What's the game about?

PC System Requirements

A set of minimum and recommended system requirements for the game are also available. The game is fairly light on hardware requirements compared to recent AAA games, which should be a welcome sight for those without the latest and greatest PCs. The full requirements are as listed below:

Anno 1800 Minimum System Requirements

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2 GHz or AMD FX-6350 3.9 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB System Memory
• GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory
• GPU: GeForce GTX 670 or Radeon R9 285
• DX: DirectX 11
• HDD: 60 GB Available Hard Drive Space

Anno 1800 Recommended System Requirements

• OS: Windows 10 64-bit
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.5 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB System Memory
• GPU RAM: 4 GB Video Memory
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 480
• DX: DirectX 11
• HDD: 60 GB Available Hard Drive Space

Anno 1800 - The Game

Anno 1800 is a city building real-time strategy video game, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft, and is set to be launched within April 2019. It is the seventh game in the Anno series, and returns to the use of a historical setting following the last two titles, Anno 2070 and Anno 2205, taking place during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Following the previous installment, the game returns to the series' traditional city-building and ocean combat mechanics, but introduces new aspects of gameplay, such as tourism, "blue-printing", and the effects of industrialisation influences on island inhabitants.

Industrialisation is the theme of the year 1800. The setting is more than just decoration, it influences all aspects of the gameplay, has effects on features from pollution to worker strikes. Cannons, trains, the exploration of new technologies and the triumphal march of capitalism; the industrialisations of the 18th and 19th centuries have a big outcome on the general playstyle in 1800.

The blueprint mode of Anno 1800 is one of the new additions to the series. It helps the player by allowing them to plan out their city with silhouetted "blueprint" buildings, without immediately spending valuable resources on actually constructing them. If a player wants to construct a building, but has insufficient resources, it can also place a blueprint of the building for later, when the player has acquired more resources. Once planning is done, and the necessary resources are gathered, each building in the blueprint can be built with a single click.

The concept of a city's attractiveness is newly introduced in Anno 1800. Tourists will flock to cities that they consider to be attractive, and thus, they will contribute to the city's income. Tourists consider things such as natural land, local festivities, and various decorative ornaments as beautiful, but dislike pollution, local unrest, and noisy or smelly industry. Thus, the player must balance the natural beauty of a city against its industrial profitability.