While building and resource management is important, these aren’t the only core components in Anno games. With that said, one of my favorite changes that 2205 introduced is the change around how combat plays out. The loop of the game repeats this cycle of building more homes to fund your other structures so that you can expand and build even more. By fulfilling needs, more people will move into your cities and provide you with increased income.

Go into the red, and you can quickly find yourself with a negative balance. Everything you build with exception to homes will drain your credits per minute.

The biggest factor in how easily you can build is the number of credits you earn per minute. Each biome has various ways of creating power, and the final biome (the moon) is where you’ll be able to generate unlimited energy and provide it to any biomes that need it. Power will be your nemesis until the very end of the campaign when you solve the energy crisis. If you run out of logistics, all shipping of goods in the biome stops. In 2205, logistics are an abstracted stat handled by warehouses. In previous games, logistics were defined by where you played buildings so that resources and goods were properly and quickly moved from one place to another. Constructing factories will require credits (the game’s currency), workers, power, and “logistics”. For example, in the arctic, there are restrictions around where homes can be built and the moon ends up being a colossal drain on resources.Įnsuring that everything remains functional - and that you don’t run out of money - is core to the gameplay of Anno 2205.Īnno games have always represented a balancing act between building what you need while also keeping your profits in the black. Also, the biomes each throw up their own limitations and constraints. Your cities are full of people from different classes who, in turn, require different goods. Rather, you’ll need to ensure said resource can get to a factory to refine it into a product, and then manages to reach its ultimate destination for consumption. Logistics has always been a franchise staple, although it’s not just about gathering a particular resource. 2205 continues the franchise trend of offering different biomes complete with their own resources, rules, and required goods. Streamlining notwithstanding, your chief responsibility is still to build cities, create goods, and ensure that people get what they need. No big deal, right? This might sound stressful - perhaps impossible - but thankfully, Anno 2205 streamlines much of the difficulty present in the previous games (and some of the depth along with it, which I’ll discuss shortly). You are the CEO of a corporation that has been brought into assist with rebuilding the world by creating limitless free energy for the masses. Anno 2205 takes place in the distant future, at the point where humanity has survived a world-ending disaster.

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