I had Anno 1602 back when I was a kid. At the time I didn’t know English, so I had no idea what I was doing but the game was just so beautiful. It had a comprehensive instructions booklet in my language but the in-game text was only in English. My parents tried to sit with me and help but it was just too much, not to mention their English wasn’t quite good enough either.
A few times over the years I came back to it, a little more capable. It held up.
That game was made with so much soul and passion. If you press the Pause key on your keyboard, it wouldn’t just pause. It would loop a calming full-screen video of a quiet pier with some boats tied to it. Just waiting for you to come back.
I never got to play that game properly after my English was good enough. It’s hard to get it working on modern machines and I guess I didn’t try hard enough. I did play some of the later games, namely Anno 1701. It’s good, but I don’t know if it got the same level of love from its developers. I think very few mainstream games get that treatment these days.
As it turns out, I’m actually not much into city builders, so my opinion on the series isn’t worth much. They are beautiful, that’s for sure.
Honestly I have nothing relevant to say about the game on sale, it just reminded me of Anno 1602 and I had to share.
That was a nice comment, thank you
This was still a nice story to read anyways, thanks
Absolutely excellent game. The satisfaction of watching all the supply chains feeding into your main islands is a real joy.
I’ve heard it can be a bit complex at first for new players, what do you think?
I reckon it certainly can be but if on your first playthrough you turn the difficulty way down and play against the easier AI characters it turns to a pretty slow paced, relaxing city builder than gives you space to learn most of the basic mechanics of the game.
Thanks, I might give it a try
