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The Guild Gold Edition cover art

The Guild Gold Edition

4HEAD Studios · THQ Nordic · 2014-09-09

SteamGOG

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 08, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.

8
playing now
74%
positive of 604 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Europa 1400: The Guild is a 2002 simulation game developed by 4HEAD Studios and published by JoWooD Productions. It is the first installment in the Guild series, released in October 2002 for Windows. The game simulates medieval life combined with elements of real-time strategy, role-playing, and nonlinear gameplay using a 3D engine. Taking place in historic European cities, the player tries to guide a family dynasty to power and wealth, starting from one character of limited means. Players can choose from a total of a dozen professions.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 604 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2019-09-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 72 of 111 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$13.88$1.192015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.992015-05-21 — best price $11.112015-10-12 — best price $9.992016-02-23 — best price $4.992016-08-15 — best price $2.492017-01-12 — best price $2.492017-08-03 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-07-09 — best price $2.492018-12-11 — best price $9.992019-04-30 — best price $2.492019-09-13 — best price $2.492020-01-01 — best price $8.992020-04-08 — best price $2.492020-07-27 — best price $2.492021-01-07 — best price $9.992021-06-21 — best price $9.992021-10-15 — best price $2.202022-02-07 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $2.492022-09-29 — best price $2.492023-01-07 — best price $9.992023-05-04 — best price $9.992023-08-28 — best price $2.492023-12-22 — best price $2.492024-04-23 — best price $2.492024-07-14 — best price $9.992024-12-05 — best price $9.992025-03-03 — best price $1.952025-06-09 — best price $2.502025-09-30 — best price $2.142026-01-06 — best price $4.992026-04-27 — best price $9.992026-08-01 — best price $1.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RPGClassicEconomyTradingMedievalStrategyManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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