The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas
4HEAD Studios · 2010 · Simulation, Strategy, Medieval, Pirates, RPG
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About The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas
Build and manage thriving medieval settlements across a vast European landscape where every decision impacts your society's survival and prosperity. This expansion adds naval warfare, maritime trading, and 10+ hours of new campaign content with Hanseatic cities, five ship types, and fresh professions like pirate and medicus to master.
The Addon expands and transforms the game into an even greater experience by adding a huge area including the cities of "The Hanse" located at the shores of the European seas. Sea battles and naval trading are added to the gameplay, and a new campaign mode provides more than 10 hours of additional fun.
Key features:
- Naval trading, sea battles
- 4 new maps, 5 different types of ships, each one can be equipped according to your needs
- Campaign mode including more than 10 hours of pure medieval fun
- New buildings (harbour, fishermans hut, pirate outpost), trading station as upgrade
- New professions: Pirate and Medicus!
- 3 new offices and titles of nobility with new privileges
What Steam players say
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Fall for the fantasy, and you'll sink. To survive, you have to watch the bottom line.15 found this helpful
Only worth it for the story mode otherwise renaissance exists. I still liked it so eh thumbs up why not1 found this helpful
This game has so many great ideas, but in it's current state it has some serious problems. This is a game that I want to love and I want to play, but after losing an hour here and an hour there due to save issues and crashes, it grows tiresome. There is little to no explanation for many game features and I shouldn't really need to go to the internet to find out everything about a game if the game has a sufficiently explained mechanism or feature. I forgive it for being an older game and I overlook much of the muddiness and clumsy AI, but even trying to schmooze at the council meetings is just a mess. I will probably play it some more because there are so many things I would like to love, but I feel myself drifting away from my initial interest due to the many warts on this game.
Best idea ever, worst implementation ever....More stable on newer systems than it was at launch.
The Guild II – Pirates of the European Seas is an ambitious standalone expansion that takes the already dense life-simulation and strategy framework of The Guild II and pushes it outward onto the open waters of Renaissance Europe. Developed by 4HEAD Studios and published by THQ Nordic, the game expands the familiar formula of dynasty management, economic competition, and political maneuvering by introducing naval trade, piracy, and maritime warfare. Rather than reinventing the core experience, it broadens its scope, giving players new avenues to pursue wealth, power, and influence while retaining the series’ hallmark focus on emergent storytelling and systemic depth. At its foundation, the game remains a complex social and economic simulation where players guide a character and their descendants through the intricacies of medieval life. Every decision—whether economic, political, or personal—ripples outward, affecting not just immediate success but the long-term survival of an entire family line. Businesses must be established and protected, rivals undermined, marriages arranged, and political offices secured. Pirates of the European Seas enriches this framework by adding coastal …
classic game, city/family sim with politics and economy. played all the series for over a decade and im pleased the guild 3 is out, highly recommend this game.
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