Merchant of Bohemia

This is not a game. This is a demo version. You can only create your person and drive back and forth between, at least at level 4, still only 3 villages. You cannot buy a bigger cart. You can upgrade your men. There isn't even an inn to stay in. You simply have a button to pass the time until the market opens. They didn't even put this in early access. The lego-like figures and lack of features speak of an absolute minimum of programming effort put into this. That upsets me, because the concept is FANTASTIC. It has very real potential. I want to encourage the devs to put this into early access and work on adding features. I would gladly change my review. In its current state, it's not really worth the 3.19€ that I gave for it.

Game is fun... for the first 20 minutes or so. The game is just very dull, not much to do so far, would love to see some exciting new mechanics added to this game, but for it's price the game wasn't a total disappointment, I just think it could go further mechanics-wise.

A very enjoyable game to pass the time. Traveling between cities, buying and selling goods, and trying to ensure the safety of these goods against bandits on the roads is also enjoyable. I recommend it to everyone.

This is not a new idea but I suppose that the location has merit as it reminds people of a better game. The basic gameplay loop isn't bad but it is very simplistic. The only thing this game has going for it as a real positive, if you can call it that, is the difficulty. Which is achieved by making the caravan guards really necessary and yet outrageously expensive. You will spend more money on guards than your goods and while your pprfits from trading will be dyynamic (more on that later) the cost of your guards is constant. Banditry isn't a rare occurrence by any means, so you need them. But honestly, they are worse bandits. You have to pay them a fee to hire them. You hae to pay them every 'day', you have to ppay to ugrade them to make them stronger and then you have to pay them more per day. You get nothing back when they die,. The only saving grace is that when you kill bandits, you will sometimes get a piece of gear you can sell. It never covers the cost of your guards, but it hels. I was spending around 2,000 Gr per day on my guards. My wagon could only hold 480 KG of stuff and the average cargo weighs 15-20 kg. You make 5 Gr pprofit on average, so you get about 100 Gr in pro…

It’s nothing more than a poor man’s copy of Caravaneer 1 with a higher price tag, crappy stylized graphics, and poorly designed level progression to pay for a vanity project by a first time developer. I suppose calling it a vanity project is a bit of exaggeration on my end. But when you compare it to other first developers’ first game on Steam, which you can easily find so many of them in any genre doesn’t seem like an exaggeration after all. They need to pay the bills is no excuse for developing a substandard game with superior games on the market that were released decades ago. If you desire a game like this any of the games of the Caravaneer series will do. The first one is free and is available on most websites with a bit of fiddling to make it playable. The second one improves the first game’s formula and is on Steam if you want to support the creator. It’s also cheap like this game, but has more engaging gameplay with a choose your own storyline to boot. Go get it and forget about this waste of time.

There's very little to do here.