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Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade

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Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade cover
Developers
Gaming Minds Studios
Publishers
Kalypso Media
Release dates
Windows September 17, 2010
macOS (OS X) April 9, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 66
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Business, Strategy
Vehicles Naval/watercraft
Themes Europe, Medieval
Series Patrician
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Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade on IGDB
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade on MobyGames
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade on Wikipedia
Patrician
The Patrician 1992
Patrician II: Quest for Power 2000
Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse 2003
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade 2010

Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view business and strategy game in the Patrician series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Windows
Publisher website
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Gold Edition also available.
Windows
GamersGate
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Gold Edition also available.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Gold Edition also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold Edition.
Windows
Humble Store
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Gold Edition also available.
Windows
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Gold Edition also available.
Windows
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)
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Windows

Version differences

The Gold Edition includes the base game and the Rise of a Dynasty DLC.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Rise of a Dynasty
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/57620/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/57620/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Not mentioned in the Steam store page, but the depot is present in both Steam and GOG.com releases.
German
Russian
Fan translation by «ENPY Studio»

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Requires the Rise of a Dynasty expansion.
Online play
4 Co-op
Requires the Rise of a Dynasty expansion.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6 series
ATI Radeon X1000 series
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/57620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (57620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - last accessed on 19 August 2022