Anno 1800 2019

Is it still worth playing?

Ubisoft Blue Byte's 2019 city building and real time strategy game for Windows, the seventh in the Anno series and set in the 19th century at the dawn of the Industrial Age. It offers a story campaign, a sandbox and multiplayer, with randomly generated maps where trade routes and AI opponents share the same map, and naval warfare. Residents progress through class tiers, from farmers to investors, with rising demands, and building placement becomes precise grid planning, with a blueprint feature to plan buildings without spending resources. Tourism and city attractiveness are new mechanics, and diplomacy with other characters shows its success rate before you commit resources. Production chains and tiered populations that all have to be supplied still turn city layout into a planning puzzle today.