Dawn of Discovery 2009

Also known as Anno 1404

Released: June 25, 2009
Genres: Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Simulator · Strategy · Adventure
Platform: PC
Developers: Related Designs · Blue Byte
Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment
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A city builder and economic simulation with real time strategy elements, released for Windows in 2009 and known in Europe as Anno 1404. Its medieval world is split in two, the Occident and the Orient, and you build in both at once. Western settlers climb from peasants to citizens, patricians and noblemen, while the Orient has nomads and envoys. Trade drives everything forward, since the Occident needs eastern goods such as spice and quartz to advance. The great building projects are a Gothic cathedral and an Arabic mosque. Along the way there is naval and ground combat, diplomacy with computer players and a sandbox mode, and the expansion Venice added multiplayer. Two halves of a world that depend on each other's goods still make every new street part of a longer chain.