In case you missed it,Tropico 7, a new installment in the long-running sim/strategy series, was just announced at Gamescom. This year’s Gamescom is officially on, running throughout the week in Cologne, Germany, and beginning last night withthe massive Opening Night Live. Today, the event splintered off into multiple smaller livestreams and reveals, coupled with an in-person gathering with lots of informational booths and playable demos.
It was at one of those smaller livestreams - the Xbox Gamescom showcase - thatTropico 7was revealed for a 2026 releae date.Tropico 7will be available on Xbox Series X/S, the Xbox app on PC, Steam, the Epic Games Store, and PS5 sometime next year.
Tropico 7 Is The Latest Xbox Announcement
What We Know About The Next Tropico Game
Tropico 7was a pretty big surpriseat this year’s Gamescom; it’s a world premiere, after all. It’s not a huge triple-A that we already knew was about to come out, and was basically guaranteed to get some kind of representation, unlikeSilent Hill fand its big new trailer.
And anyway, no one would blame you if you missed it;theTropico 7announcement was incredibly brief. There was no full-length trailer, no gameplay footage, no briefing on what to expect, and no promise of more information to come.
It was an announcement in the purest sense of the word: just a heads-up thata new entry in theTropicoseries is due out next year.
Tropico Is A Surprisingly Consistent City Sim Series
Building An Empire
Tropicois a bit of a black sheep in the city sim genre, but unlikebigger-name entries with broader appeal,it’s been relatively consistent in qualityover the years.
InTropico,you play as El Presidente, the head of the fictional, totalitarian Carribean island nation of the same name. Your job is to stay on top by any means necessary: building up an economy, suppressing rebel factions, and fending off intervention by foreign powers.
Hilariously tongue-in-cheek, bitingly satirical, and delightfully conspiratorial,Tropicoisn’t for everybody - it lacks the historical breadth of something likeCiv, or the social complexity of something likeCrusader Kings. Butit’s always been one of the more unique and fun management/simulation games, andTropico 7should be no exception.
AlthoughTropico 5was a bit of a drag on the franchise, with a relatively boring late-game and some inconsistency across historical periods,Tropico 6came back in a major way. It was the debut game in the series by Limbic Entertainment, taking over for Haemimont Games.
With an expanded map system that allows players to control an entire archipelago - not just one island - and a sort of greatest-hits variety of different systems from across the series history, it’s considered among the franchise’s best. It’ll be exciting to learn what’s planned forTropico 7once more is revealed.
