The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas

The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas

Skip · Strategy · 2010

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 30, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
11h
Value
$0.91/hr
Reviews
72% of 268 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$0.91/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 71% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 78 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The first true life simulation series set in the fascinating medieval Europe! The Addon expands and transforms the game into an even greater experience by adding a huge area including the cities of "The Hanse" located at the shores of the European seas.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX9 capable graphics adapter with Pixelshader Model 1.1. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 94 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Guild II Renaissance ($9.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats The Guild 3 ($29.99, scores 10).

More about The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas

63 from critics against 72 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Players

Players online
5 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 09:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Fall for the fantasy, and you'll sink. To survive, you have to watch the bottom line.
HAYULRecommendedafter 10hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
One of my favourite classic games from back in the day. So happy to see it on Steam with all the content available. I still have the original CDs of these games, along with their manuals. Which I hold on to and it brings back nostalgia. The things I really love about the GUILD II is the production chains and management. All the various shops and raw material harvesting buildings. The character classes are also...
FerudaFarstariaRecommendedafter 193hNov 2021Read on Steam
The game is fun to play, but unfortunately crashes sometimes when trying to save on my system
flupp3kNot recommendedafter 23hMay 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas scores 30/100 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/39660/the-guild-ii-pirates-of-the-european-seas
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics63
Players72
Metacritic critics · 268 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer4HEAD Studios
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreStrategy
Released2010
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate