Medieval Trading & Transport with Physics-Based Items. Start as a Worthless Merchant and work your way up as you carefully handle your goods through a Medieval World!
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For any questions feel free to ask in Discord!
The Tutorial is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED even if having played the demo (now removed due to age) as there are differences.
A Merchant's Promise features No Inventory & Physics-based Inspired gameplay. You are in full control of the item you handle from the time you pick them up until you put them down...or throw them.
Your Merchant Status is everything and will determine how easily you can adjust your prices to make the most profit. There is also a Permanent Death option for those that like more risk.
Starting as a lowly Merchant you can eventually earn your way to a King's Merchant through trading as you experience:
Item Loss
Weather
Light survival elements (hunger, thirst, health, and stamina)
A part of the fun is in the discovery of something new. Whether an area, shop, event, or even something as small as a road sign that helps you find your way!
That is the intention why A Merchant's Promise uses:
Limited Menus and UI's as possible...and still trying to be reduced.
No "Objectives" or "Tasks" will pop up telling you what to do and how to do it.
You must Explore, Talk, Read, and Interact with things to learn about the world you play in!
...did I mention the Main Game Tutorial is strongly encouraged?
The Game World - I am working hard to bring more elements of "life" and "depth" into the game as current features are also tested by those of you that play the Beta Version.
Consistent & Reliable gameplay - Physics games are quirky and a lot of adjustments are always being made
Performance - No one wants a 47GB game download that gets 12FPS.
Gets the bugs out - I handle these through the Discord Reporting (Link on Store Page or In Game) as soon as possible with a ticket system so you can stay up-to-date on your issue's progress.
Thank you for taking the time to visit and I look forward to providing you with a great product and fun challenge!
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Languages: English
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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The game is great!! I love testing my greed and stuffing my cart with as much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as possible even if it sometimes ends up in me recollecting everything in some random place
good game
Good trading game that fills my trading desires.
It's in an early state, but helmed by a solo dev who geniuinely cares and is pretty spirited; you can see his progress and experiments on his socials and he has good design ideas and concepts. He's likely just getting the space to put time into the project and it might be worth waiting for a big update or two in coming months. What is here lacks definition and clear direction, and is hamstrung on occasion by game-breaking bugs that seem to become more likely over the length of a save. I haven't been too affected by those myself. From what I can tell these issues are being addressed with map improvements, new storage methods, and an improved tutorial system. But it also has a warm personality, is remarkably simple once you get an understanding of it, and the coming updates seem set to really build the experience. For the cozy and competent visual experience, passionate dev, and promising updates I would recommend this game both short and long-term to patient would-be merchants, especially at a reasonable price.
very relaxing
This is one of the most unusual games I have ever played. But one of the most remarkable and unique ones I have ever played. The graphics are some how oddly reminiscent of some medieval time romance novel. The npcs are endearing and well designed. I love how the food natural spoils and rots. Items can be damaged to the point of no existence, or slight bang ups cause some damage in the travel. Freaking so cute I am in love.
always being updated highly recommend
Really enjoy this game, been following the development for a while and find myself enjoying ramping up my trading, going back and forth between the few towns. Picked mushrooms, sold those, bought cheese, traveled to another town via scenic route, sold cheese, bought health potions, traveled back, sold those, bought fish, traveled via kings rode, upgraded cart, sold fish, bought more cheese, bought a house. Very relaxing & rewarding to get better & better trades. Excited foe the future with horses & new areas!
I've been enjoying this game for a minute now, I remember seeing the beginning of it in a video. Went and got the demo and then early access, after looking back I can see how much it has changed and it's wonderful. I look forward to future development. (also I cannot for the life of me find the discord, the link provided in the game menu is invalid)
Absolutely wonderful game, it really does everything it says and stays faithful to itself, the dev is amazing and listens to us and fixing things quickly. why wouldn't you try this game, it's so fun, worst case you refund it, but I think you'll enjoy it
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