The base game and its Venice expansion offer a wide array of curated challenges, ranging from introductory tasks to grueling multi-hour marathons:
Allow players to design, share, and play custom challenge maps (scenarios) with specific win/loss conditions, narratives, and resource constraints — beyond the standard continuous game or campaign missions.
Scenarios often have "Aging" (tax increases) or "Fertility Shifts." Memorize these adjusted ratios: anno 1404 player scenarios
Several advanced scenarios (e.g., "The Island Fortress") — you get one starting ship. This forces:
There are six original scenarios ranging from Easy to Hard. The base game and its Venice expansion offer
If you are looking to challenge yourself before diving into custom content, these official scenarios are highly rated:
If you have grown weary of the standard sessions, if you feel you have built every cathedral and mastered every spice route, look to the player scenarios. You will find that even after fifteen years, the Orient still has secrets left to share. If you are looking to challenge yourself before
: Be the last survivor while reaching massive population milestones (10,000 Noblemen and 10,000 Envoys), building both monuments, and amassing 1 million gold. Venice Expansion Scenarios