im new to the game is it hard

[meredith999]

just wondering

[Pansophist]

Its probably the easiest Anno of all. The production layouts are simple, easy to follow and there are very few enemies unless you choose hard mode.

[Magni]

Anno games can be very easy and newbie-friendly if you use friendly settings to generate your map. Large islands, lots of resources, few and friendly AIs etc.

[RPGpro]

It's very easy to get started but there are some extremely hard challenges for you to aim for if you want to try getting all of the achievements/unlocks

[Moridin]

To be honest, of the steam anno games, 2205 is the easiest. though its not really a good anno game as it lacks a lot of things that made them good, like skirmish mode.

That said. 2070 is easy enough to learn and hard to master. the campain doubles as the tutorial.
1404 is considered to be the best, but is, overall, harder.

[RPGpro]

Just to add here too, While Anno 2070 does use an always-online system, it takes advantage of it in a fairly creative way (Cross-save resource and tech transfers, timed events, etc.), this means that as you play and slowly get more resources and better tech, you can then transfer them to future (or previous) saves in order to build better stuff faster. Several of the hardest challenges are specifically balanced to take advantage of this system (and some block the use of it).
This makes it... unique... while still keeping hold of Anno's gameplay.
2205 tried to create a new spin on this without the always-online requirement but... it got mixed reviews at release.

[Moridin]

2205 got mixed reviews cause it abandoned a lot of what made anno, anno. story mode only, no real AI competitors, no random maps, no multiplayer , overly simplified tech tree, being forced to go to different maps, build up in it and trade resourses between the two, instant trade of resourses instead of waiting for ships to physically sail the distance, cant build your own fleet, combat only missions on combat only maps you had to load every time, being able to tell exactly how much extra of a item you are producing so you can balance production/consumption easier.

to be fair, not all of that list was bad but there was enough bad changes in it that it didnt do very well. most it went back to form in 1800 though did keep the seperate maps for different biomes, trading between them and being able to tell how much of something your making.

2070 is just a better game overall, easy to learn hard to master.