Ubisoft has announced that Anno 1800, the latest installment from the successful city-building franchise, is the fastest-selling Anno game to date. In addition, Ubisoft revealed that, during its first week of launch, Anno 1800 sold four times more than the previous title Anno 2205 in its first week. Anno 1800 launched worldwide on April 16th on Windows PC.
Rich with technological innovations, conspiracies, and constantly fluctuating allegiances, the 19th century is the perfect setting for classic Anno gameplay. Developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte, Anno 1800 provides players with countless opportunities to prove their skills as a ruler. Players can create huge metropolises, plan efficient logistics networks, settle on an exotic new continent, send out global expeditions, and dominate their opponents by diplomacy, trade, or warfare.
Since the game was released on April 16th, players haven’t stopped working on building their industrial empire,as these impressive figures show:
- Players have reached almost 7 billion citizens across their islands, more than three times the global population back in 1899 ;
- Players have built over 10 million ships ;
- Players have built over 1 billion grain fields ;
- Over 3 million islands have been settled on.
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