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A Merchant's Promise

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

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!

What works

  • 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

Things to keep in mind

  • 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

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Critter Cove

  • Blossom: The Seed of Life

  • Lifeslide

  • Big Hops

  • Cozy Keep: Farm, Craft, Manage

  • Poi

Less status-driven

Games that feels like A Merchant's Promise but with less focus on status and recognition

  • No Place Like Home

  • Mika and The Witch's Mountain

  • Zefyr: A Thief's Melody

  • Garden of the Sea (VR)

  • My Little Blacksmith Shop

  • Above Snakes

More violent

Games that feels like A Merchant's Promise but with more combat and destruction

  • Wild West and Wizards

  • The Bloodline

  • SurrounDead

  • Gedonia

  • Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore

  • The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker

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

Last update: 21/08/2026