Face a mob for making too few bowler hats in this PS5 and Xbox Series X game

techradar.com:

Of all my worries for 2023, being torn apart by a violent mob, angry that they didn’t have ready access to soap, wasn’t the top of my list. Then Ubisoft went and announced it's bringing the strategy game Anno 1800 to consoles, letting you take control of a burgeoning empire, build supply chains and feed the growth of your population with luxury goods. Of course, fail to keep up with their demands, and your citizens will get awfully revolution-y.

Released on PC in 2019, Anno 1800 is a wonderful strategy game that focuses on the building side of imperialism, rather than the more violent, colonial aspects. You start the game as the leader of a small island, rich in resources but lacking in infrastructure. You build houses, farms, and markets, attracting new citizens to set up shop and work to grow your town.

All your people have needs, which only become more complex as you advance up the technology tree. At first, you’ll be able to provide for them with what you can find on your island – turning your wheat into bread, your clay into bricks. Soon, though, you’ll need to produce goods that require resources you can’t source locally. You must create trade networks with other islands, bringing in animal fat to make soap or cotton for bowler hats. 

Nail the trade network and manufacturing, and your people will advance through the industrial revolution. Mess it up, however, and your people will become surly, gathering on street corners to mutter about their lack of soap and bowler hats. Leave them unappeased, and they’ll form into groups, carrying banners and building barricades.  Eventually, they’ll march on your mansion and tear you limb from limb as recompense for leaving them hatless and smelly.

Anno 1800 is coming to PS5 and