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Tropico 3 cover art

Tropico 3

Haemimont Games · Kalypso Media Digital · 2009-10-20

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 20, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?

13
playing now
89%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.49
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Tropico 3 is a video game developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media. Like the previous games in the series, Tropico 3 is a construction and management simulation as well as a political simulation game, with emphasis on city building. As a thematic sequel to Tropico, the game attempts to return to the roots of the series, which puts the player into the shoes of "El Presidente" – a ruler governing over an island banana republic.

Health check

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  • · Top 23% of 6,689 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 78k–156k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,944 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.91-71%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.85 at GamersGate (2017-04-13) · bundled 15×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 93 of 154 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2132026-08-06 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 10 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 11 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 14 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 13 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 15 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 13 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 10 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 11 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 21 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 12 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 15 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 19 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 9 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-07-08 — best price $12.332015-12-21 — best price $6.492016-07-04 — best price $9.992017-01-16 — best price $9.992017-08-07 — best price $1.942018-01-07 — best price $9.992018-06-22 — best price $2.492018-11-13 — best price $9.992019-03-08 — best price $9.992019-07-23 — best price $9.992019-10-27 — best price $7.702020-02-02 — best price $7.852020-06-13 — best price $7.792020-08-28 — best price $2.992020-11-02 — best price $2.992021-01-22 — best price $2.992021-04-08 — best price $2.992021-06-12 — best price $7.792021-09-17 — best price $8.892022-01-02 — best price $9.992022-04-12 — best price $4.002022-07-27 — best price $8.392022-10-25 — best price $4.992023-02-04 — best price $9.992023-05-07 — best price $4.752023-08-19 — best price $8.882023-11-21 — best price $4.592024-02-17 — best price $9.992024-05-21 — best price $9.992024-08-20 — best price $4.452024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-03-08 — best price $9.992025-06-09 — best price $2.392025-09-22 — best price $7.192026-01-08 — best price $8.272026-04-17 — best price $8.592026-08-10 — best price $2.702026-08-25 — best price $2.91
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

70152026-05-30 — 34 pageviews2026-06-02 — 24 pageviews2026-06-05 — 32 pageviews2026-06-08 — 25 pageviews2026-06-11 — 22 pageviews2026-06-14 — 37 pageviews2026-06-17 — 30 pageviews2026-06-20 — 26 pageviews2026-06-23 — 25 pageviews2026-06-26 — 21 pageviews2026-06-29 — 38 pageviews2026-07-02 — 25 pageviews2026-07-05 — 33 pageviews2026-07-08 — 28 pageviews2026-07-11 — 28 pageviews2026-07-14 — 27 pageviews2026-07-17 — 31 pageviews2026-07-20 — 32 pageviews2026-07-23 — 31 pageviews2026-07-26 — 40 pageviews2026-07-29 — 26 pageviews2026-08-01 — 23 pageviews2026-08-04 — 31 pageviews2026-08-07 — 30 pageviews2026-08-10 — 42 pageviews2026-08-13 — 32 pageviews2026-08-16 — 22 pageviews2026-08-19 — 41 pageviews2026-08-22 — 27 pageviews2026-08-25 — 29 pageviews2026-08-27 — 48 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)7,0419%49

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyComedySatireEconomySandboxCold WarPoliticsStrategyManagementSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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