Painters Guild cover art

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…

67 1 September 2015

Painters Guild is an indie developed by Lucas Molina, released 1 September 2015 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Painters Guild is

Painters Guild is an indie game developed by Lucas Molina and released in 2015. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Adobe AIR.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Painters Guild holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, 1 GB RAM and Any. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

Full requirements and PC checker →

What it launched against

Painters Guild launched on 1 September 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn and Mad Max. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn, Mad Max.

Screenshots

All media

Quick answers

Painters Guild — frequently asked questions

When did Painters Guild come out?
Painters Guild was released on 1 September 2015 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Painters Guild?
At minimum, Painters Guild needs 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, 1 GB RAM, Any graphics, 200 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Painters Guild?
The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("200 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

If you like this

Games like Painters Guild

See all