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Painters Guild

66% positive of 339 Steam reviews

Released: 2015
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Lucas Molina.

About the game

Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.

Tagged by players

Alternate History
Historical
Time Management
Capitalism
Management
Economy
Sandbox
Building
Crafting
Simulation
Retro
Pixel Graphics

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What players say

Not recommended
I really wanted to like this game, and for the first thirty minutes, I did. The problem is that after about an hour, the game plateaus. You're doing the same things over and over again, and there's no end game or advancement past a certain point. So why did I log three hours, making it impossible to get a refund for the game? Because I stupidly kept going for two hours trying to see if eventually anything would…
3.4 h played when written. 438 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
A cute little game but lacks depth for replayability. I'd like to see it move at a slightly slower pace over a shorter time period, some more personality in the painters, and some higher stakes for the decisions you make. Once you learn the mechanics it's very easy to have a stable of 4-5 painters at 100 skill (and a full back-burner of apprentices to fill the ranks) churning through everything that comes their way,…
9.6 h played when written. 49 found it helpful.
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