# Merchants & Mercenaries

Summer DB entity ID: 31823d52\-655d\-4001\-bbae\-b007d5922839

Steam App ID: 546870

Merchants and Mercenaries is a hectic real\-time strategy that looks and feels like the board games you love, with none of the waiting\. Expand your empire, get resources and trade them, hire merchants to discover new riches or hire mercenaries to take it all\. There’s no one way to play, or even to win, but you’d better be fast\!    \- Advance through the Ages to build a castle first, then defend it\!    \- Quickly learn to read the lie of the land as the board is never the same twice\.    \- Build and upgrade farms, mines, quarries and lumberyards to expand your territory and gain resources\.    \- Trade resources on the open market \(sell when hot, buy when not\!\)\.    \- Hire merchants to discover new riches\.    \- Deploy a range of mercenaries to their best advantage\.    \- Attack strategic hexes that sever and destroy sections of your opponents’ empires for the most destruction possible\.    Online multiplayer coming soon to all your favorite devices so you can enjoy everything you love about social board games, anytime, anywhere\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Echidna Studios

- Publisher: Echidna Studios

- Release date: Nov 11, 2016

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Strategy, Early Access

- Categories: Single\-player, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/546870/ss\_696932cc2c45dd7461780ec6e74332ceab37a013\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478903984, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/546870/ss\_4367b901e7a8d8b99aacf6a5ec5a5b2c1a7f6e4d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478903984, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/546870/ss\_bbe606653f8923e2677d20704eb77ef0ab31ca0d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478903984, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/546870/ss\_63902195050af77f41a1c6709d94da3f5bfb1476\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478903984, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/546870/ss\_403b7f9f683bb8216e33e5216186e6f2c4c378a4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478903984, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/546870/ss\_3a3d217f06f4248fb0d9c89e8d4ce6574cfe4e88\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1478903984

- Price: 99 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 7

- Steam positive reviews: 4

- Steam negative reviews: 3

- Steam positive percentage: 57.142857142857146%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T15:45:45\.424668\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T15:45:47\.252906\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T15:45:46\.77591\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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