Games like Painters Guild
If Painters Guild is your kind of game, the closest matches are Country Tales 2: New Frontiers Collector's Edition, Internet Cafe Owner and Industry Giant — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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 →About Painters Guild: 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Painters Guild 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.
Country Tales 2: New Frontiers Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Join the new sheriff in town, forge strong friendships and explore the Wild West in this fun and dynamic time management strategy game! Enjoy in dozens of unique levels, bonus levels, medals and collectables; build, upgrade, trade, collect, clear the road, explore and much more...
Internet Cafe Owner
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Painters Guild.
Second-strongest match for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Build and manage your own internet café, starting with second-hand computers and growing into a local hotspot for gamers and students. Balance your budget, upgrade your gear, and outsmart competitors to become the king of the neighborhood
Industry Giant
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!
Car Manufacture
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Painters Guild.
Ranked #4 for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
Europa Universalis IV
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Let's Build a Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Painters Guild.
Ranked #6 for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
The Emperor and State
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
Two Point Museum
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Painters Guild.
Ranked #8 for Painters Guild fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Reviewers mention these as similar to Painters Guild
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Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Painters Guild.
Reviewers of Painters Guild cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
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?
Unholy Heights
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Painters Guild.
Reviewers of Painters Guild cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!
Littlewood
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Painters Guild.
Reviewers of Painters Guild cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Painters Guild at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Painters Guild.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Painters Guild.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Painters Guild on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Painters Guild.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Painters Guild.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Lucas Molina
Other recommendable Steam games by Lucas Molina, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Robotherapy
WHY THIS
Another title from Lucas Molina, the studio behind Painters Guild. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Roguemance
WHY THIS
Another title from Lucas Molina, the studio behind Painters Guild. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Roguemance is a roguelite with romance. Each battle is a date! Meet love interests, fight relationship problems and make heart-breaking decisions.
Firelore: Short Tales
WHY THIS
Another title from Lucas Molina, the studio behind Painters Guild. Shares Indie with Painters Guild.
3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.
Frequently asked about Painters Guild
- Does Painters Guild run on Steam Deck?
- Painters Guild 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 Painters Guild cost?
- Painters Guild is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Painters Guild?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Painters Guild are Country Tales 2: New Frontiers Collector's Edition, Internet Cafe Owner, Industry Giant.
- Who developed Painters Guild?
- Painters Guild was developed by Lucas Molina.
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