Tropico 6
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$13.9965% offWorth it
- Cost per hourA
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 29,732
- Critics
- 78 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Strategy
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 77% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 34.5h
- To 100%
- 76.4h 2.2x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,263 now
- Recent reviews
- 77% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, NIMBY Rails ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats The Guild II Renaissance ($9.99, scores 60).
More about Tropico 6
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 34.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 77 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 835 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
34.5 hours to finish it, 76 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
An exceptionally fun game, stumbled upon Tropico 5 on the PS4 when it was one of the free games being offered. The soundtrack was addicting, as a fan of city builders and resource games I was immediately drawn to it, although I skipped the tutorial so I was not good at the game for a while. When the sequel came out, had to get it on PC, it's even better than the 5th, another incredible soundtrack, very funny banter...
1 more review
I do not regret buying this game which i bought because it looked nice But it is now one of my most loved games
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD/NVIDIA dedicated GPU, 2GB dedicated VRAM (Radeon HD 7870, Geforce GTX 750), 16 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Tropico 6 scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/492720/tropico-6Reviews 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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.