SimulationStrategy
Tropico 6
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 5% of players who started
Started playing 57% of owners
Steam reviews 88% positive of 29,617
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (46%); after 15h it's 1 in 10 (10%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- 5% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “The Beginning of a Servantship” (Complete Mission "Penultimo of the Caribbean"): only 63% of starters get there.
- Only 57% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 29,754 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 30h for positive, 26.5h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (56.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- The Beginning of a Servantship Complete Mission "Penultimo of the Caribbean" Most players quit here 63% −37
- Number 18 Complete Mission "Speakeasy" 34% −29
- Caribbean Comrade Complete Mission "Better Red Than Dead" 22% −12
- The Legend of Langostino Complete Mission "Pirate King" 21% −1
- The Dreamer of Dreams Complete Mission "Chocolate Factory" 20%
- Go Sovereigns! Complete Mission "Ballgame" 13% −7
- For Science! Complete Mission "Tropicoland" 13%
- Happy Ending? Complete Mission "Acts of God" 13% −1
- Of Seals And Men Complete Mission "Concrete Beach" 12% −1
- Shackadelic Complete Mission "Shackland" 12%
- Firestarter Complete Mission "Superpower Defense" 9% −2
- Computer Says "No" Complete Mission "Bureaucrazy 2.0" 7% −2
- Beware The Betman Complete Mission "The One-Percenters" 7%
- Viva Tropico! Complete Mission "Battle Royal" 6% −1
- Apocalypso Complete Mission "The Referendum" 5% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (40)
story milestone ending side
- Just One...More...Term... Spend 5 hours playing Tropico 6 100%
- The Beginning of a Servantship Complete Mission "Penultimo of the Caribbean" 63%
- Un-Lonely Island Reach a population of 1000 58%
- Trade Is My Trait Have an active trade route for all trade licenses at the same time 44%
- Number 18 Complete Mission "Speakeasy" 34%
- We Don't Have Time For That Have no elections within a duration of 20 years 22%
- Caribbean Comrade Complete Mission "Better Red Than Dead" 22%
- The Legend of Langostino Complete Mission "Pirate King" 21%
- The Dreamer of Dreams Complete Mission "Chocolate Factory" 20%
- The Governator Remain in colonial era for 30 years in one game 20%
- Promising Endeavors Perform 500 raids across all games 19%
- Go Sovereigns! Complete Mission "Ballgame" 13%
- For Science! Complete Mission "Tropicoland" 13%
- I Owe You Nothing Reach a Swiss bank account credit of S$ 50k without ever accepting a single Broker request 13%
- Happy Ending? Complete Mission "Acts of God" 13%
- Of Seals And Men Complete Mission "Concrete Beach" 12%
- Shackadelic Complete Mission "Shackland" 12%
- From Knight to Little Duck Construct bridges with an accumulated length of 728 grid tiles 11%
- Terraformer Generate 15 random maps 11%
- French Connection Have the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower constructed at the same time 10%
- Make Tropico Great Again! Finish a sandbox game without any imports 9.9%
- Firestarter Complete Mission "Superpower Defense" 9.3%
- Double Trouble Have two faction escalations at the same time 8.8%
- Watch The World Burn Win a sandbox game without ever constructing a fire station 7.9%
- Don't Panic! Have a Space Mission end with a special event 6.9%
- Computer Says "No" Complete Mission "Bureaucrazy 2.0" 6.9%
- Beware The Betman Complete Mission "The One-Percenters" 6.9%
- Fairy Tale Come True Have Neuschwanstein Castle and the Taj Mahal constructed at the same time 6.5%
- Viva Tropico! Complete Mission "Battle Royal" 6.0%
- The Time For Wonders Have four heists active at the same time 5.6%
- Narcissist Have 20 inspiring statues at the same time 5.5%
- Apocalypso Complete Mission "The Referendum" 5.1%
- Been there, Done That Complete all Missions 4.2%
- Curse of the Mummy Have the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid constructed at the same time 4.1%
- Sublime Subliminal Supreme Have 90% of all Tropicans support the same faction 3.7%
- One Does Not Simply Stage A Coup Survive a military coup 3.2%
- Chain Gang Generate $3,500 in a month with convict labor 2.6%
- Teamplayer Win a multiplayer game as a team 2.5%
- Survivor Win a sandbox game on a map with a volcano on it with Disasters set to "Frequent" 2.1%
- My Ways End 50 protests by force or by bribing the protesters across all games 1.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.