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These assignments are always couched in some harebrained scheme the king has cooked up back home, such as requesting that you build a logging camp so the king can complete his underwater palace. You start in the Victorian era, where Lord Oaksworth, emissary to the Crown, guides you through building your first resource-gathering structures. Throughout the ages, your advisors take excellent care of making sure Tropico 5 is easy to pick up and enjoy, whether you're familiar with this series' long history or not. After all, you're doing this for the good of the people, and your Swiss bank account.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's But as your trusted advisors say, it is your will alone that is holding Tropico together, and that means doing anything and everything necessary to stay in office, whether it's rigging the next election or putting down civilian riots. Each age brings with it a new set of challenges because your tiny island nation is sandwiched between the world's rotating superpowers. From these humble beginnings, you must guide your people through World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.

Instead, Tropico 5 starts you off as a lowly governor in the Victorian era under the service of the Crown. I'm getting ahead of myself, since you're not actually El Presidente in the beginning. Mission objectives help guide your island to prosperity. This management sim wraps its irreverent wit around some easily approachable mechanics that smartly grow in complexity as you move through the ages and become more familiar with your new role as El Presidente. But that's OK, because both Tropico 5 and its digital inhabitants don't take anything too seriously.

Your research team is incompetent, your diplomat is a snob, and your radio DJ is absolutely shameless. Everything is just one big joke on the island of Tropico.