Tropico 6 is the sixth installment of the Tropico Saga, developed by Limbic Entertainment, and published by Kalypso Media. It uses Unreal Engine 4 and is available for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch(November 6 2020).
New Features
- Play on large archipelagos for the first time in the series. Manage multiple islands at the same time and adapt to various new challenges.
- Send your agents on raids to foreign lands to steal world wonders and monuments to add them to your collection.
- Build bridges, construct tunnels, and transport your citizens and tourists in taxis, buses, and aerial cable cars. Tropico 6 offers completely new transportation and infrastructure possibilities, such as landings, bus depots, and aerial cable car stations.
- Tropico 6 features a revised research system, focusing on the political aspects of being the world's greatest dictator.
- Election speeches are back! Address the people and make promises that you can't possibly keep.
- Cooperative and competitive multiplayer for up to four players.
- Tropico 6 will feature more buildings out of the box than any Tropico before: 150+ buildings will give players the tools for every situation and also offer a lot of visual variety for players who just want to build a Caribbean paradise.
- Be the dictator you want to be: Players can express themselves by customizing their avatar, their palace, election speeches, the Tropican flag and El Presidente's personal means of transportation.
Factions and Characters
Tropico 6 will see some beloved characters coming back, such as El Presidente's trusted subordinate, Penultimo, as well as political factions and foreign powers, along with their new representatives.
One of the new characters, The Broker, will offer enticing deals and offers to encourage El Presidente to add to or spend his Swiss Bank account money.
Political factions
- Revolutionaries, represented by Sofia Ortega
- Capitalists, represented by Mason Belmonte
- Communists, represented by Marco Moreno
- Militarists, represented by General Rodriguez
- Religious, represented by Sister Francesca
- Environmentalists, represented by Sunny Flowers
- Industrialists, represented by Harland Zander
- Conservatives, represented by Hector Delgado
- Intellectuals, represented by Elena Culpepper
Foreign Powers
- The Crown, represented by Lord Roger Wyndham
- Axis, represented by Erich von Strohm
- Allies, represented by Wynton Marlborough
- Western Powers, represented by Colonel Buck Scott
- Eastern Bloc, represented by Nadia Kuznetsov
- EU, represented by Eline Dupont
- USA, represented by Raymond King
- Middle East, represented by Prince Thari
- Russia, represented by Vlad Orlov
- China, represented by Ambassador Zhang
Expansions and DLC
The Llama of Wall Street is the first DLC, introducing new ways to manipulate markets and a new mission based around these features and a few other new buildings.
Spitter is the second DLC, featuring a social media-like system (it's namesake) and introduces celebrity tourists which can be courted for special benefits, alongside new tourism and entertainment buildings designed to cater to the wealthiest of tourists. It likewise adds a new mission showcasing these new elements.
Lobbyistico is the third DLC, introducing a corruption mechanic. Using the new "El Presidente Club", players can bribe faction leaders for powerful benefits at the risk of corruption negatively affecting revenue. Again, a new mission is added to showcase the mechanics and a few other related buildings.
Caribbean Skies is the 4th DLC and can be considered to be Tropico's first expansion, adding the first proper campaign of 5 missions connected by the same story. The key feature is the addition of drones as a product and resource, which can be used to supply various new buildings, such as drone deliveries which can transport goods through the air in the modern era, while Cargo Airports serve as a somewhat similar option in earlier times or can be set up for import/export purposes like a Dock.
Festival is the 5th (and so far, final) DLC and has a similar scope as Caribbean Skies, with a 5 mission campaign. As the name implies, the key addition is the ability to hold festivals through a series of unique buildings, once they are supplied with Fireworks and Balloons, two new products introduced in the DLC. Any festival runs for a specific length, generating money based on the number of visitors, provide entertainment and slightly boost effectiveness of any building in their affected area, but every available type of Festival also grants other effects to specific buildings, so planning which one to run and where is key.
Not all of the content added over the course of the game's lifecycle was tied to purchasing DLC, however. A number of major patches added other features to the base game, such as new multiplayer maps, Sandbox mode options and other general gameplay additions.
Modding
As announced by the developers Tropico 6 will have full modding support. Yet the contents are encrypted in huge .PAK files which can be unpacked by using a program called UE4PakUnpacker. After unpacking the files new folder appears with .uasset files in it.
Pre-release media
For the purpose of advertising several videos and images of previously unseen footage have been released to the public. Here is Tropico 6's pre-release gallery.
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