Tropico (video game)

Tropico
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)Joshua Galloway
Designer(s)Phil Steinmeyer
Franz Felsl
Programmer(s)Brent Smith
Phil Steinmeyer
Artist(s)David Deen
Todd Bergantz
Franz Felsl
Brian Feldges
Steve Mohesky
Writer(s)Fanz Felsl
Composer(s)Daniel Indart
SeriesTropico
Platform(s)Windows, Mac OS X
ReleaseWindows
Mac OS X
Genre(s)Construction and management simulation
Mode(s)Single player

Tropico is a construction and management simulation video game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001.[4] Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games in the series for Mac OS X. The games see the player taking the role of "El Presidente", who rules a fictional Caribbean island country named Tropico during the Cold War era and beyond.

The game is tongue-in-cheek in its presentation of semi-democratic banana republics, using a great deal of humor while still referencing such topics as totalitarianism, electoral fraud, and the interventions of powerful companies (United Fruit is implied) and the Cold War superpowers (the United States and Soviet Union). This is similar to the previous 8bit Game Dictator by DK'Tronics, except in Dictator the success is measured by the amount you put away in your Swiss bank account, which is an offshore bank account.[citation needed]

Tropico features Latin-styled Caribbean music, largely performed by Daniel Indart. The game won the "Original Musical Composition" award during the 5th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.

Tropico has several expansion packs and new editions, including Tropico: Paradise Island, plus a combined copy of the original and Paradise Island titled Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition (released on June 27, 2002). A sequel, Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, was released on April 8, 2003. The third game in the series Tropico 3, was released in the autumn of 2009.[5] A fourth game, Tropico 4, was released on August 26, 2011, and a fifth game, Tropico 5, was released on May 23, 2014. Tropico 6 was released on March 29, 2019.[6]

The game was re-released in the three-game pack Tropico Reloaded, packing the original game, the expansion pack Tropico: Paradise Island, and the sequel Tropico 2: Pirate Cove into one release. It is available both digitally on Steam and GOG.com, and on disc.

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  2. ^ "2001 releases". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on April 13, 2001. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  3. ^ "MWNY: MacSoft ships Tropico, announces new games". Macworld. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  4. ^ "Release Information for Tropico". MobyGames. Retrieved 14 August 2006.
  5. ^ "Tropico 3 Coming in October" (Press release). TeamXbox. August 27, 2009. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  6. ^ EDT, Mo Mozuch On 3/28/19 at 11:57 AM (2019-03-28). "Here's when you can begin your next adventure as El Presidente". Newsweek. Retrieved 2019-04-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)