Yeah, when I first saw T6 the archipelago gameplay looked interesting, but I think the gameplay is the same with one island, just the map looks different. Building bridges and tunnels or whatever if it can be done not just to connect islands, but to direct traffic, that would be cool. Especially roundabouts. I saw other things were added via DLCs.
The chief minus is how gay all the related art looks like. Like Sims. Okay, they were at there level by 4.
Tried to look up what each DLC adds. Found on that obnoxious "fandom" site this:
>Players can express themselves by customizing their avatar,
>express themselves
Literally what the fuck. How is this expressing, communicating anything? Fucking hipster gibberish.
Anyway DLCs are lackluster and add features - like bribes - which should be in the base game.
Frankly the most disappointing thing in all Tropico games is that they don't build on enough on the evil dictator (be it left or right leaning) theme. "Enough", they are nowhere to bare minimum. The game should reward for do those things, but they are inconvenient, and actually penalizing. By the 6th installment, but I think even the 4 was like that, they reached total family friendliness levels, where these dictatorial tools are basically endearing quirks.

Srsly. Bernd should make a 3rd world shithole banana rape-ublic dictator similator, in the footsteps of Dungeon Keeper, where actually you are the "bad guy". It still could be funny and caricature-istic, but nothing of this fucking "drone-delivery company" bullshit. Unless it delivers drone strikes to political opponents.