History VideoGame / Anno1800

* AntiPoopSocking: The game will show messages if you're playing deep into the night. "How about a coffee?"

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Electricity can only be produced from oil and gas, both of which have more or less complex supply chains. The very abundant coal, backbone of the 19th and early 20th century power generation, cannot be used for this purpose. To add insult to injury, to produce gas, one has to supply rather impressive amounts of coal to the arctic, and the gas used in early gas power plants was, in fact, ''created from coal''.[[note]]The gas used in Anno is ostensibly Hydrogen, as it's used for airship, which was never used as a fuel gas.[[/note]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Schnapps is a "warmth" need for settlers in the Arctic. This is based on the outdated notion that alcohol makes you warm, whereas it merely makes you ''feel'' warm, while actually losing more heat to the environment. Unlike "happiness" needs, this isn't just based on the subjective feeling of the consumer; it should make the settlers ''more'' prone to contract the Arctic Flu rather than less.

* ScunthorpeProblem: "Essex" is a banned city name. Some of the game's own default ship names, such as "Puff Adder", can actually trigger its profanity filter. All this in a single player game.

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: A bunch of characters are direct references to real 18th and 19th century figures. Most obvious being the Queen as a young Queen Victoria. Admiral Nadasky, who is quite possibly Horatio Nelson in all but name. Jean La Fortune, a CompositeCharacter of several figures in the Haitian Revolution, and John and Jane Faithful; dead ringers to Sir John Franklin and his wife. The former famously disappearing in the search for a passage though the Arctic Circle and the latter who spent the rest of her life looking for him.

* CompanyTown: Your settlements are this. Instead of paying taxes, income comes from your workers buying essentials from you.

* BigFancyHouse:
* You can build your own palace with the ''Seat of Power'' DLC. Like other versions of the player palace in the series, it is egregiously expensive to build and the upper limit of its size is determined by how large your population is. The main building features a colossal dome in the style of the US Capitol, fountains, and entrances crowned by Neoclassical pediments. While its wings have massive glass windows spanning floors with very high ceilings (you can't see inside but windows and doors are easily two stories tall when compared to a regular residence). Even a modest-sized palace can be its own urban district. And while there's big benefits to building it in your capital, there's nothing saying you can't build it in the countryside or on its own island entirely. You can only build one though.

* IdleRich: Two flavours by the late game if you have the right DLCs.

* BigFancyHouse: You can build your own palace with the ''Seat of Power'' DLC. Like other versions of the player palace in the series, it is egregiously expensive to build and the upper limit of its size is determined by how large your population is. The main building features a colossal dome in the style of the US Capitol, fountains, and entrances crowned by Neoclassical pediments. While its wings have massive glass windows spanning floors with very high ceilings (you can't see inside but windows and doors are easily two stories tall when compared to a regular residence). Even a modest-sized palace can be its own urban district. And while there's big benefits to building it in your capital, there's nothing saying you can't build it in the countryside or on its own island entirely.
* BourgeoisBohemian: Artisans. Befitting the real-life Arts and Crafts movement, these foppish middle-class citizens express a lifestyle yearning for traditional revival and counter-cultural living. Mixed with the modernising innovations of the era.
** With ''New World Rising'' come Artistas, a New World counterpart to Artisans. Though much more eccentric, they are still creative types who mix counter-cultural living with the innovations of the era. Though lean into a later technological stage such as asking for scooters or a cinema supplied with celluloid film reels.

* IdleRich: Investors. A mix of BlueBlood and Gilded Age multi-millionaires, Investors don't contribute a workforce like the other social classes in the game. Instead they give influence (a [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas Power-type resource]]) and [[ConspicuousConsumption huge sums of cash for the best things you can offer them.]]
** ZigZagged with Tourists. Like Investors they are incredibly wealthy people who spend their time traveling the newest things the world has to offer, and getting them to your city requires building enormous palatial hotels.and transported around by the new bus service. But they do count as a workforce and a small number are required for certain buildings to function like the restaurant.

''Anno 1800'' is a city-building real-time strategy video game, developed by Blue Byte and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}, and launched on April 16, 2019, in North America. It is the seventh game in the ''Anno'' series, and returns to the use of a historical setting following the last two titles, ''Anno 2070'' and ''Anno 2205'', taking place during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: The death of their father back in the Old World is what triggers the NonEntityGeneral's return there, which in turn kicks off the campaign.

* BoringButPractical: Frigate and its big brother, Ship-of-the-Line are Sail Ships and accessible at Artisan levels, with rather basic materials. Being at lower tech level means they are also easily replaced, not to mention cheaper to maintain. Ten Ship-of-the-Line actually have a good chance to absolutely wreck an opponent's harbor.