Anno 117: Pax Romana Cheats on PC

No console, but a mod folder from day one

Anno games have never had a cheat console, and Anno 117 keeps that record. There is no key that opens a command line, no launch option, no phrase. Players asked for one on the Steam forum in the first weeks and got the same answer they got in 1800: use a tool.

What is new is that the tool can be official. Anno 117 has supported mods since launch, with the in-game browser still on the roadmap, and the mod folder sits under your documents as Anno 117 - Pax Romana/mods. Three days after release, on 16 November 2025, an example mod named Infinite Money went live on mod.io. It is 1.22 KB. It keeps your balance at one billion. You extract the zip into the mods folder and remove the # from active-profile.txt, and the mod loader writes a mod-loader.log next to it if something goes wrong.

That is the whole free route, and it is a good one. A billion credits is not a subtle change, but a governor who cannot afford the next public building is a governor who waits, and the mod removes the wait.

What a billion credits does not fix

Money in Anno 117 is the easy currency. The province stalls on other things.

A population tier has needs, and a need is a good, and a good is a chain: fields, workshops, the road between them, the warehouse at the end. When one link runs short, the next twenty minutes are building and waiting, and the tier above is already ticking. Research points come from schools and unlock a tree of more than a hundred entries. Religion accumulates belief per chosen god. Workforce is a count of people, and people arrive when the houses are there and the needs are met, not when the treasury is full.

The money mod touches none of that. Neither does the difficulty setting in endless mode, which picks a province, Latium or Albion, and sets how forgiving the start is. Since Patch 2.1, which added support for the Echoes of Kassandra cosmetic pack in September 2026, the settings are the same ones you had at launch.

Where the trainer reaches

The Anno 117: Pax Romana trainer lists 16 cheats, five of them free. The free five are credits in three directions, add, subtract and reset to zero, plus two that fill every resource in an open harbor to at least 50 percent. Three money switches and two of them make you poorer is an unusual free tier. It exists because Anno players roleplay, and a treasury reset is how you start a self-imposed hard mode without a new game.

The premium group is the chain problem. Max all resources and Max available resources fill the open harbor, which is the shortage fixed at the warehouse instead of the field. All needs fulfilled removes the tier wait. Mega prestige, mega religion and mega workforce move the three currencies that are not money. Set research multiplier speeds the tree. Instant build and recruit takes the twenty minutes off the clock, and godmode for buildings and ships is there for the day the neighbour stops being a neighbour.

Mega income and Max Credits are also on the list, and they do exactly what the mod does, with one difference: they are a switch you can turn off before the save you want to keep.

Which one for which evening

The difficulty setting if the problem is the first hour. It is free and it costs no achievements.

The Infinite Money mod if money is the only wall and you are fine with one billion forever. It is a two-minute install.

The trainer if the wall is workforce, needs or a chain that will not close, and you want to switch the help off again afterwards. Nothing goes into the game folder, and it stays in single-player.

The province you lay out is still yours either way. The trainer just stops the clock while you lay it.