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I’ve heard so much about the board game Puerto Rico and I’ve always wanted to try it. It seems to be a balance of allocating production assets, positioning oneself to make the most out of a limited shipment space, and balancing easy, short-term exports against exports that are more exclusive and, possibly, financially rewarding. Having said this, I’ve never played the game. But Alex turned me on to a free, Java-based clone of Puerto Rico called Tropic Euro, which takes the gameplay of the original board game (plus its two-player variant, plus its building expansion) and changes its context to a post-World War II tropical island. In it you plant, harvest, and export goods back to Europe for victory points and, ultimately, some crazy abstraction that we like to call victory.