Tropico Reloaded on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.

Tropico Reloaded is a simulation, city builder and strategy game developed by PopTop Software, BreakAway Games and Frog City Software and published by Kalypso Media Digital.
Released on July 24th 2009 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 900 reviews of which 789 were positive and 111 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Tropico Reloaded into these genres:

Simulation City Builder Strategy Management Classic Sandbox Pirates Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Comedy Economy RTS Isometric

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Graphics: 128 MB DirectX® 9 graphics card
DirectX®: 9
Hard Drive: 3 GB
Sound: DirectX-compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Amazing game, lots of nostalgia. Very good and can be incredibly difficult to find out what issues are causing what, which is the fun part! Go onto forums online. For instance, I was so silly and didn't understand I needed sugar crop for my rum industry (I suppose?)! Best of luck! You can have hours go by and not even know.

Feb. 2025

A lot of fun to play. Lots of fun little things the people think. Cute and entertaining.

Jan. 2025

A great start to the series! I had only played Tropico 4 and 5 before playing this, but I was impressed at how much was in the first entry. The only complaints I have is that clouds block large chunks of your view even when you aren't zoomed out that much, there are sometimes delays when rotating the camera, your population and overall happiness aren't on the main screen like they are in future games which was always nice to be able to see at a glance whenever you wanted, it's hard to see where you're putting things down if there are trees in the way (in future games they became translucent which made it way easier), and the game lets you put down buildings over uncompleted roads, so you gotta be careful about not having your road situation be messed up. But aside from those issues, everything else is great, money comes in easily, the soundtrack is great, even the graphics on some of the buildings are impressive given how old the game is. The later games are better, but this one is definitely still worth playing just to see how the franchise got started if nothing else.

Dec. 2024

Personally I never really got too much into other Tropicos, but I absolutely love this one. I played for the first time the demo version when I was just a kid, and it really hit me. The playability, the music... The MUSIC!!! It's do damn good... I still listen to it today during work/commute, and it brings that nostalgic feeling... It's really a great strategy game that you can kind of play at your own pace, something that I enjoy a lot. And doing that while listening to a gorgeous soundtrack just makes my day!

April 2024

Summary A ridiculously fun city builder 2 in 1 of the original Tropico franchise that started it all. Pros + Different + Very fun + Great music Cons - Dated Overview Tropico Reloaded is a ridiculously fun old school city builder that's 2 games in 1 and the first of the long Tropico franchise. The first game is the original Tropico along with it's expansion that focuses more on the tourism aspects, the second game is Tropico 2 which takes a pirate theme instead of the original banana republic setting of the first game. Both of the Tropico games are very good city builders just set within different time periods and have different aspects that they focus on. I also want to highlight that for both games the music is just pure perfection. I remember playing this years ago and even up to this day still remember the music. Gameplay The main point of both games is to basically stay in power as long as you possibly can by keeping your populace happy fulfilling all their needs. You build buildings and issue edicts that are essential to helping you keep the people from overthrowing you while at the same time growing your own personal "score", each game is quite different but more or less it is the same thing. The games has an interesting feature that allows you to customize your character when playing a custom game. You can pick traits that will determine some aspects of gameplay and also give you bonuses to make things easier or even some flaws that can make things even harder. Tropico Tropico is set some time during the cold war era and is mainly about you "El Presidente" to stay in power as long as you possibly can, it may sound easy enough but keeping the populace happy by fulfilling their needs while juggling other political aspects can be challenging. Throw in the US and Russia who wants to gain your favor and help their own political parties on your island and things could be so much more complicated. There are multiple scenarios that you are able to play and attempt to complete, but really the fun part of Tropico is to play the custom open ended game where you can keep developing the island and see how far you can push things. Unfortunately due to being an old game, there is a point where if your population reaches a certain number the games engine just couldn't take simulating everything and people kind of sort of just stop doing what they're supposed to. As much as the game is open ended and you are able to keep playing and expanding your island state, the game uses a scoring system based on your "Swiss Bank Account". Essentially you are squirrelling away money and at the end this is used to calculate your score. Will you foster the island of Tropico into an industrial power house, a haven for tourists, or will "El Presidente" invite the foreign powers to the island and be a puppet to the Capitalist US or Communist Russia? Tropico 2: Pirate Cove The second installment of the series takes place in a completely different time period and puts us in the position as a pirate king in control of a pirate haven. Similarly the goal is to keep everyone as happy as possible to prevent them from overthrowing you. Although the core concept of the game as a city builder is still intact, the game does play very differently to the original Tropico. Instead of producing and exporting goods you literally play pirate and send out your pirate fleets to plunder gold and find captives. Sending out your pirates to plunder is very important and is a core aspect of the game as you mostly earn gold from plunder. The captives they bring back is also very essential to your survival as only the captives does all the work on the island, the pirates only go out on their ships and not do any work to upkeep the island itself. Both captives and pirates have different needs and influences that need to be fulfilled to keep them both happy and in line. Unhappy or disorderly captives will try to rebel or escape while unhappy or nervous pirates may act out their frustrations. So there is a strong balancing that needs to be done to keep both happy to keep the island running smoothly. Tropico 2 actually has a campaign built into the game instead of scenarios to play through, each time having a story progressing and your character traits slightly changing. It is also pretty much like a tutorial for the whole game as the campaign isn't very difficult at all. Like the previous game, the fun is really in playing a custom game and running your island as long as you can while amassing your pirate hoard. If you find my reviews useful do follow my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/11028547-Dods-Echo-Chamber/]Curator page for more!

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