Set during the – you guessed it- Italian Renaissance, your ultimate goal is to make money and secure your family's dynasty, all while moving up the social ladder. Fortunately, though, Renaissance is mostly stable. It doesn't help that virtually all the other Guild games thus far are pretty rough around the edges. It's a relatively obscure mixture of genres (RPG, strategy, business management and medieval life simulation – Phew!) that flew under a lot of people's radars - including my own, until recently.
If you've never even heard of The Guild 2: Renaissance before, you could be forgiven. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
