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A Merchant's Promise

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

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Quick resume

Physics-Based Medieval Trading & Transport Simulator. Start as a Worthless Merchant and work your way up as you carefully handle and transport your goods through a stylized Medieval World!

Global score

87/100

Genres

Indie, Simulator, Early Access

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Outsiders

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Cozy Keep: Farm, Craft, Manage

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  • Escape Goat 2

If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Escapism

    The Stronghold Collection

  • Competition

    MergeCrafter

  • Cooperation

    Driver® Parallel Lines

Pros

  • Unique physics-based trading and cart management
  • Relaxing and immersive medieval atmosphere
  • Active and responsive developer
  • Engaging progression and customization
  • Good value for price and frequent updates

Cons

  • Early access with limited content and bugs
  • Some controls and mechanics can be confusing
  • Sparse world and minimal social features
  • Occasional frustrating physics glitches
  • Lack of clear direction or tutorial information

Analysis

Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Survival, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

How to use the graph
Similar games map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
  • Hover a dot for a quick preview; click to compare it in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

Motivations

  • Autonomy
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Competence
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Competition

    Game with the same Competition vibe

    -4

    "Focus is on personal progression and pacing without competitive or ranked elements."

    Capsule for MergeCrafter MergeCrafter

    "Focus is on personal progression and trading at own pace without competitive or ranked elements."

  • Continuation
    4

    No nearest game available

  • Cooperation

    Game with the same Cooperation vibe

    -5

    "Game is primarily single-player with no cooperative multiplayer or teamwork elements."

    Capsule for Driver® Parallel Lines Driver® Parallel Lines

    "Game is primarily single player with no cooperative multiplayer or teamwork features."

  • Creativity
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Domination

    Game with the same Domination vibe

    -5

    "No evidence of exerting control or superiority over others; interactions are individual and non-confrontational."

    Capsule for House Flipper House Flipper

    "No evidence of exerting control or superiority over others; interactions are individual and non-confrontational."

  • Escapism

    Game with the same Escapism vibe

    4

    "Players use the game to relax, enjoy medieval fantasy, and escape real-life stress through immersive gameplay."

    Capsule for The Stronghold Collection The Stronghold Collection

    "Players enjoy relaxing, immersive medieval trading fantasy as a form of stress relief and distraction."

  • Expectation
    -4

    No nearest game available

  • Experimenting
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Exploration
    2

    No nearest game available

  • Expression
    3

    No nearest game available

  • Fantasy
    4

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  • Fellowship
    -4

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  • Growth
    3

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  • Health
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Idle
    -3

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  • Intimacy
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Leadership
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Progression
    4

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  • Relaxation
    4

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  • Sensation
    2

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  • Status
    2

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  • Story
    2

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  • Strategy
    3

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  • Thrill
    1

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  • Value
    4

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  • Violence
    -5

    No nearest game available

  • Survival
    2

    No nearest game available

Last update: 23/05/2026