Anno Series

Anno, early on also known as A.D., is a real-time strategy, economic simulation video game series, conceived in 1998 by Max Design. The series focuses on players establishing colonies on a series of small islands, conducting an exploration of the region, diplomacy, and trade with other civilizations and traders while managing resources and engaging in combat both on land and sea. Most games in the series take place during Renaissance and Empire-building historical periods of Earth’s history, with cultures, architecture, and customs based upon real-life elements from these periods, though in-game civilizations tend to be neutral from exact nations.

Each game in the series is mainly a stand-alone title, featuring the same level of reoccurring gameplay mechanics, though each installment amends existing gameplay mechanics and adds new features, with expansion packs adding further content. Initial games mainly focused on two modes of gameplay, with players able to operate in single-player or multiplayer over LAN or online connections, while later titles added a campaign mode of several missions, each featuring their own unique storyline – plots usually focus on players becoming involved in a major incident while beginning life as the ruler of a small island.

While primarily developed for PC, the series has also included a variety of spin-off titles mainly for handheld consoles, which in turn feature more simplified game mechanics to those of the main series. Each title over the series’ history has featured a variety of different developers and publishers, with the most recent entries being currently developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Most entries in the series have received average reviews from critics. The first title, Anno 1602, was Germany’s best-selling computer game of all time as of December 2002, with sales of 2.5 million copies worldwide and 1.7 million in the German market. Its sequel broke its sales-speed record, becoming Germany’s fastest full-price computer game to reach 500,000 domestic sales. It ultimately sold over one million units in German-speaking countries, and, when combined with its predecessor, reached 4.5 million sales worldwide by October 2006.

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Action RPG

Action-Adventure

Adventure

Arcade

Arena Shooter

Artillery

Auto Battler (Auto Chess)

Battle Royale

Beat 'em up (Brawler)

Biological

Boat and Naval

Breakout Clone

Business Simulation

Casual

Cinematic platformer

City-Building

Colony Management

Combat

Comical (Single Screen)

Competitive

Construction and Management Simulation

Digital Pets

Dungeon Crawl

Endless Runner

Escape the Room

Exploration

Extraction Shooter

Factory Simulation

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Fighting

First-person dungeon crawl

First-Person Party-Based RPG (Dungeon RPG- DRPG)

First-Person Shooter (FPS)

Flight

Government Simulation

Grand Strategy Wargame

Graphic Adventure

Hack and Slash (Hack and Slay)- H&S

Hero Shooter

Hidden Object

Hybrid Adventure

Interactive Film

Isometric Dungeon Crawler

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Japanese RPG (JRPG)

Kart Racing

Life Simulation

Light Gun

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Looter Shooter

Management

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Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter (MMOFPS)

massively multiplayer online racing (MMOR)

Massively Multiplayer Online Real-Time Strategy (MMORTS)

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing (MMORPG)

Massively multiplayer online Sport (MMOSG)

Massively Multiplayer Online Turn-Based Strategy (MMOTBS)

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Monster Tamer

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA)

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Rail Shooter

Real-Time 3D Adventure

Real-Time Strategy (RTS)

Real-Time Tactics (RTT)

Reveal The Picture

Rhythm

Roguelikes

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Role-Playing Shooter

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Sports Game

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Turn-Based Strategy (TBS)

Turn-Based Tactics (TBT)

Vehicle Simulation

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Walking Simulator

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Real-Time Strategy (RTS)

Anno 117

Anno 117, also known as Anno 117: Pax Romana, is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ubisoft Mainz and published by Ubisoft. Set during the Pax Romana, a period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire, it is the eighth installment in the Anno series and the earliest historical setting in the franchise to date. Players of the city-building game assume the role of a Roman governor and can choose a starting province, ruling either the Roman Empire in Latium or the Celtic kingdom in Albion. In the latter, players may spread Roman or Celtic cultural influence or a combination of both.

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Real-Time Strategy (RTS)

Anno 1800

Anno 1800 is a city-building real-time strategy video game, developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft, and launched on April 16, 2019. It is the seventh game in the Anno series, and returns to the use of a historical setting, following the previous futuristic titles Anno 2070 and Anno 2205, taking place during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. Following the previous installment, the game returns to the series’ traditional city-building and ocean combat mechanics, but introduces new aspects of gameplay, such as tourism, blueprinting, and the effects of industrialisation influences on island inhabitants.

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Anno 2205

Anno 2205 is a city-building and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Anno 2205 is the sixth game of the Anno series, and was released worldwide on 3 November 2015. As with Anno 2070, the game is set in the future, with players having the opportunity to set up colonies on the Moon. It received mixed reviews on launch.

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Anno 2070

Anno 2070 is a city-building and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements. It is the 5th game of the Anno series. It was released on 17 November 2011, and was co-developed by the German studios Related Designs and Blue Byte, and published by Ubisoft. Anno 2070 required Uplay to operate as an always online DRM System, later removed for receiving severe criticism from players.

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Anno 1404

Anno 1404, known as Dawn of Discovery in North America, is a city-building and economic simulation game with real-time strategy elements, part of the Anno series. Released in 2009, it was developed by Related Designs, produced by Blue Byte, and published by Ubisoft. Anno 1404 is the sequel to Anno 1701 and is followed by the futuristic sequel Anno 2070. Though the game centers on a series of fictional events, the overall concept of the storyline is based upon real life aspects of medieval and renaissance history such as the Crusades, advancements in gothic architecture, construction of cathedrals, and hanseatic trade involving the rise of patrician merchants and early forms of capitalism.

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Anno 1701

Anno 1701, also marketed as 1701 A.D., is a real-time strategy and city building video game, part of the Anno series. It is developed by Related Designs and published by Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software. It revolves around building and maintaining an 18th-century colony in the “New World”. With a budget of €10 million, it was the most expensive German game ever produced by 2006.

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Anno 1503

Anno 1503: The New World (released as 1503 A.D.: The New World in North America and simply Anno 1503 in Austria and Germany) is a 2002 construction and management simulation video game developed by Austrian developer Max Design and published by Sunflowers Interactive. Part of the Anno series, it is a direct sequel to Anno 1602, the most commercially successful German video game ever by 2002. Anno 1503 is set in the early modern period and revolves around building and maintaining a 16th-century colony in the New World.

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Anno 1602

Anno 1602: Creation of a New World, entitled 1602 A.D. in North America, is a 1998 construction and management video game developed by Max Design and published by Sunflowers Interactive. Set in the early modern period, it requires the player to build colonies on islands of various sizes in an archipelago as they manage resources, exploration, diplomacy and trade. The game design is noteworthy for its attempt to implement a ‘progressive’ artificial intelligence, meaning that the pace of the game changes in response to how quickly players act.

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