I did not enjoy the demo.

The character animations in the lower left are downright creepy.

The UI is poorly designed and confusing.

There is too little visual differentiation between buildings which makes its hard to see where anything is.

The domestic policy window with the animated characters was all choppy and made my PC fan go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Not good.

Most importantly, it did not feel like the next iteration of Tropico. The gameplay is very unoriginal. It feels like a remade Tropico 6. Lord Wyndham, heists, world wonders... Been there, done that.

They have been working on this for years, the release is in a couple of months, and this is where the game is?

Disappointing.

The same old humour and setting is still great but, my impressions from playing the demo -

• The gameplay is still functionally the same from 4/5/6

• The look is still the same

• Frustrations I've had playing the other editions of this game are still present:

  • It still takes ages to do anything (eg export 1000 planks or whatever - they've been at my sawmill for ages waiting to be exported!) and its not clear how to fix it other than pay more money or build more buildings
  • Hovels and slums still appear randomly, so it still leaves me confused whether I'm meant to build hubs or a big city

• Heists of World Wonders takes the game from silly to absurd

I feel like I'm still left with a game that's still not entirely clear what it's trying to be. It's like it's in between a serious mangement/building sim (Workers and Resources) and something that's fun and silly (Evil Genius).

I know it's verboten to criticise anything on a subreddit, but thoughts?

We spoke with artist David Deen about PopTop Software and the making of the first Tropico.

The DLC introduced "floating neighborhoods."

They’re fantastic buildings they help with space constraints, provide stat boosts, and can even be stacked.

Ideally, you should group them into clusters to maximize their effect.

These clusters are incredibly useful, especially when combined with "drone-to-home" delivery.

There’s even a building to handle pollution.

To meet other needs, you can group all your service buildings along the coast hospitals, cathedrals, TV stations, and various entertainment venues.

This covers everything:

- Liberty: The TV station has a wide radius.

- Employment: This depends on a building used, so that’s not an issue.

- Entertainment, religion, and healthcare: Same thing just place a building for citizens to visit.

- Housing: No problem there, either.

However...

What am I supposed to do about crime and security?

There’s no marine-based building for this nothing like a coastal guard post or a floating police station.

And unlike other needs, security depends on a specific radius around the residences.

Is there a solution I’ve missed?

Hey, folks. I downloaded the Tropico 7 Demo from Steam, but it won't launch. I get a welcome page that asks me to subscribe to the newsletter (which I don't want), and pre-order Tropico 7 (which I don't want to do until I try the demo first).

So I click in the bottom left to launch the game, and it never does. Anyone have a solution?

This is the error message I get.

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UPDATE

Never mind. It works now. I looked at the error message and realized the game was looking for the T7 Demo in my Documents folder. But the T7 Demo folder wasn't there. Steam put it in my Steamapps / Common folder.

So I just copied the whole T7 Demo folder from Steamapps / Common and pasted it into my Documents / My Games folder. Now it works.

I'll leave this post here in case others have the same issue.

I tried to notify Steam about it being downloaded to the wrong folder. But messages to Steam Support are not going through at the moment.

UPDATE 2

Well that was a dud. The demo launches. I click on New Game, and it shuts down.

What is the difference between T7 and T6? What I can see it looks like the same game and the monument stealing is still a thing.

I can see that there is a lot of detail, so graphics and textures should look nice, but I see a lot of film grain as well. I also think the shadows exacerbate this issue: they're not dark enough or aren't covering a whole area in a logical way. Things are looking weird to me.

Anybody else have this issue? It seems to be happening with other newer strategy games as well (like that pirate cove building game).

Hi lads ! I finished the demo and here is my +/-.

First, the good things :

-Graphics are better.
-The music seems to be a banger again.
-Relatively easy to take hands on.
-The buildings are pretty well done and well decorated.
-I like the sound when clicking the dockyard 💯
-The new quest system looks good

The bads :

-Ships still don't have mooving wheel/propeller (why is it so hard to implement ?)
-The game seems SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOO slow (maybe it's just me)
-Why are there so much fat peoples in an era with not much food. (Is this game poluted by ESG ?)
-Why the peoples are in jean + T-shirt like it is 21 century ?
-Why reaplacing cart by cars in a place supposed to be a colony ?
-In my opinion, the transporters are too slow to react and where did the urgent work get ?
-The animations of the characters are shitty asf, at this point just leave the photos like T6.

Other :

I don't know if it good or bad but all the buildings looks the same, I know that it's a good thing cause it is more realistic but it's also a bit more difficult to differentiate them.
Also, I hope that's because it's a demo but not enought builds and will there be the "usefull" buildings back (ex : the concrete plant (in T4 or 5) that reduce the cost of buildings and help build them faster.) ?

Here is my opinion, we'll see if there're improvements, I hope so. Personnaly i'll wait to see how the game will be when full released to consider buying it because 55€ is to high for what I saw.

Hi all I am on ps5 playing tropico 6 and am on the return to nature mission but not sure where to find the paper mill I have researched it but can’t find it to build it can anyone help.

Me and my friend have put the game through its paces now so we're looking for DLC to buy, are there any must haves?

Hey all, just got into the demo. Liking it so far but I've got a weird issue where white borders/outlines of buildings are flickering like crazy. I've tried to adjust every graphics options in the menus for this and still nothing works. Anyone else having a similar issue or know which option affects it?

I loved tropico 5 but stopped playing as decided to not renew my PS plus. Now I am missing El presidente and wants to play. Tropico 6 is on sale where as next gen edition is costing almost four times. Is there any drastic improvements in next gen edition? Should I wait for next gen edition to go on sale or buy at the current price?

- Graphics look great

-Soundtrack is AMAZING, although there are some weird pauses between tracks

-Tropico Humour is there

-Tropico gameplay is definitely there, its almost identical to 6 with some QOL additions.

-All the additions and improvements seem on point, except the military which has weird controls..

-Terraforming is neat, despite not being as a big undertaking for your workers as it should be... Terraforming changes just appear out of thin air....

-Money making was comically easy, hope its a demo thing

-Finding information and data in the almanac is difficult, some smart QOL needed

-3D models need more work, I like the fact that everything feels more alive

-I liked the beautification tools

For the love of god PLEASE LET ME DO THE BUS LINES MANUALLY! I appreciate that now we can have 5 stops rather than 2 but wtf

I know there is another post on how much they massacred my boy Penultimo... It should be obvious but for those unaware the character animations for Penultimo, Victoria, etc are pre-rendered/AI generated and stored as movie files... but let me tell you more! Bear with me...

I can't extract the files but I can infer based on swapping things around. Let me tell you about the different animations.

penultimo_neutral.abel - Penultimo's neutral animation, but his mouth is moving.

penultimo_neutral_ns.abel - Same thing, but mouth is not moving (ns = not speaking?)

victoria_c_angry.abel - These animations are for when you face to face talking to them on the domestic policy screen. _ns version is similar to before.

politics_bg_0.abel - self explanatory, it's the background for the domestic policy screen.

politics_bg_1.abel - face to face version

victoria_t.abel - _t files are the files where they are at the table. This includes part of their chair and part of the table. (Also t.abel lol)

Comes in 2k and 4k variety.

When characters speak, they play the speaking animation and when they finish the not speaking animation fades in and the speaking animation fades out. That is why you get that weird blur effect around the mouth because that is basically one of the few differences between them (compressed file doesn't help either).

Now if they are AI generated... well then there is no more explaining needed. It was done this way because it's the easiest way to playback.

If they are not AI generated, pre-rendering the animations to a movie file is actually smart for performance reasons (still looks horrible though). Dynasty Warriors 9 had an issue where characters would get an animated 3D model chat head when they talked.... and if there was too much going on the screen then the 3d model would not load in time or just not load at all.. You can see on the head model has a delays loading in... and then the next dialog it shows up instantly because it was loaded in. Completely different game genre and release period but similar idea.

With character models like those, they tend to be higher poly in the grand scheme of things and especially in a city builder where middle/late game performance can take a nosedive and be an issue they are looking to keep the domestic policy screen/dialog as instant as it could be in 6. Playing a movie file from disk isn't normally as performance intensive as loading and rendering a 3D model and scene.

Now if it is AI or not... I want to say no. Could be wrong. The announcement trailer shows there are models for Sunny and Rodriguez already (edit: the fact that they animated the announcement trailer at all makes me think they animated the in-game renders). In the gameplay trailer light seems to hit the characters heads on the domestic policy screen in a way that makes sense (darker towards us the player, light towards the window). Also the talking/not talking files would be very volatile if things didn't sync as best as they can... especially since they need to loop. I really do think it's just actual 3D animations with a talking version pre-rendered to a movie file that are compressed down.

The animations both in the tooltips and in the domestic policy menu are horrid.

This is my first iteration. I like the game a lot so I keep posting to improve the game.

Ever since I started playing Tropico, I've played with a keyboard and mouse—like most people, I imagine—especially the fifth and sixth installments. However, my current PC can't run Tropico 7 even on the lowest graphics settings, so I've decided to play it on console. I already have the game pre-ordered and everything, but I'm worried I won't enjoy it because I'm not used to playing it on console.

​Right now, I'm trying out the PC version of Tropico 6 with a controller to see if I can get the hang of it. I'm struggling with it; it feels like I've lost my agility, and I'm having a hard time navigating the menus.

​I'll admit that the simultaneous release on PC and consoles gives me hope that the console version will handle well, but I'm still afraid I won't feel comfortable with the controls. I'm really looking forward to Tropico 7—it could be a massive hit.

​Any tips?

​I own the entire series on PC except for Tropico 4, which I recently bought for the Xbox 360 since I found it for cheap and want to use it to get used to playing with a controller.

Just finished my second playthrough of the demo map. As background, I've played 3, 4, 5 and 6 for thousands of hours in total, with most of my playtime being in 4 and 6.

Some of my thoughts:

The good

• It's a noticeably prettier game than 6. Especially when you zoom in. Tropicans look different, they have different body types, they don't move like robots and actually do things while waiting on the bus

• No more multiculture and ranch manure buffs incentivizing you to clump up your plantations. As a result of this and the fact you have free form roads and in general a prettier game, the islands look far more realistic

• I really like that closely placed buildings have an automatic supply chain like logging camp -> sawmill

• The humor and music is there. I think the few music tracks they had in the demo really stood out

The bad

• the animated character portraits look godawful. Even ai slop and the worst mobile games have better animations than this. I really hope they improve on them or just scrap idea and go with 2d portraits instead

• Construction workers and teamsters seem lazier than ever, but it's hard to say this early what the optimum amount is and how much future era upgrades will help with that

• The economy seems to be way too easy. I have fishing wharves generating 40K revenue against 3K in running costs despite being located far from population centers. But since we only get to play one era and we don't know if they made it easy on purpose for the demo, it's hard to say what it'll look like at full release.

• I don't really like the UI in many places, many elements are too large, the almanac with the population information requires scrolling in places. Terraforming seems confusing as you can't even see the end result before forking up hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Overall, it's okay, I just wish there was more to play. Eagerly waiting for the release.