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Painters Guild cover art

Painters Guild

Lucas Molina · 2015-09-01

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 01, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Painters Guild is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2015, priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 543 reviews).

1
playing now
67%
positive of 543 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 14k–33k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 543 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2018-01-08) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820162026Week of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-09-012026-07-092015-09-01 — best price $7.992015-12-01 — best price $9.992016-01-29 — best price $9.992016-05-02 — best price $9.992016-06-06 — best price $9.992016-08-22 — best price $9.992016-10-31 — best price $1.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-01-16 — best price $4.992017-05-25 — best price $9.992017-09-21 — best price $9.992017-11-23 — best price $2.392018-01-08 — best price $0.992018-02-15 — best price $2.492018-08-30 — best price $4.992018-11-05 — best price $1.992018-12-20 — best price $1.992019-06-26 — best price $1.492019-12-19 — best price $1.992020-02-10 — best price $3.392020-12-22 — best price $2.492021-06-24 — best price $1.992021-11-24 — best price $1.992022-02-14 — best price $1.492022-06-23 — best price $1.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-10-09 — best price $4.992023-12-21 — best price $1.992024-03-14 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $1.992025-02-28 — best price $4.992025-05-01 — best price $7.492025-06-27 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.492025-12-05 — best price $1.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-09-01 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DCuteIndieCasualEconomySandboxColorfulStrategyHistoricalManagement

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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