Painters Guild
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 542 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
64 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 77 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51) and (the) Gnorp Apologue ($6.99, scores 83) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
What players say
This is the cutest, most adorable management game ever. Made for art history nerds. As a management game, it is quite robust: the mechanics are intuitive and very easy to understand, but the game is still pretty hard even for seasoned management game lovers. The little art history jokes are amazing: even though it is a very small game, I keep finding stuff that make me laugh. For example, the city news! They give...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I wonder if I have more play time in this game than anyone else in the world (apart from the creator of course). It has an addictive game loop. It is a very simple game; it feels like it could have been much more! but that's kind of what I like about it. It's easy to understand how it works under the hood, it's easy to imagine all the mechanics that make it what it is. Every time I play it, I think about the game...
Found a game-breaking bug that was reported 8 years ago and the developer never cared to fix. It's fun otherwise, but buyer beware
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Painters Guild scores 18/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/384550/painters-guildReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.