Games like The Guild 3
If The Guild 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Guild II Renaissance, Res Publica and The Guild II — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and business management. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Guild 3 is a strategy-simulation-RPG hybrid set in the late Middle Ages, released in 2022 by Purple Lamp and GolemLabs. Players manage business empires across generations, balancing economic automation with family dynamics and political intrigue. The core mechanics include business management, economic automation systems, family lineage progression, and maneuvering through political networks. Reviewers note complex systems that reward long-term planning and describe the economy automation as incredibly satisfying. Players explore massive evolving maps featuring historical cities. With a challenging 60% positive rating from over 2,600 Steam reviews, the game offers substantial depth. The 29.99 USD price point and Steam Deck compatibility make it accessible, though its solo-only design may limit appeal for those seeking cooperative play.
About The Guild 3: The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Players who liked The Guild 3 also play
Steam players who put hours into The Guild 3 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
The Guild II Renaissance
WHY THIS
Shares family dynamics and an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Top pick for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
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.
Res Publica
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
RES PUBLICA - Citizens of Rome, an innovative city builder, life-simulation and roleplay game, invites the player to build his own roman city, manage his character, family and household during the ancient Roman Republic in 150 BC. Ave Caesar! Its up to you to lead the way for your home and family!
The Guild II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Third-strongest match for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Crusader Kings III
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Ranked #5 for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Coins, Crown & Cabal
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
Build a flourishing trade empire by amassing wealth, influence and power. Outsmart your rivals through political and economic moves and dominate commerce in your county.
SAELIG
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Ranked #7 for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Ranked #8 for The Guild 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Guild 3
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The Guild - Europa 1410
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
Forge your path to power in medieval Europe. Choose your profession and master trade, politics, and intrigue to climb the social ladder and found a dynasty. Secure your legacy and dominate history in this immersive economic simulation.
The Guild II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
The Guild II Renaissance
WHY THIS
Shares family dynamics and an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
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.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with The Guild 3.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Guild 3.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Mount & Blade
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Guild 3.
Reviewers of The Guild 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Guild 3.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Guild 3 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Guild 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Guild 3.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Guild 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Guild 3.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Guild 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Guild 3.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Guild 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Guild 3.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Guild 3 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Guild 3.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Guild 3 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Guild 3.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Guild 3.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Guild 3.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Guild 3.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Guild 3.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Purple Lamp, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
WHY THIS
Another title from Purple Lamp, the studio behind The Guild 3.
Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake
WHY THIS
Another title from Purple Lamp, the studio behind The Guild 3.
Wish-granting Mermaid’s Tears in the hands of SpongeBob and Patrick… What could go wrong? Sure, the very fabric holding the universe together could come undone, opening portals into wild Wishworlds. But that’s nothing our favorite sponge can’t handle- with the right cosmic costume!
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Guild 3.
Another title from Purple Lamp, the studio behind The Guild 3.
Embark on a magical journey in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed! Shape your adventure with the stroke of a brush and transform Wasteland as Mickey Mouse in this beautifully recreated 3D platformer.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide
WHY THIS
Another title from Purple Lamp, the studio behind The Guild 3.
Prepare to be scared! A clash between the Flying Dutchman and King Neptune has unleashed ghostly mayhem all over Bikini Bottom. Switch seamlessly between SpongeBob and Patrick, combine their unique skills and save Bikini Bottom from total ghostification!
Frequently asked about The Guild 3
- Does The Guild 3 run on Steam Deck?
- The Guild 3 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Guild 3 cost?
- The Guild 3 is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Guild 3 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Guild 3 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Guild 3?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Guild 3 are The Guild II Renaissance, Res Publica, The Guild II.
- Who developed The Guild 3?
- The Guild 3 was developed by Purple Lamp, GolemLabs and published by THQ Nordic.
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