Tropico 6 is, of course, the sixth game in the Tropico series. This time the developer is Limbic Entertainment and they made this game a worthy successor. You once again take on the role of ‘El Presidente’. You are a Dictator set to build your city or nation to be rich and prosperous. Your islands lay somewhere in the Caribbean ocean.
Tropico is a citybuilding game that has been around for a while. In fact, the first game was released in 2001. The game is filled with humor and great mechanics. You will have to build businesses and other buildings to run your nation. While running your nation you will have to factor in a lot of different groups of people and their beliefs/needs and opinions.
Some decisions might be good for the materialists in your nation but might hurt the more religious people that reside here as well. Making compromises is your strongest weapon in solving these problems.
In Tropico 6 the developers addressed an issue that has been around for a while in the series. That issue is space. In the former games space is extremely limited and this was sometimes hard to play around. Now In nr6, we have the main settlement and different islands you can connect and build on. This gives you a lot more space to work with and expand your city.
These collections of islands are called archipelagos and do actually appear in the region the game is set in. By building bridges or means of transport between these islands your islanders get to go from one place to the other and transport goods to the main establishment.
Some of these islands are very remote but have certain important resources that cannot be found anywhere else. This forces you to build colonies on the smaller islands to gather these resources. This new feature both solves the problem of limited space and implements an entirely new dimension to the game.
Tropico 6 is a great successor to the earlier games and feels really good to play. I strongly recommend trying this game. But what else than a great game can we expect from “Might & Magic” developers Limbic Entertainment?
