This Merchant Life
This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!
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September 6, 2019
6 years and 332 days ago
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Mostly Positive186 reviews75.3%
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8 itemsAbout the Game
This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!
Key Features
- Buy and sell goods across an array of towns and cities with dynamic prices
- Recruit mercenaries and heroes to help protect your caravan as you travel the bandit-haunted roads
- Upgrade your trade cart and horses to improve speed, carrying capacity and more
- Make decisions across a wide variety of randomised events in choose your own adventure style
- Command your mercenary protectors in turn-based battles against wild animals, hostile people and worse
- Complete missions to earn coins and reputation
- Unlock useful skills through leveling your character
- Gain reputation and bonuses through funding projects and constructions within each settlement
- Experience an exciting story campaign filled with intrigue and unlikely merchant heroics!
