To this end, I will be playing the game in its sandbox mode, rather than campaign or any scenarios, and will be playing the game as easy and relaxed as I can. Fortunately, it's a good one, and is widely credited with turning a mediocre base game into one of the golden entries in the Anno franchise. I will also be playing Anno 2070 with the Deep Ocean expansion pack, the game's one big expansion.
2070 is generally regarded by series fans as one of the better entries in the series, and I personally prefer the sci-fi setting over the historical settings of most of the rest of the series. While there's quite a few games in the Anno series, most of them historical in setting, I will be playing Anno 2070. It is my hope to break things down for people who have no idea what Anno is, and walk you through building a beautiful (or at least functional) city. Anno games have a well earned reputation for being beautiful, engrossing, and completely opaque and frustrating to new players. Where the Anno games differ from more traditional city-builders like SimCity and Cities: Skylines is in the Anno series' focus on trade and logistics, rather than on urban planning or development. Anno, sometimes called Anno Domini, is a long-running series of city-builders produced by a German company.