Playable free without paying
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“There is no need whatsoever for the microtransactions unless you lack patience.”
Steam review · 153.9 h played ↗
Anno Online
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 43%Mixed · 43%Blue Byte2015City Builder · Strategy · Simulation
The verdict
A slow, relaxing free-to-play Anno-style city builder, now shut down and unplayable. Skip it unless you want to read about it.
Great for
Nobody today; it once suited relaxed, short daily city-building sessions
Main risk
The game no longer works: servers are shut down and Flash is gone
What players love
Friendly, helpful community
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“This game has the most helpful community I've ever seen in online game so far.”
Steam review · 662 h played ↗
Relaxing, slow-paced city building
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“it is relaxing and calm. you dont get pounded into the ground by someone, just build and watching my city grow.”
Steam review · 335.7 h played ↗
Good music and art style
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“awesome soundtrack and nice graphics”
Steam review · 16.9 h played ↗
Good for short daily sessions
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Open this up during lunch break to build a few buildings, go back to work.”
Steam review · 31.2 h played ↗
Faithful Anno-style economy planning
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“It does matter where you put things, so planning ahead while building your city is important.”
Steam review · 113 h played ↗
What players complain about
Flash/Chrome plugin error blocks launch
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“I need to install Google Chrome -or- Flash player. -checks through files and finds that they are both installed- Yup.... Fail.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Pay-to-speed-up microtransactions and waiting
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“This is a game where you pay to speed up building, only to pay to speed up building”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
Not a real Anno; mobile-style game
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“It's a Steam version of a free to play game you'd see on iOS.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Servers shut down, game unplayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“On 31.1.2018 Ubisoft is shutting the game down. Don't bother to start playing.”
Steam review · 17 h played ↗
Poor customer support and locked accounts
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“Your zone was locked”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗
Can't link existing account
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 negative reviews
“this game makes a separate account,and you are unable to link your normall account.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown200 MB
Minimum
OSWindows XP SP3
Processor2 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsHardware Accelerated Graphics
Storage200 MB available space
Recommended
OSWindows XP SP3
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsHardware Accelerated Graphics with 1 GB RAM
Storage200 MB available space
OSWindows XP SP3
Processor2 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsHardware Accelerated Graphics
Storage200 MB available space
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