The Merchant's Guide to the Kingdom

The Merchant's Guide to the Kingdom

Bearplane · 2023 · RPG, Adventure, Simulation, Action RPG, Dungeon Crawler

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About The Merchant's Guide to the Kingdom

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Build and command your own guild of adventurers while shaping a living fantasy economy from your merchant shop, influencing quests, equipment, and the fate of heroes across the realm. Watch your world evolve as independent adventurers rise and fall, economies shift, and your strategic decisions ripple across the kingdom in this simulation-driven MMORPG manager where you decide the stakes—from hardcore permadeath to peaceful fishing.

A Living Simulated MMORPG World

Enter a living fantasy world where heroes travel, trade, fight, level, and pursue their goals. Watch towns grow, dungeons evolve, economies shift, and adventurers carve their own paths across the realm as you influence the world from the perspective of a Merchant and Guild Master, safe at his shop. Every decision you make contributes to a constantly evolving MMORPG-inspired simulation filled with opportunity, danger, and discovery.

Build a Guild Worth Remembering

Create and manage your own guild of adventurers, beginning with a loyal group of customizable officers who will follow your commands into the realm’s greatest dangers. Potentially even to their deaths. Recruit promising heroes from across the world, specialize their roles, equip them with powerful gear, and assemble parties capable of conquering deadly dungeons, world events, and large-scale raids. As your guild grows in strength and reputation, so too will its influence across the kingdom.

Shape the Economy and Guide the Realm

You are more than a guild master, you are a driving force behind the realm itself. Craft valuable equipment, upgrade resource networks, and post strategic quests that influence the actions of adventurers throughout the world. Encourage heroes toward unexplored regions, strengthen the economy of nearby settlements, and help shape the progression of the realm through careful planning and long-term strategy.

A World Driven by Adventure

Except for your Guild Officers, heroes throughout the kingdom act on their own ambitions, forming parties, accepting quests, exploring dangerous regions, and competing for fame, fortune, and survival. Some may rise to become legends known across the kingdom, while others fall during perilous expeditions. Through both triumph and failure, the world continuously evolves around the stories created by its adventurers and the choices you make along the way.

Choose Your Preferred Challenge

Tailor the experience to your preferred style of play with multiple gameplay options, including a more forgiving experience on Softcore, or a high-stakes Hardcore mode featuring permanent hero death. In harsher settings, every expedition carries meaningful risk, adding tension and long-term consequence to your decisions while rewarding careful preparation, strategy, and resource management. Or, just fish all day.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jun 1, 2026
I cracked and bought the game seeing the new UI upgrades and the tutorial revamp, So far I'm very happy with how the games progression flows. I love the art style as well, Although I wonder if a form of idle compensation for the time your shop runs independent of you playing it would be beneficial. I think this game is a worthwhile purchase with a hardworking team behind it.
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Recommended May 22, 2026
Absolutely love this game and playing from the perspective of what would typically be an NPC! The game does a good job of guiding you through getting started so that it quickly immerses you. Fun world to explore and a clever idea, def recommend!
2 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 26, 2026
Solid baseline, just needs improvements to the UI and more content
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Recommended Jun 9, 2026
A really well put together game for early development. i enjoyed the beautiful scenery yet simple gameplay. anyone who likes dnd would like this game. its very easy to play, low file size, no lag that i've experienced, while running it on a omen laptop. its not too complicated to understand, and a good game to capture your mind and enter that grinding levels state. overall, i loved playing this game, was a real joy to play a game that has developers that really put their best work in. for being such early development, im pleasantly shocked to see how good this game is, i expected big bugs or errors and glitches but i was relieved to find out that it runs smooth and i can rest assured this game has a delightful future ahead.
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Recommended May 30, 2026
This game is a whole new concept, and it has a lot of interaction with other players. It was clear how to play the game, and I look forward to my next quest! Thanks Devs! This one was worth waiting for!!
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Recommended May 21, 2026
This game has come a long way from early development - Especially regarding the UI. I love the art style and the team has been very attentive getting bugs squared away leading up to release. If you enjoy the idea of watching an RPG unfold in front of your eyes from a different perspective. You will LOVE the Merchants guide to the Kingdom.
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