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Games like Europa 1400: The Guild

2002PC

You rise as a merchant in late medieval Europe, building guilds, production chains and trade routes while fighting your way past nobles and rivals. It blends economic simulation with real-time strategy in a historically inspired world.

Historical setting
Economy and management
Sandbox with your own goals
Building and crafting

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The closest matches for Europa 1400: The Guild are Banished, Stronghold Crusader and Patrician IV. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Europa 1400: The Guild special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Europa 1400: The Guild

Best alternative overall: Banished 97% match – Economy and management
Newest alternative: Anno 1404: History Edition 93% match – released 2020

Best match

Banished

97 %Match

2014PCSteam Deck playable90 % positive18.99 €

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

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Stronghold Crusader

Historical setting

A classic castle-building RTS set during the Crusades, blending economic management, fortress design and siege warfare. Its skirmish battles against iconic AI lords like Saladin or Richard the Lionheart give it huge replay value.

Patrician IV

Deep systems to master

You rise from a small merchant in the late medieval Hanseatic League to become its most powerful Elderman. Trade, your own production chains and a growing merchant fleet interlock into a dense economic simulation.

Stronghold

Historical setting

A medieval real-time strategy game where you build a castle, keep an economy of food and resources running, then defend it against sieges or storm enemy fortresses. The blend of castle design and city-builder management is what makes it special.

Europa Universalis III

Sandbox with your own goals

A grand strategy classic where you steer one of over 250 nations from 1453 to 1789 through trade, diplomacy, colonization and war. Enormous historical depth and freedom, but a steep learning curve.

Stronghold 2

Historical setting

A medieval castle-builder blending economy management with siege warfare: you juggle peasants, taxes and food, host tournaments or rule harshly, and defend your keep against rival lords.

Townsmen

Economy and management

You grow a small backwater village into a sprawling medieval metropolis. The appeal lies in its interlocking production chains, where you must keep your expanding population's needs in balance.

Anno 1404: History Edition

Sandbox with your own goals

A classic city-builder set between the medieval Occident and the Orient, where you grow trade empires, keep citizens supplied and sail goods across the seas. The History Edition brings the game and its Venice expansion to modern PCs in high resolution.

Patrician III

Sandbox with your own goals

A trading and economy simulation set in 14th-century Hanseatic Northern Europe: you rise from a small merchant to a powerful Patrician through trade, shipping, town politics and, if you like, piracy.

Pharaoh

Historical setting

A classic ancient Egypt city builder where you lay out housing, farm around the Nile floods, manage trade and raise monuments like pyramids. Supply logistics, pleasing the gods and occasional invasions make for a calm yet demanding flow.