It’s just too bad that the ultimate culmination of that interdependence is that my greedy investors could get faster quantum computers on which to play a hundred simultaneous games of holographic scrabble, rather than an achievement I can build and see. Late-game products, like personal androids, require materials and manufactured items from all three areas, but give a correspondingly huge boost to happiness.
I hit a point where I felt like I was managing three, interdependent ecosystems that become far more than the sums of their parts by working together. “Though I bemoan the neediness of my workforce, the late-game synergies that can be created by transporting raw materials from the Arctic, finished goods from the temperate zone, and massive amounts of fusion power from my moon base made me almost giddy. It’s almost like getting three, smaller city-builders for the price of one.
The unique challenges of each zone made me think differently, and I enjoyed the variation in aesthetics as I switched between them using the overworld map. In the late game I took my operation to the lunar surface, where I had to erect expensive shield generators over all of my in-use areas to protect my infrastructure from constant showers of space debris. Things got interesting when I expanded to a totally new map in the Arctic, where all dwellings needed to be placed near a heat source to be habitable. I began in the familiar setting of Earth’s shrinking temperate zone, where things are pretty standard for an Anno game: I needed to build houses, clear land for farms, mine minerals, purify water, and generate power. This gives you more to think about than the standard, “Police, Hospitals, Fire, Schools, Done!” routine of a game like SimCity or Cities Skylines, and it’s fun to work out how all the pieces fit together.Ī Tale of Three ColoniesSimultaneously operating colonies in Anno’s three biomes is the coolest element of its simulation.
Low-tier wage slaves who have all their humble needs met (food, water, medicine) can be upgraded to Operators, Executives, and eventually Investors, but while higher rollers provide you with more income, each tier also demands fancier food, gizmos, and other extravagances made possible by the high-tech industries you develop over the course of a campaign. “Employee housing and happiness are the core metrics of success in Anno 2205, but Anno’s long-running formula plays out a little differently than a standard city-builder due to the huge number of consumer goods you will eventually need to manufacture to satisfy your employees.
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