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Anno 1800
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
61 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A phenomenal game that refuses to work through Steam. I can start it, play a single session and then never be able to boot it up against past a black screen without going through god knows how many hoops of resetting…”
“Awesome game ruined by Ubisoft Connect.”
“WOW! This game is one amazing game. I love everything about it. I highly recommend this game to everyone who like city building games. You can play this with friends or alone.”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“After the rather disappointing futuristic entries, the series finally returned to its roots. Anno 1800 is incredibly well-developed, offers a huge amount of building and decoration options, and can keep you hooked for…”
“The best ANNO ever! Starts in a familiar way, but adds much more dept in the endgame with electrification. Has everything you expect in an ANNO game. And that's just the base game. They spent years making DLC to just…”
“Amazing game that you can sink a lot of time into. While not perfect, I really enjoy it every time I play it. The DLC's add a lot, but the game is perfectly playable without them.”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The best ANNO ever! Starts in a familiar way, but adds much more dept in the endgame with electrification. Has everything you expect in an ANNO game. And that's just the base game. They spent years making DLC to just…”
“Amazing game that you can sink a lot of time into. While not perfect, I really enjoy it every time I play it. The DLC's add a lot, but the game is perfectly playable without them.”
“This game with all DLC and beefed with some of the most amazing mods is an incredible game!”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“If you enjoy logistics, beautiful 19th-century aesthetics, and accidentally forgetting to eat because your rum production in the New World is 2% inefficient, this is your game.”
“Visual site of the game is awesome. Games principals are nicely balanced. Personally I would appreciate harder level of game because enemies are pretty predictable. It would be great to have more than 2 starting maps.…”
“Don't even know what i am doing, but i am loving it and it is so morish!! Graphics are on point, the game is just hours of endless play, seriously, its never ending, but then again i do have all the DLCs, worth it btw.…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“of course its recommended! it works flawlessly, its intricate, challenging and fun. nothing is amiss. my only problem, its even too big and much to do. one session can really become endless”
“As you might expect from my hours played, I love Anno 1800! The graphics are pleasing - especially the natural wilderness and waterfalls, and various ships sailing along. I really like the mechanics of the economy. It's…”
21 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Long story short I lost access to my ubisoft account email and despite being able to show Ubisoft support my creditcard purchase statement and my steam receipt I can't play this game. Their entire support team are…”
“A phenomenal game that refuses to work through Steam. I can start it, play a single session and then never be able to boot it up against past a black screen without going through god knows how many hoops of resetting…”
“Awesome game ruined by Ubisoft Connect.”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“A phenomenal game that refuses to work through Steam. I can start it, play a single session and then never be able to boot it up against past a black screen without going through god knows how many hoops of resetting…”
“I bought DLC and the game broke because of Ubisoft launcher. Absolute trash”
“I was enjoying the game till I discovered that the Queen's Flagship (needed for the Prosecution quest) was no longer showing on any map. All advice sourced via the intrawebs point to going back to an earlier save where…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“One of my fav games in the franchise and overall. Couple bugs here and there. Some frustrating game logic here and there. Like when you setup a distribution trade route and instead of unloading 20t of potatoes, your…”
“Visual site of the game is awesome. Games principals are nicely balanced. Personally I would appreciate harder level of game because enemies are pretty predictable. It would be great to have more than 2 starting maps.…”
“Love playing Anno 1800, I'd say I got addicted to it so I gotta stop for a bit. You need DLCs to make it more fun so I suggest you buy when there's huge discount. Graphics is so good!! The ambience and audio is also…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“One of my fav games in the franchise and overall. Couple bugs here and there. Some frustrating game logic here and there. Like when you setup a distribution trade route and instead of unloading 20t of potatoes, your…”
“Trying to connect roads to buildings makes the game not worth playing. No matter if you rotate the building or try building the road before or after the building construction. I spent over an hour trying to figure it…”
“The game is very good and is probably still the best in the series, but it suffers from the major problems of city-building games: the need to rebuild the city to accommodate new technologies, which completely ruins the…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Long story short I lost access to my ubisoft account email and despite being able to show Ubisoft support my creditcard purchase statement and my steam receipt I can't play this game. Their entire support team are…”
“A phenomenal game that refuses to work through Steam. I can start it, play a single session and then never be able to boot it up against past a black screen without going through god knows how many hoops of resetting…”
“One of my fav games in the franchise and overall. Couple bugs here and there. Some frustrating game logic here and there. Like when you setup a distribution trade route and instead of unloading 20t of potatoes, your…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 81.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“FYI just blacklist the Ubisoft Launcher exes (check Task Manager when game is open) in your firewall and the game just skips the launcher, no ubisoft account required”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“Honestly one of my favorite games. You can dump hundreds of hours into one save! The problems I have are that in order to play it you need to use Ubisoft Connect and it will automatically link product keys through their 3rd party bs. Lets say for example you purchased the game…”
— a player, Steam review · 291 hrs played“Awesome game, But cant play it now because of Ubisoft. So i have to buy it again and get a activation code. I had to become a pirate to play this again. Thumbs down for Ubisoft. 95/100 for the game”
— a player, Steam review · 104 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:06 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Strategy · Simulation · Economy · Multiplayer · Resource Management · Sandbox · RTS · Co-op · Singleplayer · Exploration · Management (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian, German * , Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian * , Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 112 |
| Estimated owners | 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.anno-union.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10(64-bit versions only) Processor: Intel i5 3470, AMD FX 6350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 670 GTX or AMD Radeon R9 285 (2 GB of VRAM, Shader Model 5.0) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 60 GB available space