Anno 1800
Fair · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.7h
- Value
- $0.95/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 670 GTX or AMD Radeon R9 285 (2 GB of VRAM, Shader Model 5.0), 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
February 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 35 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $14.99 at 75 percent off still sits 150 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Anno 1404 - History Edition ($4.49, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Tropico 5 ($19.99, scores 54).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 2,465 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.7 hours. Doing everything runs 140, 8.9 times as long.
It came out 7 years ago and 2.8K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
66% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2,784 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A vivid capitalism simulator which illustrates the fact that the resources are limited while the desires are unlimited.
This is another title that sat in my library unplayed for years, which is a shame. It's a fantastic city builder with complex supply chains and just enough military gameplay to be fun without taking aways from the building. There's a lot of meat on this bone for sure.
I love the Anno series since forever, but ubisoft is such a ♥♥♥, i cant recommend a game that launches a different launcher. go bankrupt ubisoft, you bunch of harpies.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Anno 1800 scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/916440/anno-1800The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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