Tropico is a city-building construction and management simulation video game series created by PopTop Software.

With the exception of Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, the games task players to assume control of "El Presidente", a ruler who runs an island-based banana republic.

[1] Elaborating on the concept of the game, PopTop's Franz Felsl said that the player's "job is social engineering as much as it is urban planning and industry building".

[11] The series stayed dormant for years until Kalypso Media acquired the intellectual property rights from Take-Two Interactive.

[13] Haemimont returned for the development of Tropico 4, which introduced new gameplay features such as a narrative campaign and natural disasters.

As a result, the team decided to not reuse any codes from previous games, and started from scratch, creating assets from the ground up for Tropico 5.

In December 2020, Kalypso Media announced that it had fully acquired Realmforge Studios, most known for being the creators of the Dungeons series.

It also announced that Realmforge Studios will be the developer of all future content for the franchise, starting with the "Caribbean Skies" DLC for Tropico 6.