Games like Anno 1800
If Anno 1800 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Tropico 6 and Stronghold: Warlords — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 1800 is a strategy-simulation game released in 2019 by Ubisoft Mainz that tasks players with building cities and managing industrial supply chains during the 19th century. The core mechanics center on population-needs tiering, production-route optimization, supply-chain management, trade-route logistics, and workforce allocation. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, challenging, contemplative, and immersive, while reviewers highlight that production routes become addictive puzzles with tangible, rewarding supply chains. The game is described as challenging with a massive length, and supports a sit-down session shape. Custom map creation and a pause-anytime sandbox mode extend longevity, with adaptive difficulty keeping both casual and hardcore players engaged. It costs $59.99 and runs at a playable level on Steam Deck, earning a 79% positive rating from 11,586 Steam reviews.
About Anno 1800: 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.
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Anno 117: Pax Romana
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Top pick for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Second-strongest match for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Anno 1800.
Third-strongest match for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Anno 1800.
Ranked #4 for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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!
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Ranked #5 for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Ranked #6 for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Ranked #7 for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Anno 1800.
Ranked #8 for Anno 1800 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Anno 1800
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Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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?
Songs of Syx
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Victoria 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares workforce allocation and a contemplative mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Reviewers of Anno 1800 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anno 1800 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
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 ~75% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
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 ~77% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
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.
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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 ~67% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
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 ~83% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Anno 1800 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Ubisoft Mainz
Other recommendable Steam games by Ubisoft Mainz, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Another title from Ubisoft Mainz, the studio behind Anno 1800. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
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.
Anno 1404 - History Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Another title from Ubisoft Mainz, the studio behind Anno 1800. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Anno 1602 History Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Another title from Ubisoft Mainz, the studio behind Anno 1800. Shares Strategy with Anno 1800.
Relive the beginnings of the Anno® series with Anno® 1602 History Edition, updated and optimized for current computers.
Anno 1701 History Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Another title from Ubisoft Mainz, the studio behind Anno 1800. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anno 1800.
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
Anno 1503 History Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anno 1800.
Another title from Ubisoft Mainz, the studio behind Anno 1800. Shares Simulation with Anno 1800.
Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.
Frequently asked about Anno 1800
- Does Anno 1800 run on Steam Deck?
- Anno 1800 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 1800 cost?
- Anno 1800 is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Anno 1800 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Anno 1800 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Anno 1800?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anno 1800 are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Tropico 6, Stronghold: Warlords.
- Who developed Anno 1800?
- Anno 1800 was developed by Ubisoft Mainz and published by Ubisoft.
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