Tropico 5
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 14,451
- Critics
- 75 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 15% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 22.8h
- To 100%
- 85.4h 3.7x the story
- Achievements
- 70
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 September 2018
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 69 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was September 2018. 49 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anno 1800 ($59.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Grand Ages: Medieval ($19.99, scores 0).
More about Tropico 5
This site sampled 686 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 712 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
22.8 hours to finish it, 85 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
The game's mechanics are very vague and unfriendly to new players. Miniscule things like the game's AI breaking, causing a traffic jam or delay in resources can be catastrophic to your economy. You've built the structures, you've set the trade routes, you've set a budget, hired workers...and you lose money. And you have no idea why. Whatever that reason could be, you'll never know. The game won't tell you. It...
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About the game
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Tropico 5 scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/245620/tropico-5Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.