The Guildhall

A guild built from nothing

Nine years of war have taken every able man into the king's levies. The roads still need guarding, the monsters have spread unchecked, and the old guilds only hire men. The queen's Free Charter lets a landholder hire whoever the war hasn't taken, and you hold one of the first: an empty field, a bedroll and a seal. Everyone who walks up to your gate is a woman with her own reason for needing the work.

Guildhall is an adult guild-building and management game.

What you do

• Raise the guild from camp to castle. Start with tents around a fire, then raise it to a Timber Hall behind a stake palisade, a Stone Guildhall inside dressed stone walls, and finally a Castle with curtain walls, corner towers and a gatehouse. Every rank of renown unlocks the next stage, and every room you built changes with it.
  
• Build piece by piece. Gather timber and stone, place each building from an overhead view, and watch it rise from footings to scaffold to finished hall while your women work.
  
• Hire women at the gate. New applicants arrive in the evening, each with her own skills, traits and lines. Choose who joins and who walks back down the road.
  
• Fit every recruit. Hiring opens the character creator on the woman herself: face, hair, skin and dozens of body sliders, with presets, randomise and undo. She arrives in her own clothes and signs on in the guild's uniform.
  
• Give everyone work. Hunters, cooks, woodcutters and builders keep the camp running while you walk the grounds and talk to them in first person.
  
• Follow the guild's business in your journal. Quests with clear objectives, your steward's advice and rewards when they're done.
  
• Send parties out on contracts and wait for them to come home. A failed job can leave a woman captured, and then it's your call whether to send a rescue.
  
• Survive. Everyone eats every night, the Warden included. Let the larder run dry and morale falls, wounds stop healing and women start leaving. Water and ale matter too.
  
• Earn their trust. The women react to your choices and grow closer through what you do for them, not through clicking. Intimacy has to be earned.
  
• Answer to the crown. Every quarter the Writ office inspects your charter. Fall short and your renown suffers.
  
• Never lose progress. The game autosaves every morning, when you raise the guild and before big moments, alongside your own save slots.
  
• Iron Charter mode for players who want losses to be permanent.

All characters depicted are adults aged 18 or older. This game contains nudity and explicit sexual content.