Patrician II: Quest for Power

Patrician II: Quest for Power is a strategy and business simulation game in which the player joins the Hanseatic League, a group of daring traders banded together to trade with foreign lands, aiming to become a patrician. They play the role of an emulous trader determined on succeeding and shaping their own empire by gathering information, setting up trading offices across the Haneseatic League and trading in those offices all the while battling off pirates along the trade routes.

They start off as a shopkeeper with one ship, buying and selling in multiple towns in the Hanse. The more money they make and the higher their reputation in their town (as well as others) will afford them higher titles and privileges such as building workshops to increase production to trade more. Additionally, the player can engage in politics and work their way from a lowly shopkeeper through Lord Mayor to Alderman. They can have up to four different ships to build and upgrade to either combat pirates or try and outrun them. Sea battles with pirates are played out either manually by the player or automatically by the computer. As the seasons change, so do the graphics in towns to show fall leaves, snow covered roofs etc., and even ports that freeze over in the winter.

Singleplayer games include the typical campaign and a separate mode with customizable options. Multiplayer allows for up to eight players to play with or against each other at the same time in a hot seat, over a network (LAN) or the Internet.