Games like Anno 2205™
If Anno 2205™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 2070™, Anno 1800 and Anno 117: Pax Romana — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and epic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Anno 2205™ is a 2015 strategy and simulation game developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Set in a sci-fi future, players manage a megacorporation expanding across Earth's diverse biomes and the Moon, building cities and industrial complexes while balancing resource management and corporate interests. The game features production-chain optimization, stock-market trading, corporate-share defense mechanics, and multi-region empire building that requires careful logistical planning. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and relaxing, noting that each biome presents unique challenges and aesthetics while the production chains feel satisfying to optimize. The stock-market mechanics add depth to the empire-building experience, blending city-building with corporate fantasy in a long-form strategy experience. The game holds a 69% positive rating from 2,972 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck at a price of $39.99 USD.
About Anno 2205™: 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.
Players who liked Anno 2205™ also play
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Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Top pick for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Second-strongest match for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
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.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Third-strongest match for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
Solargene
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Ranked #5 for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Cliff Empire
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Ranked #6 for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Ranked #8 for Anno 2205™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Reviewers of Anno 2205™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anno 2205™ at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Anno 2205™ on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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More from Blue Byte
Other recommendable Steam games by Blue Byte, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FOR HONOR™
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™.
Fight alone or with friends in For Honor, a third-person hero-based melee fighting game. Enter the chaos of war as a Knight, a Viking, a Samurai, a Wu Lin, or an Outlander. Fight in brutal PvP and team-oriented modes, or play the thrilling story campaign.
Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Dawn of Discovery™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
A unique and award-winning combination of construction, economy, discovery, diplomacy, and combat. Create your own nation with a unique blend of simulation and real-time strategy as you journey across the globe to explore, trade, and learn technologies to expand your empire and to make your own history. Meet the Orient!
Champions of Anteria™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 2205™.
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Champions of Anteria is a tactical Real Time Strategy Game that will allow players to lead and develop their group of cheerful champions into tactical action battles, to save the legendary Kingdom of Anteria.
Anno Online
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Anno 2205™.
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Anno Online is a free-to-play city-builder game that lets you develop big magnificent metropolises in the medieval times.
Might & Magic Heroes Online
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™. Shares Strategy with Anno 2205™.
Explore this vast fantasy world of Ashan - from the glorious temples of Elrath, the Dragon of Light, to the undead lands of Nar-Heresh.
The Settlers Online
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Anno 2205™.
Another title from Blue Byte, the studio behind Anno 2205™. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 2205™.
Build a medieval kingdom in The Settlers Online!
Frequently asked about Anno 2205™
- Does Anno 2205™ run on Steam Deck?
- Anno 2205™ is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Anno 2205™ cost?
- Anno 2205™ is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anno 2205™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anno 2205™ are Anno 2070™, Anno 1800, Anno 117: Pax Romana.
- Who developed Anno 2205™?
- Anno 2205™ was developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft.
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