# This Merchant Life

Summer DB entity ID: 9cea53bd\-0568\-4562\-892a\-adc6ba6a9f0c

Steam App ID: 666730

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\!

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Inexplicable Games

- Publisher: Inexplicable Games

- Release date: Sep 6, 2019

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, RPG, Strategy

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_d57d3494dd63eb9e412bc3dc7bc266b6c00fa559\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_4982c525ca407bf0198ce58374c7e2ee2614a775\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_dc337f6b7ff1914dd8809153956f434125f14894\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_1d4ba1a5bfa8aa3823f51b2b2e653c6af9cee7a3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_7b973995bc687019cf63bf9d0c05c388dfe08fb2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_f7922662fe59e5e922db469a0dd2c324cd3e7ffc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/666730/ss\_59a24ee96de4f47cc6297914ed2cbeb0be74306b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1788477043

- Price: 1099 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 186

- Steam positive reviews: 140

- Steam negative reviews: 46

- Steam positive percentage: 75.26881720430107%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/9cea53bd-0568-4562-892a-adc6ba6a9f0c/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/9cea53bd-0568-4562-892a-adc6ba6a9f0c/player-metrics?days=7)

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\-23T00:17:35\.268735\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T00:17:36\.517737\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T00:17:36\.314379\+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.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/666730/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/9cea53bd-0568-4562-892a-adc6ba6a9f0c)