Tropico
Developers | |
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PopTop Software | |
Paradise Island Expansion | BreakAway Games |
Mac OS (Classic) | Feral Interactive |
macOS (OS X) | Feral Interactive |
Publishers | |
Retail | Gathering of Developers |
Retail (Russia) | 1C Company |
Brazil | GreenLeaf |
Retail re-release | Sold Out Software |
Digital | Kalypso Media |
Mac OS (Classic) | Feral Interactive |
macOS (OS X) | Feral Interactive |
Mac OS (Classic) | MacSoft |
macOS (OS X) | MacSoft |
Engines | |
S3D | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 21, 2001 |
Mac OS (Classic) | July 17, 2001 |
macOS (OS X) | July 17, 2001 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building |
Themes | Comedy, Cold War |
Series | Tropico |
Tropico | |
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Tropico | 2001 |
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove | 2003 |
Tropico 3 | 2009 |
Tropico 4 | 2011 |
Tropico 5 | 2014 |
Tropico 6 | 2019 |
Tropico is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric building game in the Tropico series.
The game received the Paradise Island expansion in January 2002, and the two would be combined as the Mucho Macho Edition in July 2002 with 12 extra scenarios.
When running on modern graphics cards, the game crashes when using the hardware renderer unless changed to software or a wrapper is used.
General information
- Official game series site
- Tropico Wiki
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GamersGate | Tropico Reloaded. | |||
Tropico Reloaded. | ||||
GOG.com | Tropico Reloaded. | |||
Green Man Gaming | Tropico Reloaded. | |||
Steam | Tropico Reloaded. |
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org.
Version differences
- Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition (known in Europe as Tropico Gold) is a bundle that contains Tropico and the Paradise Island expansion, along with 12 extra scenarios.
- Tropico Reloaded is a bundle that contains Tropico, the Paradise Island expansion, and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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Expansion pack | The expansion pack includes new challenges, buildings, tourist types, events and disasters. |
One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Paradise Island |
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch for the base game is v1.07.
- The latest official patch for the Paradise Island expansion is v1.53.
- The Gold and Mucho Macho Editions have separate v1.53 installers.
Fix graphical corruption and crashes when using hardware renderer
Use dxwrapper[1] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\data2[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33520/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Games[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/33520/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Game only supports 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200. | ||
Multi-monitor | Multi-monitor setups can prevent the game from launching; see Fix graphical corruption and crashes when using hardware renderer. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | 64 fps cap |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | Default windows behavior | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master, music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Music and background sound effects continue to play | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | The Steam store page does not advertise it, but is present. | |||
German | The Steam store page does not advertise it, but is present. | |||
Hungarian | Retail only. The "Paradise Island" Expansion pack never translated officially, but a fan translation is available. The files from the original release are available here. | |||
Italian | Retail and GOG.com only. | |||
Japanese | Retail only. | |||
Polish | Retail only; details. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only; GreenLeaf release.[2] | |||
Russian | Retail only; download for digital releases. | |||
Spanish | Retail and GOG.com only; download for Steam release. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 7 | |
Software renderer |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | 98, NT 4.0, ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 200 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1400 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB of VRAM DirectX 7 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (33520) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Github: elishacloud / dxwrapper: issue #109 by Ligushka: Tropico - hardware rendering mode yields corrupted graphics - last accessed on 2022-08-17
- ↑ Novo Milênio, 21/06/2002 (archived) - last accessed on 2023-10-01