Patrician II's award-winning Game's successor, Patrician III, has sophisticated in-game AI that adapts to the Game's complexity based on the player's skill and experience. You can acquire riches and power in this socioeconomic sandbox Game in various ways; it is up to you what you plan to do with it. Bring up to Eight of your friends involved in a multiplayer Game via LAN or online.

Plot:

Join the renowned Hanse commerce organisation throughout the 13th century by becoming a fellow. Control the politics, reputation, and financial prosperity of the city and the well-known regions of Europe! Construct a commercial empire throughout the Middle Ages, then broaden it to include the entire Old World. Build warehouses, workshops, brickworks, and other structures to improve your Hanseatic financial standing. Become well-known in your city by building its infrastructure—roads, hospitals, and schools—and by rising to Lord Mayor, which gives you complete power over the city. Be a well-known pirate killer, or turn yourself into one!

Visit some of the world's major cities, including London, Hamburg, Oslo, Stockholm, and Novgorod. Investigate the Mediterranean while expanding your trading empire. Celebrate battle victories and the expansion of your town with galas. Manage enormous trading operations while coping with the effects of heightened seasonal weather.

Key Features:

• You can advance diplomatically and through town improvements or increase your wealth through piracy and smuggling. Today, develop your modest town into a significant commerce hub with enormous economic influence.
• Build a mediaeval city's warehouses, mints, schools, farms, and other facilities while serving as its ruler.
• Run extensive trading activities and manage the implications of increased seasonal weather
• Fight rivals and pirates in epic naval battles.
• Trading, employing trading offices and ships, is often the significant action of The Patrician. In this Game, supply and demand are crucial. Patrician, typically regarded as one of the most complicated business simulations, can overburden the player with data. Additionally, players can create industries, private homes, public buildings, a political career, and interactions with pirates and burglars. 
• The Game has a sophisticated dynamic economy that human and A.I.-controlled players' actions may influence. It then impacts numerous towns.
• The popularity gained from fostering a town's development will benefit the player at the Hanseatic elections.

The Game's objective is to become the Hanseatic League's leader, although the player can only vote in Hanseatic elections after being chosen as the hometown's lord mayor.

The Patrician, a 1992 film, has two follow-ups: Patrician II: Quest for Power and Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse, produced by Ascaron (2002). Following the purchase of the licences from the bankrupt Ascaron corporation by Kalypso Media, the Patrician franchise was revived in 2010 with Patrician IV.