# Life of a Mercenary

Summer DB entity ID: b67ab5f2\-b841\-4354\-bd14\-cadbbc1a4845

Steam App ID: 1245820

Lead a mercenary company seeking fame and fortune\. Be honorable and help defend the kingdom or take contracts to those who pay the most\. Rise to the top of the mercenary chain in this medieval story based around the events of The Great Tournament\.  "Life of a Mercenary" is a 338,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Philip Kempton, where your choices control the story\. It's entirely text\-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.     Play as male or female mercenary\.    An open world adventure taking place in a medieval setting\.    Unique combat and leveling system makes every game unique\.    Multiple story lines, hidden quests, and endings\.    Checkpoint system allows you to save your progress and restore to a previous point    Choose to be an honorable or fight for whoever pays the most gold\.    Participate in war campaigns helping other nations fight off enemies\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Hosted Games

- Publisher: Hosted Games

- Release date: Jun 4, 2020

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG

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

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1245820/ss\_c532ac2b6f429374549ea0d8aa502b502d3a8f82\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734034533, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1245820/ss\_1b5f2ee81cd6866bbce062ebad4ddf36b318d200\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734034533, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1245820/ss\_044eec7bd7c9c9630c1e9f1eb68047af43cff26e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734034533, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1245820/ss\_4b05624dc59a3817c355167d93877f867fd2720e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734034533, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1245820/ss\_361df9bdfd033f775458907779e969b51920555c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734034533, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1245820/ss\_d77411792710f4315d49af73a4a0aea0c7d5a717\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734034533

- Price: 699 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 14

- Steam positive reviews: 12

- Steam negative reviews: 2

- Steam positive percentage: 85.71428571428571%

- 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/b67ab5f2-b841-4354-bd14-cadbbc1a4845/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/b67ab5f2-b841-4354-bd14-cadbbc1a4845/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\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:04:52\.491971\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:04:54\.810647\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:04:54\.487641\+00:00

Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/1245820/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/1245820/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=1245820","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/1245820"\},"price":"2026\-09\-24T19:04:52\.491971\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-24T19:04:52\.491971\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-24T19:04:54\.810647\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-24T19:04:54\.487641\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"3f413ab2\-71b7\-429e\-8cdd\-a237c433a03f","catalog":"7b0ebac5\-a934\-45ca\-986b\-002204d2dac0","details":"77c2a53b\-0dba\-4abc\-89b8\-91d0939b6bf9","players":"f810e982\-0b82\-4816\-8e57\-7412d49b1c32","reviews":"0ed78bbc\-fa19\-4585\-ae79\-9f087ae0ed47"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\}

Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"b67ab5f2\-b841\-4354\-bd14\-cadbbc1a4845","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

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/1245820/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/b67ab5f2-b841-4354-bd14-cadbbc1a4845)