Tropico 5 - Inquisition DLC

Hhahaha my island is only catholic missions and my people still dont have religious satisfaction but it doesnt matter because im making infinite money because of one stupid building

Not alot of meat to this DLC its not really all that challenging and is somewhat short. The main gripe I have is that it all takes place during the colonial period. If the DLC was split into two missions one where you build up the Inquisition and another where you tear it down I feel the DLC would have been much better but as it stands the story line builds on the big bad inquisition only to end up being a boring let down. With that said I dont regret getting the DLC as the inquisiton building can sorta be useful (it detects hidden roles and upgraded gives you money for each church on the island) however for the most part this DLC isnt really worth the price.

Three earthquakes in a minute? Ridiculously short time for a mission that takes time? Really??? Worst mission in the entire franchise.

This review is in English and Slovak language: Táto recenzia je v Anglickom a Slovenskom jazyku: This game has so much DLC for several times the price of the base game that I don't recommend this DLC because of developer greed, regardless of its content. Táto hra obsahuje toľko veľa DLC za sumu niekoľko násobne vyššiu ako je cena základnej hry, že toto DLC neodporúčam z dôvodu chamtivosti vývojára, bez ohľadu na jeho obsah.

They rape you with all these dlcs. but i ended up getting them all they should have been a buck each so keep that in mind when reading these reviews ill still give it a good review just because i liked the game regardless.

Terrible, time waster dlc, wait for events, complete event then do more waiting whilst being stuck in the colonial era with a time limit?!? I finished last event to win mission, it didnt register after 6 months and i lost due to being ousted by "his majesty" despite picking extended mandate every event reward i could, so i dont know how to complete this. It wasn't enjoyable to play and even less enjoyable to "win". RAGE! I don't like these micro dlcs but want to support the devs but this is just disgusting!

I literally used the Inquisition building once, and it didn't even work properly. Never used it ever again.

Boring, Stuck in the colonial period forever. Hard to win. New building is NOT useful in the play-on-your-own areas either. Horrible DLC. Do not waste your money!

I've bought all of the dlcs so far, and I've come to expect certain level of atleast mediocrity from them. But this is the first dlc I'll be giving negative review. The mission takes place only in the first era, which by my taste is sour. The new inquisition building is useful. But I cannot beat the scenario even when meeting all the winning conditions. The last objective (spoiler) is to survive the spanish retaliation strike for getting rid of the inquisition. I did that and got no further tasks. Yet I am not presented with the you win message, instead 10 months later ingame time and I lose the mission since my colonial mandate runs out. I got the feeling that it is the laziest dlc so far, with little detail to the objectives.

For the first time, I'm not going to dislike this DLC because of its price. This is just an outright horrible DLC. You know the deal by now: outfit, mission, building. Outfits are useless, so won't comment on it, but the mission and building are the laziest put together and this is by far the worst DLC released. The new building is the Inquisition. A colonial-era building, the Inquistion...wait, what exactly does it do? The building info page doesn't specify what it does. The main purpose is that it allows you to persecute a faction. What this actually means isn't explained, nor do I see any reason why you would bother persecuting factions. They're so irrelevant in the game that I doubt players even know what the factions are. The Inquisition can also be upgraded to make money from other religious buildings, and this can actually be quite profitable later in the game when you do have several religious buildings. The mission is terribly designed. Although it's nice to see a colonial-era mission other than the Big Cheese, the problem is that the colonial era is a very boring time period. It mainly serves as early-game raw material harvesting for later periods, but when you're stuck in the colonial period, there's nothing you can really do. You don't get access to the powerful economic buildings and you're limited to plantations and mines for income. To make things worse, you have to deal with the mandate time limit, and when the final objective throws a 12-month delay before it triggers, you really have to play the early game right to even make the mission winnable. The mission objective involves identifying and removing cultists. They are revealed by the Inquisition in a similar way to the Mad World DLC, and you have to manually click on each one to remove them (and at a price). This has to be the worst gameplay "mechanic" used. It's a stupid game of finding exclamation marks to get rid of them. Half your buildings get wrecked by scripted disasters every year just to frustrate you. Finally, you have to destroy the Inquisiton building and withstand a moderately-sized invasion, which is easily held off with a few guard towers and a squad of troops. And that's it. There's no "plot" in this mission, unlike many other DLC missions. There's no pop culture gimmick (you could swear they would make more Monty Python references other than the Spanish Inquisition, but no). This is plain insulting to Tropico players. There's hardly any voice dialogue in the DLC too, so for the developers to justify the cost by continually asserting the studio work they have to do makes no sense. It really looks like the creativity for each DLC is waning with each monthly release. What's next? The trend, unfortunately, looks like more overpriced and lazier content. https://youtu.be/f0zui68UanA