Anno 1800

You can tell modern Ubisoft developed this game by the way it plays. It wants you to play forever and at best play nothing else. At best you study 3 years in Ubisoft University, then you play Ubisoft Games as a Full-Time Job until you retire, although you obviously don't earn money playing them, you just pay.
I played for 16.8 hours and I probably wasn't even 5% into the game at this point. Maybe I just play it wrong. That was my experience anyway. It is fun, but I don't have the time to play it.

Frustrating Experience with Mandatory Malware-like Launcher!

This game forces you to install Ubisoft Connect, a Trojan-like launcher that fails antivirus checks and constantly crashes, preventing the game from launching. On top of that, the login process takes an absurd 5 minutes—unacceptable for 2025.

If I had known how poorly Ubisoft treats its customers, I would never have bought this product. Avoid unless you enjoy pointless technical headaches.

Overall a great game, but entirely ruined by the awful menu system and selection mechanics

Game looks good, but Ubisoft Connect is nightmare. Everytime you start a game you have to login... or, like now it doesnt start at all and I have to restart my PC.

i wanted to like this game but as a single-player i do NOT recommend. The AI just straight up cheats (they have no economy! in a game about economy and trading....) with zero attempt to hide it, makes single player feel pointless

Remember, every game that Ubisoft requires you to use their online services and have an internet connection to play, runs the risk of being removed and made permanently inaccessible in the future. They don't care about their games or gamers as a whole so why should you care about them and their products?

Avoid even in a deep sale.

You should't need a third party launcher to be able to play games sold on steam. Ubisoft Connect is a cancer.

Once I would love to play this game. I was just trying to bypass next NON STEAM login screen.
After buying this game developer or reseller wants me to use another login... is this a bank volt?

At first glance, a fascinating take on a RTS. Enjoyed playing for a few hours then quickly realized that it is completely unrealistic and a rat-treadmill kind of game. Initially, I noticed the AI go full Godmode, and figured I just sucked at the game, but eventually I realized the AI either has no resource constraints or straight up cheats. Then I struggled to figure out why with tons of people, I wasn't making any money; you are only paid taxes by unemployed citizens, rather than citizens you already have. As soon as a worker finds a job, they stop paying you. Eventually, you just have to have tons of unemployment in order to be in the black, which in turn raises the amount of industry needed. I get it, you need some mechanic to move forward in the game, but this one just made me frustrated. All citizens should pay you, not just unemployed ones.

You have to be loged in Ubisoft to be able to play this game. I cant start it offline and Ubisoft is not able to remember my log in dates. In other words I have to write them down manually everytime.

Too many things to manage, making it unplayable. Steep learning curve, crappy tutorial.

playing this game through the ubisoft connect launcher is like crawling through a mile of barbed wire to get to a steak dinner. it's just not worth it at all

Ubisoft Connect is a disaster. Quite often, with this game, or any other Ubisoft game, I must try to start the game a dozen times, before it finally starts. Even launching the game directly from the Ubisoft Connect app fails. Steam/Valve NEEDS to contract with Ubisoft to remove Ubisoft Connect as a requirement. No other publisher has this problem when launching. I PAID for the game. I expect to PLAY the game.

Amazing game, but because it requires Ubisoft Connect in order to launch a game I own, then I must downvote this game. Fuck ubisoft

This game is like baby's first factory game and city builder combined. it's extremely good for a ubisoft game.

Anno 1800 is timeless and I wholeheartedly support Ubisoft behind this franchise.

The game is dynamic, the characters are very individual and have their own personalities and strategies. Each play through is unique, enjoyable, and difficulty can be tailored to your play style.

This is a game you can easily get addicted to and spend 4-8 hours at a time enjoying.

Ubisoft has also incorporated a wonderful mod-friendly browser into the base game! You literally click a few buttons to install free mods to the game. Its wonderful! No micro-transactions! The mods mostly incorporate either new features or entirely new building skins. What a wonderful community for people to develop and share their creative ideas!

I would really like to see Ubisoft incorporate (Optional) donation transactions into the mod download process. I would love to give $2 -$10 for a mod creator that has obviously put countless hours and creativity into their work. The mod creators deserve a user friendly method for donation, and I imagine this would greatly increase the followers and strength of the Anno 1800 community.

Your help request: Refund Request - The game doesn't start when I try to launch it

I can't get Ubisoft Connect and Steam to work together and thus the game won't open from Steam. I bought the Steam version because I hate Ubisoft Connect hoping to get around it, but it's pointless because I can't play it on Steam without connecting to Ubisoft. But even knowing that now, it still won't work for some reason. Please just refund me.

Doesn't work without an active internet connection

You can't change binding for moving camera freely which by default is mouse scroll wheel

Might be the best game I ever played, but that is just current high. Definitely the best I have played in the last 5 years. So much content atm and so much fun!

DO NOT BUY - UBISOFT is a garbage company, It was nothing but headache attempting to play this. If you like the game buy if from UBISOFT's own launcher.

this game is so bloody good its like tropico, kingdoms reborn, and economics all in one. you can easily kill like 6 hours in one sitting and the game even acknowledges this, saying things like "you've played for 6 hours straight, you should go eat some food" which is a pretty neat touch. absolutely worth it on discount (i mean why would you not buy a game going for $8 if its normally priced $90??)

edit: just found out theres a 10 hour straight one "time flies, (something about suggesting to take a nap), there is no time based achievement here"

Difficult, but fun. Combining many themes of the Victorian era with Steampunk across a number of locales from the Old World to the New (Americas / Africa).

have to be online to enter the game. The game can be played offline. What else is not valid as promised in the game?

Ubisoft installing bloatware is a pain in the ass

The game doesnt seem to have a CD key, not in the normal way steam gives it to you anyways. I fixed it asking for one by installing the game once, setting up the their annoying launcher to stay signed in, uninstall, and then reinstall. It doesnt ask for CD key this time around and the game launches.

Just need to open up task manager after you close the game to force close Ubisoft connect, and set its launcher settings to not open on startup. Thanks for making your 60$ game a hassle for no benefit to the consumer. :)

If you stay away from these games because of their addictive prowess you have found another one. Great game though.

wont let you play unless you sign up with ubisoft. Fuck ubisoft

Ubisoft Connect ruins an otherwise great game. Seriously you think you will be immune from their insane buggy linking with steam you won't. Buy it on ubisoft's service or be prepared to be locked out of your game.

Update: Steam support is great they refunded the DLC that was causing ubisoft's service to be unable to launch.

I would still recommend just buying it from ubisoft directly to avoid these headaches.

Not a strategy player really at all, already sunk 11 hours in and just got the game. For $6? Buy.

absolute garbage. i tried and tried and tried read guides watched youtube videos like holy f sh man, i shouldnt have to study at a university to play a stupid game on the easiest difficulty. trash tutorial, they "guide" you and dont really tell you jack sh. Thank god i go this on sale because if i paid full price for this trash id actually be super p'off. this piece of garbage will eat up HOURS of your time to get f no where.

ubisoft sucks makes it so difficult for you to make an account. keeps locking me out when trying. trash waste of my money!!!

Perfect, there is always something to do, you think there is a moment to catch up, then boom you are in red, you check what is wrong, half your factories are shuting down cause of lack of workforce. Why cause the supply chain for sausages was upgraded far before mass settling of workers took place, they ate through all reserves and now is time to shut down some less important factories. You selve the problems, then you lack another thing cause some pirates destroyed your trade ship. Then suddenly character declares war on you, all of this while having to constantly upgrade your island and trying to not make it ugly af. Balancing all your supply chains, constant development rising need of citizens, diplomacy, internal urge to just move buildings to look nice, having happy population and not being broke, commanding your fleet and missions and expeditions. 10/10

An extremely well made city builder/naval combat game. The only issue with it is Ubisoft.

Just started playing. Game is beautiful, gameplay is fun, controls are not really intuitive imo. All of that would be fine, but the ubi launcher is aweful.

BE AWARE IF GETTING THIS IN THE SALE - you need an ubisoft account or you can't play it (yes i know it says it on the store page but I wasn't paying attention to that cause it was 90% off)

nah, refunding

Uninstalled after spending 15 minutes fighting the Ubisoft launcher, only to start the first mission and run out of planks before building a warehouse which meant I could not harvest more planks to build said warehouse. Stupid mechanics.

Good game, however the ubisoft connect requirement sucks.. If i buy a game on steam, I dont want yet another shitty launcher to play it..

Very fun island builder and commercial sim, once you get the hang of it it's quite addicting. very glad to get it on a sale though sheesh

Terrible Ubisoft DRM that makes the game literally unplayable after the first launch... Don't waste your money even on a heavy discount!

- Massive size on disk
- Requires Ubisoft launcher from hell
- Requires internet connection for singleplayer

Conclusion: Ubisoft is sadistic and their behaviour should not be enabled. I regret buying it.

Honestly, the game with all it's additions is great.

Sure, people complain about the Ubisoft-integration but aside from logging in ONCE, it's just not a problem:
It lets you play together with people from other platforms, but the "invite friends" button still defaults to steam friends.
It also doesn't require any additional launchers or install any app that is still running after the game is closed, so to me the anti-Ubi hysteria is just massively overblown.

To be fair: I'd prefer it if all additional account features weren't mandatory and always opt-in.
However, it hasn't once hindered my enjoyment of the game, or installed any blatware, so I'm personally fine with how it is.

I just bought this game but once I go to play it wants me to set up an account with Ubisoft, so I did. It still sill not let me in!!! What's going on?

Feels very repetitive and the UI is a bit of a nightmare - no scrolling with arrow keys when paused, have to do it by putting the mouse to the edge of the screen... (come on that's a UI basic level fail!) No ability to enter city management screens when paused - have to do it with the game running in the background - fair enough for multiplayer mode, but if in single-player mode why does the game need to keep running - can't even highlight individual buildings to gain basic info...? Graphically looks okay, but not 1st in class...

The game is great. the UPLAY, terrible. It is a stark reminder why you should avoid ubisoft games on pc.

The game is good, but it's Ubisoft. You have to connect to Ubisoft connect, which doesn't work half the time. I'd love to keep playing right now, but it says update failed. If it doesn't say update failed, it says you don't have internet even if you have. I buy on Steam to avoid whatever that dogshit company throws at me, and they still screw it up. F Ubisoft and everything they stand for

You cannot play the game without creating a Ubisoft account and using their shitty launcher + internet connection to run it every time = auto dislike

Might be a good game but never got to play it since UBISOFT controller would not let me create or log into the account.
worst experience I have had, help page and support unhelpful
DO NOT RECOMMEND unless ubi soft fixes their system

Sure it's fun, when it works. But I can't recommend a game that refuses to start 75% of the time. Ubisoft Connect and constant internet connection required, most of the time fails to authenticate and shuts down. Spend your money elsewhere.

Terrible business practice by Ubisoft. I bought this game and i am having to log into Ubisoft Connect, which doenst send verification mails/ recovery mails... (not even to spam box) I bought the game with my money, so i should be able to play it whenever i like. Now i have to spend my time writing negative reviews on steam and trying to get a hold of a human at Ubisoft who can disable my 2 step verification, which was another thing forced upon me by this money grabbing, piece of dookie company.

I played a fair bit of Anno 1800 on the PS5, so i know that it is good. The publisher is the problem.

Literally unplayable, only need the CD key for this game to play it because it wants to launch on Ubisoft connect, but because I once tried a freeplay of it years ago it won't give me a new CDkey. Attempts to resolve this through steam support go nowhere. They shouldn't be selling a product they're incapable of actually providing.