The Guild 1 Remake Europa 1410

Hear ye, hear ye!

The big day has arrived - The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 is now available in Early Access! With our Early Access release, we are also updating the demo so that you can try it out before purchasing Europa 1410. Please do not load any previously made saves for the demo - they will not be compatible with the latest demo version. We highly recommend starting a fresh new save for the best experience. We have put the old version of the demo on a separate Steam branch: demo_0.3.0, so you can finish your current playthrough before switching to the new version of the demo.

After giving the demo a go, you can purchase The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410 in Early Access for EUR/USD 19.79 for the first two weeks, saving 34% - after which it will be EUR/USD 29.99.

What can you expect in the game?

With our EA release, a very noticeable change is how you start building your character to shape your dynasty. Aside from choosing your profession, you can choose from a list of names and surnames as you see fit, as well as dynasty backstories, which can influence various stats of your character and heirs - even giving you the chance to get a leg up depending on your profession and backstory of choice. You can also choose what crest will represent your dynasty, and your portrait for your first character.

During Early Access, we will of course add more customization options with more control over your dynasty’s crest and your name.

In terms of gameplay and immersion, you can now enjoy dioramas for different actions and events, such as courting, the travelling preacher, the travelling bard, and more.

Head to the Soulmate Fair to find the perfect match. What are you looking for in a partner? Riches? Good health?

Woo your chosen partner by clicking on their character. Choose between sending a gift or sweet-talking to progress towards betrothal!

Based on community feedback, we have also moved many actions from menus into buildings, where you can interact with objects and characters to trigger the same actions.

You may now also assign a member of your dynasty as the Master of your business - but make sure that they are properly trained in the craft to ensure that they are competent! Please note that this is a first iteration of this feature. We will give you more automation controls and improve the masters' behaviour throughout Early Access.

Economy also got its first big update with our Early Access release: prices for all items now properly depend on supply and demand, the current season, your skills, as well as your building’s improvements. As this also opens new opportunities for development, we will now start to add special effects to certain events to further impact the economy and your gameplay experience.

The price breakdown tells you exactly where you get the most for your items.

This is just the beginning of our journey to 1.0 - we have many more things up our sleeve, and we hope you are looking forward to what’s coming based on our roadmap. We’re looking forward to your feedback and thoughts on Europa 1410!

In case you experience any issues or encounter any bugs, we would appreciate it if you could report them using the following link: https://bugreporting.thqnordic.com/#/projects/197/the-guild-europa-1410/add-issue

With this update, we have also made many other tweaks and improvements. You can find the detailed changelog below:

Gameplay

• Added: AI now acts for their own benefit and profit

• Added: Economy and pricing of items affected by seasons, stock, and availability

• Tweaked: Time speed options adjusted (slowest speed is now 0.5x, normal speed is now 1x, faster speed is now 3.8x, and fastest speed is now 10x)

• Tweaked: Players can no longer vote for themselves when applying for the highest position in a chamber

• Tweaked: Effects of choices for “Exhaustion Plagues Your Business” event nerfed

• Tweaked: Stock availability and rate of replenishment of valuable raw materials such as Silver Ingot, Gold Ingot, Precious Stone, Oakwood Board, Slate Tile, and Musk have been lowered

Visuals and animations

• Added: Your own character is now visible when you visit certain buildings (still work in progress)

• Added: Crowd density setting added to the game settings to tweak the amount of visible NPCs walking in the city at the same time

• Added: Prison bars texture for character portraits when your character is imprisoned

• Added: Interior scenes and dioramas for well, fountain, shrine, rostrum, pillory, physician, prison, and various profession guilds

• Added: More character portrait variants

• Added: More family crest variants (still work in progress)

• Added: Construction visual effects for fountain, well, and house level upgrades

• Added: Loom and knitting needles visuals

• Added: Grindstone and lathe animations

• Added: New background visuals when choosing character backstory, profession, crest, etc

• Added: Animations and visualizations for children in the city (still work in progress)

• Tweaked: Wedding as the default animation in the church has been replaced with animations depicting standing prayers

• Tweaked: Collisions of animals in dioramas

• Tweaked: Placement of Circus Artists' Guild building to not be on the dirt road

• Tweaked: Max zoom-out tilt tightened for the city camera

• Fixed: No more dead people walking in the city

• Fixed: Closed the windows: no more snow indoors in dioramas

Audio

• Added: Narrator voiceover in German by Aart Veder

• Added: Several UI and notification sounds

• Tweaked: Various ambient sound volumes

• Tweaked: Sounds in various dioramas (Mine, Marketplace, Fountain, Pillory, Alchemist business, Courting diorama, Perfumer business, and Prison diorama)

• Tweaked: Wood creaking sounds

UI

• Added: Sorting options in the Marketplace

• Added: Search functionality in the Marketplace

• Added: Hide or show out-of-stock items functionality in the Marketplace

• Added: Notification for when courting is stopped

• Added: Item tooltips now show buy/sell price breakdown

• Added: “Report a bug” button in the pause menu and main menu

• Added: “Join us on Discord” button in the pause menu

• Added: Roadmap button in the main menu

• Tweaked: Hiring fee in “Hire Worker” menu readability improvements

• Tweaked: Tooltip positioning to not cover context menus

• Tweaked: Construction Menu visuals

• Tweaked: Victory condition picker is now in the city selection menu

• Tweaked: Order and categorization of destinations in cart destination dropdown menu

• Tweaked: Toast notification duration shortened

• Tweaked: City Overview menu polished

Texts

• Added: German language text (some texts can still appear in English)

• Tweaked: Countless texts and descriptions got a makeover

Known issues

• You may see duplicate entries in the City Archives

• You cannot remarry after your spouse dies

• Children character visualizations are disproportionate

• Character and cart pathing throughout the map may not stick to roads

• Characters may A-pose in different circumstances, such as while being in dioramas

• Children may accuse you of crimes

• Some items may not list the effects they cause

• Some items may have the “Use item” option, though they may not be usable

• The game may freeze if you use items that target buildings

• If an applicant dies before an election, they will still be part of the election

• Beehives are currently missing as we are working on features to make them more exciting

• You can experience occasional performance issues and short freezes

• Icons for interactive objects in dioramas might not be aligned with the actual interactive object

• Options and consequences of actions that you can take when your cart has been waylaid may be unclear

Hear ye, hear ye!

We bring an update to the demo of The Guild - Europa 1410, with additions and fixes alike.

The most notable addition is a new map named Herle, part of the duchy of Brabant. In 1410, Herle was a fortified church; today it is part of the Dutch city of Heerlen. Herle is a small and cozy settlement, and it serves as a tutorial map to help onboard new players, together with tutorial goals to guide newcomers to The Guild.

A birds-eye view of Herle

In addition to this new map, the most important additions of this update are:

Tutorial tasks

If you play the game on our new tutorial map of Herle, you will get small tasks that make it easier for you to find your bearings and get a good understanding of the game. Herle is a small map, designed to keep you focused on the essentials of the game.

A new filtering system for highlighting buildings

You can now select what is highlighted by the building overlay and choose to filter by your buildings, all profession buildings, all city-owned or private structures, residences or resource sites such as mines or woodland areas.

New and tweaked animations to reflect the activities of workers

Workers are now visibly working on their tasks, and every task has been assigned a set of animations.

This is a first iteration; we will continue to improve and add more animations for tasks and activities in future updates.

We wanted to address the most-mentioned feedback from the community so far with this update, so we focused on adding an improved onboarding experience with Herle, building outlines and highlight tweaks to be less meddlesome, as well as a new system for animations to reflect worker activities.

We're excited for you to jump into our demo update! Give it a try here: https://thqn.net/tge-demo-steam

In case you experience any issues or encounter any bugs, we would appreciate it if you could report them using the following link: https://bugreporting.thqnordic.com/#/projects/197/the-guild-europa-1410/add-issue

Of course, the update includes many more improvements, tweaks and fixes. You can find the detailed changelog below:

Gameplay

• Added: New tutorial Map “Herle”

• Added: Tutorial missions (only available on Herle)

• Added: Worker state machine states for work-life cycle, unemployed, and go-to-house

• Added: You can now batch assign idle workers and unassign workers to tasks and crafting goods

• Added: You can now assign workers to repeat certain tasks

• Added: "Sign Up for Public Service” now influences Unrest

• Tweaked: You can now unassign workers while they are working on an ongoing task (such as gathering ingredients), but doing so while they are in the middle of the task will cause you to lose progress on that task

• Tweaked: Accident Chance is now measured per 120 minutes

• Tweaked: Storage slots in sheds increased from 2/3/4 to 4/6/8

• Tweaked: Effect of “Accident Protection” improvement from +10/+20/+30 to +5/+10/+15

• Tweaked: Burglary protection decreases based on crime level (-4/-8/-12)

• Tweaked: Chance for catching the queen bee reduced

• Tweaked: Starting crime rate in quarters increased

• Tweaked: Increased AP cost of skill training

• Tweaked: Lowered starting taxes

• Tweaked: Lowered cost of waylaying carts

• Tweaked: AI and its actions based on economics:

• AI is now less likely to place items in their storefront, and is more likely to sell by using carts

• AI is slightly more likely to attack carts

• AI will be a bit more patient when sending carts to buy ingredients

• AI is less likely to leave office positions

Tweaked: Duels now start immediately after the challenge is accepted

Fixed: “Socialize at inn” now improves opinion with people

Fixed: Beehives generated too much revenue

Fixed: Constructed buildings were not shown after loading a savegame

Fixed: Duels were not loaded properly when loading a save that was made after the duel has begun

Fixed: Victory conditions and challenges were not passed on to the heir

Fixed: Training Bonus 2 did not require having Training Bonus 1

Fixed: Business improvements relating to gathering ingredients now work properly

Visuals and animations

• Added: Worker animations now reflect their current task

• Added: Additional work stations for workers in buildings

• Added: Building interior entrance point for character animations depicting arrival

• Added: Logic for character animations relating to walking in/out

• Added: Smoke effect for chimneys

• Added: Light beams and dust visuals to various interiors to improve ambience

• Added: More character portraits

• Added: Color variants for characters

• Added: Flowerbed visuals in the Alchemist’s business

• Tweaked: Grass colors depending on the season

• Tweaked: Slightly improved snow visuals

• Tweaked: Character visuals optimization

• Tweaked: Occlusion settings for some ambience and foley sounds

• Tweaked: St. Barbara’s Church for visual improvement

• Tweaked: Interior glowing glass material to be more atmospheric

• Tweaked: Decreased visual effects when quarter values change

• Fixed: A-posing characters

• Fixed: Building highlights, crests, and building icons in the city are visible in dioramas

• Fixed: Missing textures in the backdrop of building interiors

• Fixed: Snow on items located indoors in interiors

Audio

• Added: Fisherman splash sounds

• Added: Stillwater sounds

• Added: New songbirds audio

• Added: Voiceovers for various events and circumstances:

• Ranking up in profession

• Worker promotion

• Worker low in energy

• Selecting workers for hiring

• Unassigning a worker from a task

• Clicking on a worker for the purpose of dragging and dropping them

• Start voting in an election

• Start of spying

• End of spying

• Evidence gained from spying

• A building upgrade is ready

Tweaked: Insect sounds

Tweaked: Hammering sounds in the Innkeeper’s business

Tweaked: UI sounds rebalanced

Tweaked: Rain sounds are now quieter

Tweaked: Area around the city walls is now quieter

Fixed: Background music stops after creating and loading a save inside an interior

UI

• Added: New button to set filter for building highlight overlay

• Added: UI for setting tasks to be automatically repeated by workers in the business management window

• Added: Borders for family crests based on rank

• Added: Dynasty rank now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Dynasty wealth now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Dynasty renown now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Number of dynasty members now visible in the Family Tree

• Added: Background color behind the words illegal/legal in law tooltips based on the act’s legality

• Added: “Unguarded Cart” tooltip and warning sign on “Send” button for a cart that does not have an escort

• Added: Names for carts instead of numbers

• Added: Visual effect when minimizing windows in certain situations to explain how to re-open the window

• Ongoing event button for elections and trials when minimized

• Event button when event is minimized

• City Archives button when tutorial prompts are closed

• Planned event list button when a new event of important priority is added

Added: Warning that items cannot be moved from the character’s inventory to other places, such as selling in the Marketplace, or moving from the character’s inventory to carts

Tweaked: Cart windows' positioning to prevent obstruction of other elements

Tweaked: Size of the tooltip area for District and Quarter in the City Overview menu to be larger

Tweaked: Carts in the city do not need to be clicked anymore to view information; hovering over the cart will show details of the cart’s owner, items inside, and destination

Tweaked: Background colors for icons relating to various status effects

Tweaked: Progress bars in events made more visible

Tweaked: Background appearance for planned events to reflect whether an event happened in the past, is in progress, or will happen in the future

Tweaked: Tooltips for top HUD buttons adjusted so that the cursor does not cover them upon hovering

Tweaked: Position of element showing the remaining turns to not overlap with the reset camera button

Tweaked: Adjusted the position of the cart’s integrity so that cart names fit better

Tweaked: UI layout for “Improve Skill” menu

Tweaked: Law names now break into a new line instead of scaling down in size to maintain readability

Fixed: Upcoming Events window causes keyboard input not being registered

Quality of Life

• Added: Double-click to enter interiors

• Added: Right-click to exit interiors

• Tweaked: “Camera Parallax” effect disabled by default

Texts

• Added: Tutorial texts to the City Archives under the “Tutorial” section for posterity

• Tweaked: Text for Crime status effects

• Tweaked: Sturdiness text from integrity to maximum integrity

• Tweaked: Description of Sacred Scent to reflect that it gives +1 Action Point

• Tweaked: Renamed the chevron icon under a building’s name from “Upgrade” to “Upgrades” to denote that it will show a list of upgrades implemented in the building

• Tweaked: “Cheaper Repairs” building improvement description now indicates that it lowers repair costs by 10% instead of 5%

• Tweaked: Bed and Portal improvement descriptions so they specify the exact type of energy regeneration based on the energy tooltip, whether it is per turn or per hour

• Tweaked: Quarter status effect names changed from Poorly Maintained, In Disrepair, and Declared Ruinous to Unkempt Streets, Filthy Streets, and Crumbling Streets

• Tweaked: Adornments improvement text to say it increases opinion with citizens only, instead of citizens and workers

• Fixed: Descriptions for Pillory, Fountain, and Well for the city upgrades were not updating after completing the upgrade

• Fixed: Jan Žižka tooltip text

Known issues:

• There may be delays in notifications for completing goals

• When unassigning workers while they work on an ongoing task (such as gathering ingredients), you may lose progress on that task

• Previous saves are not compatible with the demo update - please start a new game

• Double-clicking to enter a building might not work reliably on rare occasions