Mercantia

Mercantia is a turn-based trading strategy game for 1 to 4 players. Buy goods where they are cheap, sell them where they are dear, ship cargo across the world and grow your company into a trading empire. Play against AI rivals or share one computer with friends (hotseat).

This free version is a complete game and will keep receiving updates. Comments, bug reports and suggestions are very welcome!

How it works

Every country has its own prices, tariffs and events. Each round you decide what to buy, sell, ship or invest in, then the world moves on: prices shift, embargoes appear, crises hit the markets and your rivals make their moves. The player with the sharpest sense for timing wins.

Choose how the game ends

• Capital target - be the first to reach a net worth goal.
• Survival - the game ends after a set number of turns, and whoever goes bankrupt first loses.
• Rivals' bankruptcy - the last merchant standing wins.
• Turn limit - the richest player after a set number of turns wins.

You can combine these conditions before each game.

What you'll manage

• Market - 12 goods in 10 countries, with price charts and tariffs.
• Transport - ship cargo by road, rail, sea or air, pick a carrier and insure valuable shipments.
• Bank - take loans, keep savings and open term deposits.
• Warehouses - store goods around the world and expand your capacity.
• Government contracts - fulfil special orders for extra profit.
• Player trade - post listings or send one-on-one proposals to other players.
• World events - wars, embargoes, harvests, booms and financial crises shake the markets.

Features

• 1 to 4 players: humans and AI rivals in three difficulty levels (easy, medium, hard).
• Built-in tutorial that teaches the basics in minutes.
• 5 save slots.
• Fullscreen mode, sound and music settings.
• Available in 6 languages: English, Polski, Deutsch, Francais, Italiano, Espanol.
• Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

What's next

Everything you can play here stays free. A paid edition is planned for the future, building on this game with a lot more content. Ideas on the table (nothing is final, no release date yet):

• More goods, more countries and new regions to trade in.
• Scenarios and campaigns with their own rules and goals, such as the Great Depression of 1929, the Gold Rush or the Silk Road.
• Your own companies and production, a stock exchange with futures and short selling, and rival AI merchants with distinct personalities.
• Online multiplayer, statistics, achievements, daily challenges and a scenario editor.

If you'd like to see any of this, or have other ideas, tell us in the comments!

Made with Godot Engine by JDM Team.