factories, then produces, stockpiles and exports rum and tobacco as core economic commodities.
The satirical premise centres on dictatorship, electoral fraud, secret police and the suppression of dissidents and rebel factions as gameplay systems.
The player governs as a corrupt strongman, rigging elections, embezzling state funds into a personal Swiss bank account and imposing martial law as game actions.
Tiny top-down soldiers, rebels and army units fight and can be killed on the island; no blood, wounds or gore are shown.
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What it is
Tropico 5 is a tongue-in-cheek city-building and government simulation in which you play 'El Presidente', ruling a fictional Caribbean island nation across eras from the colonial period into the modern age. You lay out an economy, manage factions and elections, and stay in power against rebels, coups and Cold War superpowers. The humour is broad, but the systems model real subjects: dictatorship, corruption, rigged elections and the crushing of dissent. Iconic industries include rum distilleries and cigar factories, which you produce and export for profit. Combat is present but abstract and bloodless — small military units fight at a strategic zoom with no injury shown. There is an online multiplayer mode, but the build carries no in-game voice or text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames autocracy as comedy: it lets you embezzle, falsify votes and silence opponents while a fawning radio announcer praises your every move, treating the machinery of a banana-republic dictatorship as satire rather than endorsement or condemnation.
Details
- Developer
- Haemimont Games
- Publisher
- Kalypso Media Digital
- Released
- May 23, 2014
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