A city building game with a possible future for the real world.


So what is ANNO series to begin with? Originally called "DAWN OF DISCOVERY" in North America, this series has been around for a long time. According to Wuppo, another steam user, it is even older than that in North America, and i have confirmed it is. Even one of the earlier games can be found on steam. Anyways, at it's heart, ANNO series is basically a city building simulator with missions and quests to complete stuff.

This version of the game, 2205, unlike it's last predecessor, 2070, has a few changes. At the time of this writing, it has no multiplayer in the game, nor does it include a sandbox mode, even though if you finish the main storyline, it becomes sorta a sandbox game. The only multiplayer online features for this game at this moment is voting and world trade market prices. Both these things take info from all players on the game, and either increases prices on goods or loweres them. Also, it takes census of votes from everyone, similiar to the voting system found on 2070.

The game can be addictive if your into city builder games. Be aware this game uses UPLAY by Ubisoft, since they made the game. UPLAY requires a account to use the game on it. If you do not have one, when you 1st try the game, it will ask you to make an account, forcing you into making one for playing this game, but this is not uncommon for other UPLAY games, as 2070 also requires the same thing. Uplay, honestly, has improved than it previously was. As for me personally, i have used uplay in the past, and it has been worst than it is now, including outages and even not recognizing your game keys or even purchased games. Now, it seems these problems has been fixed on uplay and is much more stable.

One other thing is that there is a app that requires a smartphone. Since i don't own a smartphone, i cannot say how this app or how it works in the game, but i imagine it does what it says, gives additional rare building stuff to use.

I recommend this game if you like city builders.If not a fan of city builders, please avoid getting or buying this game. Also, if you can, buy on sale with all dlc's..as they add alot of more content to the game than what the base game contains and give you more options in the game.

Thanks to Wuppo for pointing out the information on how old the series actually is.

A city building game with a possible future for the real world. So what is ANNO series to begin with? Originally called "DAWN OF DISCOVERY" in North America, this series has been around for a long time. According to Wuppo, another steam user, it is even older than that in North America, and i have confirmed it is. Even one of the earlier games can be found on steam. Anyways, at it's heart, ANNO series is basically a city building simulator with missions and quests to complete stuff. This version of the game, 2205, unlike it's last predecessor, 2070, has a few changes. At the time of this writing, it has no multiplayer in the game, nor does it include a sandbox mode, even though if you finish the main storyline, it becomes sorta a sandbox game. The only multiplayer online features for this game at this moment is voting and world trade market prices. Both these things take info from all players on the game, and either increases prices on goods or loweres them. Also, it takes census of votes from everyone, similiar to the voting system found on 2070. The game can be addictive if your into city builder games. Be aware this game uses UPLAY by Ubisoft, since they made the game. UPLAY requires a account to use the game on it. If you do not have one, when you 1st try the game, it will ask you to make an account, forcing you into making one for playing this game, but this is not uncommon for other UPLAY games, as 2070 also requires the same thing. Uplay, honestly, has improved than it previously was. As for me personally, i have used uplay in the past, and it has been worst than it is now, including outages and even not recognizing your game keys or even purchased games. Now, it seems these problems has been fixed on uplay and is much more stable. One other thing is that there is a app that requires a smartphone. Since i don't own a smartphone, i cannot say how this app or how it works in the game, but i imagine it does what it says, gives additional rare building stuff to use. I recommend this game if you like city builders.If not a fan of city builders, please avoid getting or buying this game. Also, if you can, buy on sale with all dlc's..as they add alot of more content to the game than what the base game contains and give you more options in the game. Thanks to Wuppo for pointing out the information on how old the series actually is.