The Guild II Renaissance

The Guild II Renaissance

Fair · Strategy · 2010

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The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$2.4975% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$1.26/hr
Reviews▼
84% of 4,280
Critics
56 players 28 higher
Genre rank
Top 9% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
7.9h
Achievements
137

Price and sales

Sales
93 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.99 June 2016
Sale every
46d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
43 now
Cheaper than
29% of its genre
Better reviewed
86% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

3% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 93 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdoms Reborn ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats The Guild 3 ($29.99, scores 10).

More about The Guild II Renaissance

56 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 475 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 340 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.26/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Refunds4 of 475 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

What players say

The game has been brought back to life by community developer updates - thank you!
Big AlRecommendedafter 229hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Possibly the greatest game of all time, especially now that, out of nowhere, the developers have started patching it again and doing a phenomenal job, because the biggest pain points of this game are quickly and efficiently being resolved. Big thanks to the devs for doing this after a decade! And get the game if you like the genre!!
Pylz®™Recommendedafter 36hSep 2026Read on Steam
ummm not sure what the hype was bout this game. buggy as shiiiiz. only 3 bucks so try it at your own risk but naah. too much bug. edit: been playing more despite the bugs. yeah its pretty fun. unfortunately so glaring dev decisions that really hurt the game. IE unable to really do much with your dynasty. you have to wait till your guy dies off first before you add more then 1 of your kids to your group. why? because...
harrisssonjugaNot recommendedafter 19h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 capable graphics adapter with Pixelshader Model 1.1, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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The Guild II Renaissance scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/39680/the-guild-ii-renaissance
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+28
Critics56
Players84
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 4,280 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperRuneforge Game Studio
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreStrategy
Released2010
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements137