Anno 1800
2019
Audio: French, English, German, Russian · Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, German, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish
- real time strategy (rts)
- simulator
- strategy
- historical
- business
- single player
- multiplayer
- co-operative
The story
Anno 1800: Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
What it’s like
Warm, busy sunlight over island coastlines: Anno 1800 looks like a hand-painted diorama brought to life, with bright turquoise shallows, lush green hills and tidy brick-and-timber towns that bloom into smokestack-lined industrial districts as the game moves on. The camera hangs high in a tilted isometric view, so cities read like miniature toys, and the palette shifts gradually from pastoral greens toward soot greys and rust. The score is orchestral and bright, with light strings and brass that swell gently when a new factory comes online and fall away into lapping waves and birdsong when things are calm. Vibe: unhurried, absorbing, quietly satisfying, with a steady hum of progress. It suits a rainy Sunday, a long evening of tinkering alone, or background focus while doing something else, since the pace is set by you and nothing demands a sudden reaction. Violence is limited to naval skirmishes and occasional raids, shown from far away as small puffs of cannon smoke and sinking ships, with no gore and no gratuitous cruelty. Its industrial-age themes of exploitation and empire are handled through systems and choices rather than graphic content. Made for players who enjoy planning efficient supply chains, watching a settlement grow block by block, and the calm of a well-run economy.
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