It's a great game, but I only played 52h so far. If any of the above sounds interesting, or you enjoy the non-combat / economy portions of games like Civilization, I would highly encourage you to give it a shot!

I am quite new to strategy games so maybe I'm just inexperienced, but from where I am at the moment this is one of the best games of this genre I have ever played, and I haven't even started with the DLC yet. You are constantly making decisions on a regular basis, and it just becomes incredibly easy to lose hours to the game thinking 'oh, I'll just raise enough cash to get a ceasefire with these pirates', or 'just one more production chain and then I'm logging off for the night'. Deal with NPC players who will will try and buy shares in your island, or just flat out attack you.Deal with pirates who will consistently sabotage the trade routes mentioned above, throwing your entire economy off balance.Build your cities in a scalable way, taking into account that your population will upgrade tiers and will have different needs for the buildings that surround them.the New World map has rum which needs to be consumed by workers in both the New World and the Old World maps, meaning that you have to overproduce and ship the appropriate amount).

Manage trade routes between the various maps, each of which contain their own islands with their own produce (i.e.Manage trade routes between your islands on each map to make sure that the consumption is levelled out - some islands have fertilities to make products on other islands, so you have to ship them across, taking into account the distance between the islands and the amount of workforce you can spare to produce those products.At any given point in the game you have to simultaneously: The first couple of hours seem like a pretty standard city-building type thing, but the more you play the more complicated the whole thing gets to the point where you are multitasking decision-making on several islands / maps.

I recently made a thread asking for strategy game without combat recommendations, and Anno 1800 was one of games suggested - I decided to give it a go and this game has completely consumed the past several days of my life.įor those of view that haven't played it, this is a city building game set in the 19th century with less of a focus on combat and more of a focus on setting up complex trade routes and economies to keep your increasingly growing population happy.

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