Rejoice because Tropico ($11.99) for iPad from Feral Interactive is finally available on the App Store. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been seeing more of the port with a lengthy gameplay showcase on iPad Pro. If you’ve never played a game in the series or heard of Tropico, it is construction and management simulation experience with a generous serving of political simulation. You play as El Presidente taking over an island. Watch the gameplay video below:
Tropico on iPad has a redesigned interface for touch controls and as mentioned multiple times before, has no in app purchases. It is a premium game. It is also coming to iPhone in 2019 but there’s no word on supported iPhone models yet. It will likely be only for newer models given the iPad requirements.
Tropico is now available for $11.99 on the App Store for iPad. If you missed the device requirements, Tropico will support iPad (5th generation), iPad (6th generation), iPad Pro (1st generation both sizes), iPad Pro (2nd generation both sizes), and iPad Pro (3rd generation both sizes). The official website for Tropico from Feral Interactive is also live here. Are you planning on stepping into the shoes of El Presidente on the go?
It won't install on a ipad air 2? what feature is the air missing ? it's not a old device ...
Oh shoot, no Tropico for me then, bummer (Air 2 me too).
It looks like they want an A9 CPU at least (5th gen iPad) and not the A8X of the Air 2 (between the 4th and 5th gen).
That is surprising, considering how fast the air 2 is .. they could have made a compromise and lowered the graphics fidelity slightly to get it to run well on the older devices.
Its a conspiracy to sell more Apple hardware ;)
Which is a good time to buy, actually, since 2018 standard ipad is currently on sale on Amazon and Walmart for $250 for 32gb version. $320 for 128gb.
You can get almost $200 selling the Air 2 on the used market — though might be an easier task after the current sale is over.
Same. Not supporting the Air 2 is extremely disappointing. Maybe I'll try it when it's released on iPhone, but I'd rather play it on the iPad's larger screen. I'm not ready to upgrade tablets though, so I guess they're not getting my money.
It may not make a difference, but I emailed [email protected] and requested they expand support to our devices. Doesn't hurt to ask, especially if enough people express an interest.
Got the Air 2 so no Tropico for iPad for me. I hope the iPhone Tropic UI's gonna be usable on the X display.
it's extremely weird seeing how the air 2 is more powerful than the 5th gen that it does run on ... it runs Civ6 w/o any issues
For single-core performance, the A9 is better than the A8X (which has better multi-core performance). Perhaps they based the performance requirement on single-core capability?
iPad (5th generation) = A9 @ 1.85GHz
iPad Air 2 = A8X @ 1.5GHz
Yep, another Air 2 owner here who can’t/won’t be playing.
Yep, another iPad Air 2 owner....very disappointed. That company is locking itself off from potential sales.