Tropico is one of my all time favourites on the PC and this iPad adaptation is like a best-off from all Tropico games there are. It also works really well on the big iPad touch screen, making it a more immersive experience than on the PC.

It looks neat and is bug free. I will there were more games of this quality in the App Store.

I never imagined that I’ll be able to play a full Tropico game on my iPad. The game runs great and looks nice, but it’s a bit of a battery drain(better than expected).

Being a full port of the PC game, it’s by FAR the deepest and most complete city builder for iOS. Search for Tropico 3 if you want to see gameplay and reviews.

As others have mentioned, there are some small problems with the control scheme, but I’m not sure how it can be improved considering we are using a touchscreen.

Love the game and would be 5 stars but I seem to be playing in total silence? Have tried the volume settings, restarting and game and iPad and nothing...still silence.

I love SimCity and Civilisation, but this game just doesn’t make sense to me. The controls are fiddly, the various interventions don’t seem to be tied together in any sensible way, and the information needed to make decisions is scattered and tedious to find.

The tutorials are too much about the voice actors, and not enough about how the game works.

I just don’t get it, evidently others find something in it that I’m missing.

Had a problem on my iPad Pro with a bug shutting down the game just before the end of the level, sent an email to the developers through the app and didn’t think anything was going to happen and within a week the game was updated and now haven’t had the problem since.

Great to see developers paying attention and doing bug fixes even after youve got the game!

This happens in Real life. like the BBC fake News chanel

I have loved Tropico since the early PC releases and this is an outstanding port on iPad offering the full experience. The price is higher than a typical game on the App Store but this reflects the fact that this is a full game with no added extras to purchase. Excellent game and fully recommended, I look forward to the developer bringing more ports to iPad, and hopefully more Tropico titles in future!

Amazing I could play this for like hours and hours good job for a MOBILE game!

This game is perfect for my style, I love the choice to shoot people, I normally do it on protestors. Overall the game is brilliant fun and worth all the money, only thing I would ask is for more building to put the cherry on top

Thank you Developers

Game crashes and looses progress. Also game play is not thought out very well. 1 star rated mainly due to price if this was £2.99 it would be acceptable. I would actually quite like my money if you don’t mind as I’ve lost my game twice now.

The game is good however it would be nice to be able to have unlimited money in sandbox and still have rebellions and things

Game plays & looks really good on iPad Pro, has kept me off RTW.

Fingers crossed for Company of Heroes next please 🤞🏻

Game won’t load past opening screen, very frustrating when paid £11.99 for the game

Plays just like tropico 4 but without the politics side of things

This was till i Was happily playing and the game crashed and when I went back on all my saved data was gone 🤬🤬😡

Long term fan of Tropico, and this must be a perfect port. Haven’t manage to find any faults... Perfect!

Top notch, great game

I tried to change my last review but couldn’t so hear I write again.

Thanks for an amazing port. I just managed to find all I needed to know about the controls and game and I must say, thank you devs for an amazing game. Been looking for a good iPad game and of course it is Tropico.

I can say to others to have patience. You will love this game on iPad. Looking forward to ad on’s in the future. Absolutely amazing.

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Sorry to hear some users have had problems with the game. I’ve had none. Tropico was one of the first games I ever played on Mac, and this is a fantastic port.

This despot-sandbox looks great (who would have thought that this kind of detail would be possible on a tablet back in the day?), runs smoothly, has no in-app purchases, has loads of options in terms of how you run your city, and overall is great fun. Kudos to Feral. Highly recommended by me.

Having played Tropico many years ago on a computer, I never thought an iPad version would be as good or better than the original. This game is brilliant, loads of fun had over the Christmas holidays, and I especially like NO IN PLAY PURCHASES! I tip my hat to the creators, a job well done. 5 stars.

It is a great game, it is exactly the kind of game you want on an iPad, but like others had said, it is buggy. For it to crash/force close and not have auto saved so you lose 20 years of game progress is shocking, and it hadn’t happened once either.

I have pretty much the best iPad money can buy with 5/6ths of available space remaining. No other games seem to have this issue so I have to assume it’s purely Tropico which does.

I’m grateful that it’s not littered with ads or in game purchases, but there is only so many times you can put up with crashes/game progress loss until you’re fed up with trying.

After playing this game on PC years ago I loved it and still love it now long time waiting but so pleased it’s on the iPad

Great work

Bugging and crashing a lot

Never played it before, but Feral have a good rep, so I risked it. Very immersive and detailed - and funny. It’s got me off RTW so it must be good!

Great port very impressed, no audio on my iPad though, not a single sound since installation.

Tropico is one of my all time favourite games. I was a little unsure how the port to an iPad would work. However, it is utterly brilliant. The developers have done an amazing job.

The controls take a little getting used to, but, as others have noted, this is only to be expected given the touch screen. That said, they soon become intuitive. The graphics are stunning. This is as beautiful as one could hope for. More to the point, it retains all the in-depth and complex game play elements from the desktop games. This is not a simple game. But it is endlessly rewarding to play as you discover new elements. There is so much to it. And the wonderful Latin soundtrack is there along with heaps of humour and fun. The only downside is the battery drain, but this is to be expected given the processing power needed to do so many things.

Well done and many thanks to the development team. I hoped that one day Tropico would come to the iPad. I’m not disappointed.

Can’t agree with the early negative comments here saying it’s clunky etc. I’ve had a few goes with it now and think it’s great. Feral have done well adapting it for the iPad. Took me a while to get used to the panning and zooming around the map but you can lower the sensitivity of zooming and rotating etc in the settings to suit. Also, a nice little touch is that if you move/pinch the camera using the top half of the screen, it moves quicker than if you use the bottom half. The negative reviewers clearly haven’t found this out yet. As for placement of buildings, there’s no problem there either. Easy to drag the building around by holding your finger down on the building you wish to move. With handy rotate buttons around the building. Another great touch here is that you can still zoom in and out with ease while you position the building. The graphics are similar to Tropico 5 on the PS4 and that in itself is remarkable although I hear the game is actually based on Tropico 3. Very enjoyable - all the humour is there and also all the depth. 5 out of 5 from me.

Superb game tropico on iPad graphics are getting towards that of consoles and pcs and it’s basically a full game of tropico if they bring out lots of add on packs with scenarios and stuff that would make it even better I give 5 star despite a couple of issues which was I’ve had a couple of crashes on iPad Pro if that can be fixed it would make it nearly perfect and sometimes when writing comes up giving hints it disappears too quick to read but this game is quality there’s no doubt tropico on ipad

Without question the most annoying game I’ve ever had the misfortune to play. All looks great from the videos but the controls are so bad on this that moving in a direction you’d like takes all your patience. You just can’t get anything done! Such a shame as had high hopes..don’t even think I can give it another go as I’ll end up throwing my iPad against the wall. How can this get past the testing phase???? And for £12...shocking!

Great game, gorgeous graphics, no in-app purchases make it well worth the money. Very addictive, I can’t stop playing for hours, very difficult to make a profit though.

I played to death the third Tropico on my Mac back in high school. The port is excellent, however, the battery drain is over the top. Also this game will benefit from Apple Pencil and keyboard shortcuts support for sure.

I’m playing this on my iPad Pro good graphics and sound track top marks well worth the money

Boy - I cannot believe I paid £11.99 for this. The controls are clunky - almost impossible to ‘place’ a farm, for example - and the graphics are a joke. The game is pretty much unplayable on my iPad 2017 and I cannot believe they released it in this state. Feeling ripped off!!