We all have 'that game'. For me, it's Europa 1400: The Guild. What's your's?

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Yeah it’s Europe 1400: the guild for me too. Love that game and can’t get behind the second or third game. I loved to play it over lan with my friends.
- It has so much atmosphere to it, I don't think any other game has truly replicated it so far. Haven't tried the third yet but I heard bad things.
  
  The third works but that’s it. It was a buggy mess when it got into early access but the second developer that took it over did good work.
  You are right. The atmosphere and that you did not have to micro manage so much stuff made it into a really great and relaxing game.
- 1400 is a masterpiece. It’s a shame that the sequels went for this 3D sims styled gameplay. I don’t want to control the whole family. I want to control one member of the family.
- I loved to play it over lan with my friends.
  Or as a true Guild player describes it: "keeping save game backups and doing regular checks to figure out if the game state is still in sync". "The Guild" was the reason I got a "It's not a bug, it's a feature" T-Shirt for LAN parties.
  And don't get me wrong: I am saying the game is SO GOOD it was totally worth all that trouble. I wish so hard for someone to release/leak the source code some time so someone with enough pain tolerance can try to rework the network stack. Or maybe a remaster of that game. It has a so much better feeling than its successors.
  
  I would buy four copies if they would make a remaster/remake with the possibility to play over the internet. Damn… gonna install it again and I will start looking at creating a vpn server.
  
  In my experience the sync issues get much worse over VPN. The implementation seems to be extremely timing sensitive.
  Oh and over the internet you don't have the chance to quickly look over to your pals monitors to notice that their current court hearing scene looks different from yours (at which point you can alt+f4 and look for the last good savegame).
  
  thats a shame.... Then i will have to play solo.

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