Every Anno game, ranked
All 3 Anno games we hold, spanning 2011 to 2019: 3 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 51,270 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Anno 1800 (GamingPickz Score 7.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Anno 2070 (2011) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Anno 2070 gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Anno games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 3 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
3 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 3 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
3 best Anno games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Anno 1800 at a glance Released 2019 Studio Ubisoft Mainz Player sentiment 81% positive of 32,232 Critics 81/100 Price $59.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size 60 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 81% shrinks to 81.0 on 32,232 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 7.4.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 2
Anno 2205
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
6.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceAnno 2205 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Blue Byte Player sentiment 70% positive of 6,335 Critics 72/100 Price $39.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 35 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 70% shrinks to 70.8 on 6,335 reviews, then blends with the 72 critic aggregate, giving 6.4.
Anno 2070 at a glance Released 2011 Studio Blue Byte Player sentiment 60% positive of 12,703 Critics 83/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 60% shrinks to 60.7 on 12,703 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 6.2.
Worth checking first- Critics rate it well above players, 83 against 61. Worth reading why before buying.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Anno game we can score is Anno 1800 at 7.4. The lowest is Anno 2070 at 6.2, a 1.2-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2011 to 2019. The later entries score higher than the earlier ones: the series has been trending up.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Anno 2070 at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Anno 2070, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Anno entries on Steam:
- Playable: Anno 2070, Anno 2205
- Unsupported: Anno 1800
Platforms across the series
Where the 3 Anno games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 3 of 3 |
The Anno series, game by game
Every Anno game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2011
Anno 2070
6.2Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage. (Steam)
Plot
The scenario is set in the year 2070 . Global warming has melted the Arctic ice cap , which has raised the global sea level so that the coasts were flooded. As a result, many old cities have vanished under the ocean, and much of what was once highland has been turned into chains of new islands. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Anno 2070 Critical reception for Anno 2070 has been positive since the game's release, with a majority of critics considering it a big step forward in the Anno series. Criticism of the game is heavily influenced by the requirement to be always online to access all game options. Without being online the player can still access an offline mode, but one can't edit their own profile information, and the player is unable to update their Ark base, place cargo… (Wikipedia)
- 2015
Anno 2205
6.4In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space. (Steam)
Reception
Reception The game received mixed reviews upon launch. While most reviews have praised for its graphics and animations, the disappointments were due to its over-simplistic gameplay compared to its predecessors, lack of randomly generated maps, combat only in side missions and lack of multiplayer, limiting the replay value of the game. ^ "Anno 2205 for PC Reviews" . (Wikipedia)
- 2019
Anno 1800
7.4Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Anno 1800 received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic . As per OpenCritic , 95% of the 63 critic reviews recommend it. The title became the fastest-selling Anno game, selling four times more copies than Anno 2205 achieved during its first week of release. (Wikipedia)
Anno, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Anno vs other series
How Anno stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Anno games are there?
We hold 3 Anno games in the catalogue, released between 2011 and 2019. 3 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Anno game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Anno 1800 rates highest at 7.4. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Anno games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2011 to 2019. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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