Anno game order: This is how you play the economic simulation correctly

Anno is one of the best-known video game series from Germany. Find out here how to play Anno in the right order.

Anno: Discover, settle and develop goods

With “Anno 1602” started in 1998 one of today’s best-known economic simulations for the PC. Initially based in Austria, German developers have also been working since 2004, although Ubisoft has only been in charge since 2007. Basically, Anno is about the Development of new settlement areas, which are represented in the form of islands. An expedition ship, fully loaded with workers and goods, is available to you at the beginning.

Once you have set up your first trading post, you start settling on the island. You can obtain it from various workshops new goods. The population increases with the construction of houses. The economy theme gains in importance with every hour of play complexity, because the needs of your residents keep increasing. So you not only settle, but also search for trading partners as well as for new raw materials that are located on distant islands.

Would you like to replay the classics of the Anno series piece by piece? Then look at them “Anno History Collection“ more precisely:

Anno: Different approaches to economic simulation

Meanwhile, some Anno games have come onto the market. Next to one contemporary presentation However, the approaches to innovations also change in some cases. In “Anno 2070”, for example, you can sign up for a ecologically valuable play style decide or follow exploitative paths. Those would bring you some profit, but the planet’s resources would be badly affected.

In “Anno 2205”, on the other hand, you can reach orbit via rockets and colonize the moon. All of this makes for a welcome change. In “Anno 1800”, the current offshoot of the series, you go back on the paths past epochs. In addition to numerous awards and high critic ratings, the game is also extremely popular with gamers, so content updates and DLCs for the game continue to appear.

The launch trailer of the base game gives you a small overview of “1800“:

The correct order of Anno at a glance

As you can see, Anno is a diverse and complex series of town building and strategy games. The following list tells you how to play Anno in the correct order. Of course, the years help a lot if you chronologically want to play:

1. Year 1404
2. Year 1503
3. Year 1602
4. Year 1701
5. 1800
6. Year 2070
7. Year 2205

In addition to the actual Anno games are still additional offshoots published. These line up not enter the main sequence and almost all come without year out of. The following list shows you the additional games from Anno in the order in which they were released:

1. Anno 1701 (DS offshoot)
2. Anno: create a new world
3. Anno Online (discontinued): browser game
4. Anno: Create a Kingdom (Closed)

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