Starting with a trade port and a small plot of land, you’ll attract farmers and workers to build your city from a farming village into a modern manufacturing powerhouse. From there, you’ll make your mark on the world with a network of trade routes, diplomatic agreements, and expeditions around the globe. Like other Anno games, this one is focused on production and industry. Instead of engaging in war or appeasing your citizens, Anno 1800 mainly tasks you with building and maintaining supply chains and then exploiting those supply chains to generate as much revenue as possible through trade. You’ll need to fight from time to time, but only to defend your industry. We chose Anno 1800 not only because it’s the most recent but also because the setting captures the spirit of the gameplay. If you’re looking for a different setting, Anno 1404 throws you into the age of colonization, and Anno 2070 looks forward to near-future industry.įrostpunk is a city builder under the worst possible circumstances. You are the leader of a surviving colony after the fallout of a volcanic winter. Eruptions and catastrophic weather have wiped out most of the world’s population, and it’s your job to build a city around a steam-powered engine stuck in the center of a frozen wasteland.įrostpunk puts on the pressure early and never lets up. You’ll have to send citizens out to gather materials, knowing some of them won’t make it back, enact laws to extract 24-hour labor, and choose who gets rations and medical treatment first (if at all).

Frostpunk is as grim as video games come, but it still provides a riveting experience where building your city feels like just a means to an end.Įager to settle the Red Planet? Surviving Mars is for you. It’s a traditional city builder where you need to build infrastructure, tend to the needs of your citizens, and grow your industry, but instead of dealing in electricity and housing, Surviving Mars deals in oxygen and space domes.

It’s one thing to attract people to your colony on Mars. Surviving Mars comes from Paradox Interactive, the same publisher behind Cities: Skylines. That means a lot of DLC.

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