The Anno series will always be my love. I respect the developers’ hard work, and I like it so much that I pre-ordered two copies of the Anno 117 Gold Edition without hesitation the moment it was available. But because of some things Ubisoft has done, and considering the current level of completion of 117, since there is no mixed rating option, I can only leave a negative review.



What makes me the angriest is that Ubisoft turned a so-called purchase into a one-time rental by revoking licenses and shutting the game down: I clearly paid real money on Steam, yet at the critical moment I realized I didn’t truly own the game at all—I only had a ticket that could be taken back at any time. For someone like me who has spent over a thousand hours in Anno 1800 and Anno 117, this is not just as simple as servers shutting down. It’s basically turning the act of buying a game into empty words: I already paid the money, but with a single “service terminated” from Ubisoft, I can’t play anything, and I have nothing left.

What hurts me the most isn’t simply losing one purchase channel, but this forced platform split that completely shatters my sense of belonging on Steam. I’ve always loved Steam’s community atmosphere—one-click screenshot uploads, showcases, guides and reviews, and interacting with each other. For me and many players, the process of playing games is inherently tied to the Steam community. But with Anno 1800 where the base game is on Steam while later DLC and content are pushed to be bought on other platforms, it basically forces me and other players to keep cutting back and forth between different platforms. In other words, I paid money on Steam, yet I can’t get all the content in the same ecosystem the way a normal Steam game works.

Based on what I said above, these black history incidents are not just a small convenience issue for someone like me who treats Steam as a game library and a social space. Ubisoft, you! You directly push the cost of platform choices onto players, weakening the purchasing experience, community interaction, and the sense of ownership all at once.


The current game feels more like an Early Access game, because it abruptly ends after I only played two chapters, and my relationship with the NPC rivals in the game doesn’t have a complete description. At this price, it doesn’t match a full release at all.

This is the saddest part for me. As one of the first players to pre-order your game, I can understand discounting the base game, because I have played it. But why would you discount content that hasn’t even been released yet? It’s like Back 4 Blood back then. Many players bought the Ultimate Edition, but even when the Ultimate Edition was 50% off, the DLCs included in the Ultimate Edition still weren’t released. Then why didn’t I just buy the Standard Edition from the start? Don’t talk to me about how Standard Edition + a separate Year Pass costs more than the Gold Edition. Your marketing has problems, and you should seriously reflect on it. Don’t make pre-order players pay the price. If you keep doing this, it will only make the players who are truly willing to spend money never buy any of your versions again.

If Ubisoft’s recommended enthusiast specs are an RTX 4080 and an i7-13700K with 32GB RAM, then performance shouldn’t drop below 30 FPS, right? But once I reached the mid-to-late game, the game started stuttering from time to time. Especially when I switch from Albion to Latium, sometimes it drops to under 10 FPS and I can’t even move. Don’t tell me my specs aren’t good enough.

I buy games on Steam for the Steam experience and ecosystem, not to go through Ubisoft Connect again every time I launch the game. Can you remove this as soon as possible, or at least weaken it so it doesn’t affect the experience?


I’m a building enthusiast. You can add more free decorations for all players, and then sell paid decorative DLC on top of that.

One of my biggest headaches in 1800 was that decorative roads could not function like normal roads. You responded to players saying it was due to technical reasons. But the problem is, mods have long been able to make decorative roads have normal road functionality, so I don’t believe it’s technically impossible—I believe you just don’t take it seriously enough.

Remove or weaken Ubisoft Connect. And don’t let it happen that you update DLC for one year and then withdraw from the Steam ecosystem again.

117’s UI and multiplayer marker experience are both regressing. I play co-op building, and the markers have no sound prompts and weak feedback, so communication efficiency drops straight down.

How did such a mature mod browser in 1800 become so difficult in 117?

Circle back in 5 years when it's a complete game and buy it for cheap in a bundle gg

Gran recomendación, lo estoy disfrutando muchísimo, además cuenta con una gran optimización, jugando con 8gb y un gtx 1050 funciona de maravilla con escalado Xees.

De mis sagas favoritas.