

Rise of Venice
Gaming Minds Studios · 2013 · Strategy, Simulation, Trading, Economy, Historical
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About Rise of Venice
Build a trading empire across Renaissance Mediterranean cities through strategic commerce, diplomacy, and fleet management while climbing the ranks of Venetian society to become the Doge. Navigate intricate politics, command sea battles against pirates and rivals, manage your family's influence, and compete with up to 4 players in this blend of economic strategy and naval combat.
This is where your story begins. As a young man striving for success, power and wealth and with the support of your family, you begin to build up a trading empire across Genua, Tripoli, Rome, Alexandria and Constantinople in addition to many other significant cities from the Renaissance. As you progress through the ranks of Venetian society, increasing your power with smart trading moves and calling in the occasional favour you can begin to assemble your own fleet. With this you will start to build up new production facilities, test yourself in challenging sea battles where you will face off against pirates as well as political enemies to finally become the Doge of Venice.
Key Features:
- Experience a compelling story full of intrigue and treason in Venice at the time of the Renaissance
- Trade a variety of goods in the most important cities of the time such as Rome, Alexandria, Constantinople or Athens.
- With your own family tree you can interact with your family members, send them on missions and watch how the power of your family grows over time.
- Meet other important families who are pulling the strings in Venice’s government and influence political decisions yourself.
- Build your own production facilities and trading fleets
- Take fate into your own hands and test your skills in furious sea battles
- Multiplayer mode for up to 4 players via LAN and Internet
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 1 of 1 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
No the game is old and an imitation of port royal 41 found this helpful
If u get it under 5$ its totally recommended but anything above that no. First i could not find modding community for game from 2013, so its either devs fault or game never took off in first place. Second, its hard to choose second reason for not getting it above 5$ but i would settle for fact that in freeplay u cant play as merchants from other cities, why cant u play as Genoa? it would literally be just switch of places, culture(names and style) would stay the same. Or even starts where u could start as mechant in none republic with ability to proclaim republic, that would have been great dlc and would put this game on 20-25$ mark even today. As third reason i will just pile up all other griefs with game: manual combat is actually ♥♥♥♥, very exploitative to win taking all fun out of it while manual combat is unstainable due to it most of my enjoyment comes from early game which is then limited by only having to play venice, combined with fact that all recources are same in all ur game runs makes this one time finish, and possible one more time after campaing doing one run with expanded map. Now lets go back to recources and their stoic stare at ur dying fun, early game is alw…
[h1] MEH [/h1]
patricians but in south Europe
Feels like a micromanagement job.
A game where auto trading is broken
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