How do players who really played Tropico 6 rate it? TrueGG Rating 92.0%

Release date: Mar 29, 2019 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it higher than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.

Good for

Players willing to push through a slow start

Think twice if you are

Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)

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92.0%

▲ +4.2 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 660 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 89.7%
Steam overall: 87.7%
Japanese, all time: 85.8%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 4.8% of all reviews. Their positive share is 54.3%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	50.0%	—	6
1–2 h	37.5%	—	16
2–5 h	88.5%	100.0%	52
5–10 h	93.0%	—	71
10–20 h	91.3%	100.0%	183
20–50 h	90.6%	100.0%	202
50–100 h	90.6%	100.0%	128
100–200 h	96.6%	100.0%	88
200+ h	94.9%	—	59

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 44% had 20+ hours and 10% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Tropico 6 has a TrueGG Rating of 92.0%: the positive share among 660 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours, close to Steam's overall 87.7%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 89.7%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 5% of the total, and only 54% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs (less than at launch), boredom (less than at launch), and monetization and DLC. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels and graphics and music.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 85.8%, 6.2 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (87.1% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on technical quality (Crashes & bugs). They have declined since launch, so things may have improved. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

Crashes & bugs11% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · less than at launch
Boring / repetitive10% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · less than at launch
Monetization & DLC10% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch

+ What players praise

Fun & feel31% of positive reviews (19% of negative)
Graphics & music7% of positive reviews (4% of negative)

＋日本語対＋安定＋セール＋最高＋プレジデンテ＋システム＋大国＋攻略− tried− last− complete− unplayable− unless− happiness− boring− point

Counted from 365 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	87.7%	All time, all languages · 29,617 reviews
Adjusted rating	87.1%	Weighted by trust (95% range 86.7%–87.5%), −0.6pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	82.8%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (−5.0pt vs overall) · 377 reviews

Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	1%	15%
Very short text	39%	14%
Key activated outside Steam	28%	33%
Received for free	1%	2%
Owns very few games	17%	9%
Over 100 reviews written	4%	10%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.75	0.79

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 34.7 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

Date	Announcement	2 months before → after
2025-03-06	Tropico 6 – Update 23 - Eternamente Verde	89% → 87% (−1.8pt)
2025-02-13	Make Tropico Green Again: New Tropico 6 DLC Return to Nature Blossoms March	88% → 87% (−0.7pt)
2024-06-06	New Tropico 6 DLC – Tropican Shores Makes Waves June 18	91% → 88% (−3.3pt)
2024-03-28	Tropico Out Now for Meta Quest!	87% → 91% (+4.0pt)
2024-01-23	Tropico 6 Update 21.5	84% → 89% (+4.5pt)
2023-10-12	Tropico 6 Update 21 - Chozas, Desapareced	86% → 84% (−1.9pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

Show monthly data as a table

Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2019-03	519	112	82.3%
2019-04	1,787	283	86.3%
2019-05	386	61	86.4%
2019-06	373	41	90.1%
2019-07	432	46	90.4%
2019-08	143	24	85.6%
2019-09	297	54	84.6%
2019-10	270	53	83.6%
2019-11	584	56	91.3%
2019-12	499	54	90.2%
2020-01	456	49	90.3%
2020-02	368	61	85.8%
2020-03	403	70	85.2%
2020-04	401	59	87.2%
2020-05	257	35	88.0%
2020-06	211	25	89.4%
2020-07	617	81	88.4%
2020-08	212	38	84.8%
2020-09	361	55	86.8%
2020-10	167	21	88.8%
2020-11	325	49	86.9%
2020-12	251	44	85.1%
2021-01	258	49	84.0%
2021-02	176	28	86.3%
2021-03	150	13	92.0%
2021-04	335	41	89.1%
2021-05	193	25	88.5%
2021-06	188	36	83.9%
2021-07	279	38	88.0%
2021-08	153	29	84.1%
2021-09	205	30	87.2%
2021-10	105	20	84.0%
2021-11	136	15	90.1%
2021-12	126	33	79.2%
2022-01	154	26	85.6%
2022-02	146	18	89.0%
2022-03	100	19	84.0%
2022-04	125	14	89.9%
2022-05	95	14	87.2%
2022-06	96	19	83.5%
2022-07	165	38	81.3%
2022-08	139	20	87.4%
2022-09	135	26	83.9%
2022-10	91	22	80.5%
2022-11	131	14	90.3%
2022-12	139	24	85.3%
2023-01	147	24	86.0%
2023-02	82	11	88.2%
2023-03	115	16	87.8%
2023-04	113	17	86.9%
2023-05	73	10	88.0%
2023-06	84	9	90.3%
2023-07	133	28	82.6%
2023-08	80	16	83.3%
2023-09	116	15	88.5%
2023-10	167	29	85.2%
2023-11	144	27	84.2%
2023-12	121	22	84.6%
2024-01	169	26	86.7%
2024-02	87	12	87.9%
2024-03	106	12	89.8%
2024-04	87	8	91.6%
2024-05	96	10	90.6%
2024-06	122	24	83.6%
2024-07	113	19	85.6%
2024-08	66	6	91.7%
2024-09	58	5	92.1%
2024-10	115	19	85.8%
2024-11	78	5	94.0%
2024-12	123	18	87.2%
2025-01	110	15	88.0%
2025-02	104	11	90.4%
2025-03	122	21	85.3%
2025-04	91	11	89.2%
2025-05	75	13	85.2%
2025-06	85	17	83.3%
2025-07	77	12	86.5%
2025-08	111	8	93.3%
2025-09	127	17	88.2%
2025-10	85	9	90.4%
2025-11	116	12	90.6%
2025-12	73	10	88.0%
2026-01	180	29	86.1%
2026-02	71	8	89.9%
2026-03	115	16	87.8%
2026-04	90	7	92.8%
2026-05	75	10	88.2%
2026-06	81	10	89.0%
2026-07	115	10	92.0%
2026-08	101	6	94.4%
2026-09	81	9	90.0%
2026-10	46	6	88.5%

Show daily data as a table

Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-18	1	0
2026-09-19	1	0
2026-09-20	0	1
2026-09-21	1	0
2026-09-22	4	0
2026-09-23	3	0
2026-09-24	1	1
2026-09-25	0	0
2026-09-26	2	0
2026-09-27	2	0
2026-09-28	1	0
2026-09-29	1	1
2026-09-30	2	0
2026-10-01	4	0
2026-10-02	3	0
2026-10-03	1	0
2026-10-04	5	0
2026-10-05	4	1
2026-10-06	4	0
2026-10-07	0	1
2026-10-08	4	1
2026-10-09	1	0
2026-10-10	4	0
2026-10-11	2	0
2026-10-12	2	0
2026-10-13	4	0
2026-10-14	3	1
2026-10-15	1	0
2026-10-16	1	1
2026-10-17	3	1

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Recent sentiment

Period	Positive	Reviews
Last 30 days	87.4%	103
Last 180 days	90.6%	804
All time	87.7%	29,617
Japanese, last 180 days	100.0%	7

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