The Guild 3

The Guild 3 is rarely challenging, often relaxing, and unintentionally funny most of the time.

Graphically, the leap in quality compared to previous interactions is evident while the sound sector seems old and uninspired. The possibility of "living" one of the 13 professions available is certainly appreciable but after about ten hours the limits of the playful recipe begin to be felt. Basically The Guild 3 is a fair exponent of the genre of belonging but could have aspired to higher peaks.

The Guild 3 isn't a bad game, but isn't also significantly better than the previous chapter of the series. A terrible interface and some boring mechanics tend to spoil an otherwise interesting gameplay.

Released 16 years after The Guild 2, the third entry in the series disappoints. Dated graphics, simplified gameplay, unintuitive interface and various other flaws greatly diminish its substantial potential. The Guild 3 spent six years in Early Access and judging by its state, it should have spent there an additional year or two.

On paper, there’s a lot of variety in The Guild 3. But most of the “alternative” gameplay options either require unreasonable amounts of busywork, or simply aren’t profitable. And if you just want to run a workshop, – The Guild 2 would work just as well. [Issue#260, p.46]