Developer: Blue Byte
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release: Out now
On: Windows
From: Epic
For: 50
After playing through Anno 1800 s early game a few times (I m one of those ghastly bastards who tends to compulsively restart if things aren t going exactly my way), I started writing a very different article to the one you are now reading. The issue was, I hadn t realised I was playing the early game at all. I had the feeling I d seen the lion s share of what there was to see, and was ready to pack up and write something along the lines of great fun, but I m not sure about replayability . Then I played some more. And some more. And around six hours later, like someone who s seen a handful of wasps in their house and so decides to go up into the attic to try to find out why, I was forced to drastically re-evaluate my position. Folks, Anno 1800 is a lot.