Kalypso Media’s economic and trading simulation, Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade, has gone gold and will ship to North American retail outlets on September 14 for Windows PC.

In Patrician IV, the player assumes the role of a young merchant in the area of the Baltic and North Sea during the late Middle Ages, the zenith of the Hanseatic League and its naval trading empire. Starting from meager beginnings as a small stall trader, players must use every skill at their disposal to rise through the merchant ranks and become the most powerful merchant in Europe. The supply and demand-based trading system allows players to grow their business and head out onto the high seas to form trading routes with other Hanseatic cities, and negotiate better prices for the buying and selling of goods.