Welcome to the first #SteamSpotlight feature of 2024! Happy New Year, everyone!
New year, new feature, but if this is the first time you're encountering #SteamSpotlight, no problemo! We'll explain just what exactly it is for you.
#SteamSpotlight is a feature series that shines the spotlight on the the thousands of games available on Steam! And for the first feature of 2024, we will go back in time to the Industrial Revolution.
If you've ever wondered how it's like to build and grow a city during one of the most innovative periods in history, keep reading because there is a game that will let you experience just that.
#SteamSpotlight Feature: Anno 1800
Released on April 17, 2019, Anno 1800 is developed and published by Ubisoft. It is a city-building game that puts you right smack in the middle of the Industrial Revolution. Your goal, essentially, is to build an empire in South America.
How you decide to build the city affects how it ends up to be. So it's important to figure out if you want to be more of an innovator or an exploiter. You'll also have to decide if you want to be a conqueror or liberator.
As the one who is taking the lead, you get to send out expenditions to different parts of the globe, put up huge metropolises, and dominate via trade, diplomacy, or even warfare.
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The Importance of Trading
As you have probably learned in your history classes, trading is crucial to the success of the Industrial Revolution. In order to fill the needs of the citizens, you will need to establish trading routes. You also must ensure that these trading routes become profitable networks for you.
You will also need to deal with other rulers you will encounter in the world as well as establish production chains.
Here is the launch trailer for Anno 1800 to give you a better idea of what to expect.
Steam Reviews for Anno 1800
Anno 1800 has more than 14,000 reviews on Steam as of press time. These reviews are generally described as "Very Positive" by the platform.
"Anno 1800 is so beautiful, it sets the standard for beautiful art direction and graphics in its genre," user Flavius Claudius Julianus says in a Steam review. "The pinnacle of economy management/trading/colony building games."
"Anno 1800 is like a time-traveling city-building adventure that totally blew me away," Contagion85 says in a separate Steam review. "The graphics are insane - I felt like I was living in the industrial age with all the hustle and bustle."
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