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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.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 543 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 29% of 9,678 Casual games in the census by review count.
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 7 of 13 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieCasualEconomySandboxColorfulStrategyHistoricalManagement

Census log

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

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