Summary
Ubisoft’sAnno 1800is certainly not short on content, but with such a lengthy catalog of DLC available, it can be difficult for newer players to know which to buy and which to pick up during a sale. Since the game’s original release back in 2019, there have been a total of four Season Passes and 30 individual DLC items, with lots of options for players to tailor the experienceto their own personal preferences. There are two main types of DLC available for players inAnno 1800: Cosmetic DLC and Gameplay DLC, as well as a variety of packs and Season Passes which serve as small collections of individual DLC items.
Cosmetic DLC have very little, if any, effect on gameplay, but can greatly enhance the variation and beautification of player settlements. Gameplay DLC introduces new mechanics, industries, and entirely new maps to the game. Given that Gameplay DLC items generally consist ofmore interactive content, they often come at a higher price point than Cosmetic DLC items. Players can buy different versions of the game with Season Passes included, though it is only the “Definitive Annoversary” edition that includes all DLC items in one.
Updated on June 26, 2025, by Andrew McLarney:Despite many believing that development had ceased on Anno 1800 following its 5-year anniversary, several cosmetic packs have been released since then. Most recently, the Eldrich and Steampunk packs offer players more of a surreal and fantastical style than previous packs. While this is not to every player’s tastes, it does offer another layer of variability and aesthetic difference to settlements, and it shows that the developers have certainly not abandoned the title completely just yet.
Vehicle Liveries Pack
Cosmetic Pack - A Limited Pack Offering Skins For Airships And Trains
The Vehicle Liveries Pack adds a number of cosmetic skins that players can apply to various ships and trains. In addition to this, players who own “The Passage” DLC will gain a number of unique airship liveries. This pack is really only worth picking up in a bundle for players who particularly like the chosen designs, otherwise it adds little to the game, even aesthetically.
City Lights Pack
Cosmetic Pack - Adds Various New Ornaments Focussed On Street Lighting
The City Lights Pack introduces 21 new ornaments, including a variety of decorative streetlamps, as well as variations for vendor stalls and two new children’s playground designs. This mod can reallybring a city to lifeat night, but aside from this, it offers little else in terms of content.
Industrial Zone Pack
Cosmetic Pack - Adds Limited Decorative Elements To Simulate Construction Work
The Industrial Zone Pack adds several decorative ornaments that can improve the look of industrial districts in a city. These include platforms, traffic signs, a coal tower, and a freight yard. Players can also create realistic-looking construction sites with cranes, fences, and scaffolding.
Cosmetic Pack - Adds Some Decorative Chinese Themed Gardens And Ornaments
The Chinese-inspired Dragon Garden Pack introduces a number of unique Chinese ornaments, including dragon gardens and lantern-draped paifang gates. Players can effectively create their own mini Chinatown in their chosen cities, or can simply use the ornaments seasonally to celebrate Lunar New Year.
Cosmetic Pack - Adds Christmas-Themed Ornaments With Slightly More Interaction
The Holiday Pack adds festive Christmas cosmetic items for player cities. These items include a Carousel, Christmas Trees, Christmas Market Stalls, and a number of other street decorations. While most players would not consider this essential by any means, the pack can add some seasonal variety and increased immersion when playing in Old World settlements.
Cosmetic Pack - Adds A Fairground And Circus Items To Liven Up A City
The Amusements Pack adds a number of modernizing ornaments that can greatly change the look and atmosphere of a city. In addition to providing somevariety to the skyline, citizens will also gain happiness by visiting these attractions.
Cosmetic Pack - Adds Vibrant Festival Items To Bring New World Settlements To Life
The Fiesta Pack introduces a variety of Latin-themed festive ornaments for New World settlements. As well as a range of fountains and statues, players can also line their city streets with cacti and palm trees, while a variety of new stalls bring new festive foods for citizens to enjoy.
National Park Pack
Cosmetic Pack - Allows Players To Create And Explore Nature Reserves
The National Park Pack allows players to create custom national parks for their citizens to enjoy. This includes new environmental tools for landscaping, as well as a range of new ornaments and structures, such as watchtowers, bridges, and camping areas.
Eldritch Pack
Cosmetic Pack - Gothic And Horror Themed Unique Designs To Differentiate Settlements
The Eldritch Pack introduces an element of gothic horror to the game, which can add both variety and immersion to the game. A number of new decorative elements, including gargoyles and automatons, are also included forincreased Transylvanian terror.
Steampunk Pack
Cosmetic Pack - Unique Item Pack With A Surreal Retro-Futuristic Theme
The newly added Steampunk Pack is the most surreal and fantastical cosmetic pack released to date. Providing players with a series of retrofuturistic steampunk skins, players can really differentiate their settlements and bring a sense of progression to their settlements in a way that no other pack is able to. The pack also comes with several brand new ornaments including an Aquarium, Steam O’Clock and Celestial Fountain.
