Sure, positive, Tropico games are about as indistinguishable from one another because the founding employees of a PC games web site circa 2007, however I can forgive that. There’s simply one thing about their sun-kissed, low-stakes, silly-but-not-too-silly tackle city-building. Every couple of years I actually really feel the itch to comfort-blanket myself with one, and lo and behold, each couple of years there’s a brand new one. That itch? I really feel it RIGHT NOW.
Alas, alack, woe is me, Tropico 6, initially billed for 2018, received’t be out this 12 months in spite of everything. I shall need to console myself with this eerily acquainted trailer as an alternative.
Hand on coronary heart, I’d battle to let you know with any certainty what on this ‘Gamescom’ trailer is definitely new, although there’s a basic sense that they’ve re-emphasised the general public transport aspect of issues. But it seems fairly and there’s an entire bunch of issues to construct, and that’s all I really need from Tropico. This is the Domino’s Pizza of administration games: at all times the identical, by no means actually memorable, most likely not nice for you, however seems like precisely what you want within the second.
There is a brand new wild card this time, nonetheless – conventional Tropicans Haemimont Games have handed growth duties to Might & Magic Heroes VII outfit Limbic Entertainment. Haemimont themselves are at present doing a wonderful job of steadily improving offworld city-builder Surviving Mars.
Tropico 6 has been slated for a 2018 launch till now, however writer Kalypso yesterday introduced that it’s been shifted again to January 2019. Which, truthfully, isn’t far-off – plus January is the best time of 12 months to spend 40 hours observing a fake Caribbean.
The solely explanation given is a claimed want to make 6 “the biggest and greatest Tropico yet”. However, there will probably be a closed beta on Steam in some unspecified time in the future over the autumn, however no particulars or dates on that but.
Or, y’know, simply play Tropico 5 once more.
