Being the failure I am, I just stuck to the initial island. Your choice is to either establish on the island given to you or explore and find a better one hopefully. You start with a dock and a Capital ship, which has enough resources to occupy one additional island. You start on a random island, each island has a unique fertility setting that shows you what grows there, and what resources are available. To begin your sandbox mode you have to choose a difficulty, or set up a custom difficulty, I chose normal because reasons.
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It should be noted, however, that once you finish the full campaign missions the game automatically enters sandbox mode, which is awesome. You have 3 modes to play, Campaign, Sandbox, and Multiplayer, for the purposes of this review I stuck with Sandbox mode. Like I said I’m not great at these kinds of games, part of what makes them fun is my failure. I don’t like being on rails, being forced to build certain things at certain times, and simply being limited. What I like about Anno 1800 is that it doesn’t hold your hands. It’s been staring me in the face on Uplay for weeks now, but I decided I’d hold off on beta testing it. So when I saw an opportunity to look at Anno 1800 I had to jump at it. To this day Anno is at the top of the genre in my opinion, simply because of its innovation on graphics and unique gameplay. While it’s not the grandfather of the genre, that title goes to SimCity, it’s the game that kicked off the extremely in-depth simulated economy, along with having some great graphics. Have you heard of Anno? I bet you have, it’s one of the 3 main staples of the city building genre. Again, I suck at these games, but that’s okay! I haven’t been huge into the city builder genre lately, the last two I’ve played most recently was Banished and Dawn of Man, and while they held my attention for 50~ hours a piece, they were a far cry from the old glory days. That failure is what drove the fun factor for me, ever promising not to make the same mistakes I made last game, always breaking that promise. In reality I just really sucked, and all of my cities failed. Spending hundreds of hours on each game attempting to build the greatest city ever imagined. I have fond memories growing up playing City Builders such as the Caesar series, IV being my favorite, Sim City, and an another all-time favorite series, Pharaoh.