Is this game good ?

[Ardordor]

mmhh?

[MISFITPANDA]

Great game, Bought day 1 and let me tell you. I like it better than 1404 anno only because its based in the 1800s. Reminds me a lot of Red dead Redemption 2 at Saint Denis

[Humble]

Amazing game, I played 1,700 hours on ubisoft connect.

[sgtwhipple]

This game is a nightmarish slog of endless battles against bugs, DRM, and Ubisoft Connect. As for the game itself. I have no idea. Have not got to play it yet. I've only gotten to the "Ubisoft Connect Dungeon of CD key demands". I have yet to find this "key" to unlock the door out, and actually play the game.

[Heka]

game it self is a godsend

[Stockwerk 13]

I bought the game 3 days ago and i am allready ~30 hours into it.

The game starts easy but gets incredibly complex and indepth fast, i am completly addicted and just cant stop playing.
There is allways something new challenging you, new production chains, new islands to conquer, new trade routes, then suddenly you need to build bus stops arround the city for tourists, meanwhile you dont even find the time to explore the other world maps / climate zones, all of them with new questlines and unique challenges. Then there is SO much to optimize with layouts and items. There is so much creativity and thinking in this. Not only you want your city to function as good as it can, you also want it to look good... And there are sooo many different ways to go about this, its really great.
What i can say is that the learning curve is good, u dont feel overwhelmed but challanged, The skill ceiling however is incredibly high since there is so much different stuff to learn - i rebuild the layout in my city like 5 times now and i can see me another 5 times redoing my city districts entirely.

The game itself is superb 10/10, the graphics, the gameplay loop, the amount of content - the only negatives about this game in my eyes so far is its performance.
I run a 3600x and 2070s and on mid to high settings in ultrawide 3440x1440p i get 60 FPS but when i zoom in my main city it drops to the 30s and 40s - all while my CPU and GPu only run at ~50%.
So pretty bad optimization.
There is other stuff i found on google like going offline in ur ubisoft connect which apperently gives FPS boost. The whole need for the ubisoft launcher and Denuvo is a shame. Or the questionable DLC policy. And no steam achievements.

So the game itself is great, 10/10.
But the surrounding stuff like launcher, many, manyyy DLCs, performance, etc is pretty annoying, which is why my total rating is: 8.5/10 !

I feel with a different publisher or self published without the annyoying ubisoft shenanigans this would be a definitive masterpiece in gaming history.

I rarely get addicted to single player games, the only other single player which addicts me like Anno 1800 is Stellaris. I can see myself spending many houndreds of hours in this just as i do with Stellaris.


This is my main City i came up with after ~30 hours:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900303724
(i just have engineers and tourists unlocked and made my first million $$$)
I thought i was well through the game, but then i unlocked Engineers and ohhhh boi is there PLENTY of stuff to do.
I propably spend another 100-200 hours just on my first run.

TLDR: Its great, im loving it.

[Ardordor]

Originally posted by VonBraun:

Ardordor I have never played any of Anno series. I hesitated after reading many of the negative reviews, but most are complaining about Ubisoft v. Steam platform launch and peoples disgust. I plunged and bought the Ultimate Edition. I'm a player who enjoys the city building, era of Industrial Revolution and grand strategy genre. I have to tell you, I've played about 4 hrs. and have enjoyed the game thus far. I'm not to far along in the campaign and many things pop-up for to do tasks, a bit too much for me LOL but I have not regretted my purchase yet. I hope this helps you.

it does bro thx

[Carinthian Oak]

One of the best Games out there, the Music, Graphics, Gameplay etc., everything is amazing.

[moka]

It's a top-tier game... when it starts. That's why we want it to work, if it sucked we wouldn't care and instead we would go play something else

[Philomel_D8]

anno 1800 = anno 2070 + anno 2205
best anno game +1

[Humble]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

Originally posted by moka:

It's good enough for the narrator to remind you that you've been playing for several hours and that it's time to take a break

Yup and he gets increasingly cranky before eventually giving up haha

Try playing 16 hour to see it said.

[Jimi]

It's a great game, a real time sinker though

My one complaint is that, even in sandbox mode, you are unable to take money out of the equation and just build to your hearts content.

[Wuik]

Hello,
i have played this game since the beginning and got alls the achievements, it is really a great game.
But every DLC make the game less and less complicate than at the beginning...
So my best level was 99 before the next DLC so after i never go to the 100 ..^^
For my own pleasure i have made the challenge to reprodusting Bright Sands identically.
https://anno1800.fandom.com/wiki/City_layouts?file=Bright_Sands.png

To me the best layout for big and easy town and work for alls the DLC of the game , :
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/anno1800/images/e/e2/Anno_invest.png/revision/latest?cb=20200601225934

[Leanardoe]

Why not read the reviews?

[sgtwhipple]

I'm sure its a nice game. Too bad nobody on Steam can play it because Ubisoft wont fix the DRM CDkey issues.

[Caduryn]

Originally posted by Leanardoe:

Why not read the reviews?

Because they are faked because of Steam Achivement Fanboys