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A Merchant's Promise

Game Draft Studio · 2025-03-21

Steam

IndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 21, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Medieval Trading & Transport with Physics-Based Items. Start as a Worthless Merchant and work your way up as you carefully handle your goods through a Medieval World!

A Merchant's Promise is an Indie, Simulation and Early Access game released in 2025 for $9.99, with an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (87% of 297 reviews).

87%
positive of 307 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (57 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.1k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 307 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2025-11-07)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
474720252026Week of 2025-03-22: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-29: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-05: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-03: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-10: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-31: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-07: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-08: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-22: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-24: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-31: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-31: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-07: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-02-07: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-14: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-21: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-11: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-11: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-18: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-18: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-04: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$4.992025-03-212026-07-092025-03-21 — best price $5.992025-04-04 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-07 — best price $4.992025-11-15 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-01-29 — best price $7.992026-02-02 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $7.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-20 — best price $7.492026-04-27 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $7.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

3DFantasyPhysicsSandboxTradingLife SimMedievalStylizedSimulationExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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