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Patrician IV

Gaming Minds Studios · Kalypso Media Digital · 2010-09-17

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 17, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.

21
playing now
56%
positive of 770 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Patrician IV is a business simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studios and part of the Patrician series. It is a game simulating trading, piracy, politics and economics. An expansion pack, Rise of a Dynasty, was released in April 2011.

Health check

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  • · Top 36% of 5,944 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 31k–62k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 770 total reviews — how this is computed.

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 1 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

EconomyTradingMedievalStrategyCapitalismHistoricalManagementSimulationMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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