Anno 2205™

Anno 2205™

Skip · Strategy · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 25, under the fair line, at $39.99.

Cost per hour▼
$2.20/hr
Reviews▼
70% of 6,384
Critics
72 players 2 lower
Genre rank
Top 61% Strategy

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
18.2h
To 100%
60.7h 3.3x the story
Finish
23% reach the ending
Achievements
198

Price and sales

Sales
85 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$5.99 June 2023
Sale every
39d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $5.40 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
23 now
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
32% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

84% start to 23% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

85 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cliff Empire ($17.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Anno 2070™ ($19.99, scores 8).

More about Anno 2205™

Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 602 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 24 percent of the 573 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 18.2 hours. Doing everything runs 61, 3.3 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement23% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.20/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMUbisoft account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds14 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

wish there was more resource balancing and less random trolling about with the battleships
mr.nuggies10Recommendedafter 42hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Clean, futuristic styles and smooth gameplay. Get all the DLCs if possible. It's not 1800 but still a really decent and entertaining game. Especially the ''Evolutionary leap'' was a great challenge. The only downside I experienced was that the servers sometimes go offline and certain features in game do not work until Ubisoft fixes/resets them. It could take anywhere from a couple of hours to several days.
stevansimicRecommendedafter 285hAug 2026Read on Steam
Not loading game due to problems with Uconnect DRM same as all Ubisoft games from Ubisoft in Steam
DarkLandKnightNot recommendedafter 1.1hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce GTX460 or AMD Radeon HD5870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0), 35 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Anno 2205™ scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/375910/anno-2205
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-2
Critics72
Players70
Metacritic critics · 6,384 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperBlue Byte
PublisherUbisoft
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements198