Anno 1800 is about the age of industrialization.
Anno 1800 is about the age of industrialization.
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Anno 1800 hands-on — being a capitalist in the age of industrialization

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s time to test just how good of a capitalist you can be with Anno 1800, the new 19th-century city-building game from Ubisoft that debuts in February 2019 on the PC.

Anno 1800 is the seventh game in franchise, and this time developer Ubisoft Blue Byte is focusing on the Age of Industrialization. That means you get to start building a small village on an island and try to grow it into a bustling industrial metropolis. In this rags to riches story, you start with nothing but a handful of resources, a sailing ship, and an empty island. I got an early look of this game at a Ubisoft pre-Gamescom event in San Francisco.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.