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A Merchant's Promise
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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Great game fun concept and one of the best physics-based inventory systems, I love that this game does not hold your hand, BUYERS BEWARE: This game is Extremely buggy in its current state, you cannot actually break the clams open, I tried for at least half an hour with multiple…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played“Fun game but there's not a lot of content at the moment. I'd recommend waiting for more updates before buying for $10”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Nice walking simulator. It's a bit lacking in content so far, but updates are consistent.”
— a player, Steam review · 34 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch 037.7.1
I realized that while I reduced the penalty for carrying heavy things, I did not reduce this penalty for when you equip a backpack. All this to say, you will be able to move quicker with a full backpa
Patch 037.7
Horses: Tap to Increase/Decrease speed. No longer hold Adjusted Horse Stamina Fixed Resting prompt remaining after packing tent if standing close Raised height of Starting Cart from the ground Adjuste
Patch 037.6
I'm specifically looking for any issues with items affecting your carts! Should that happen feel free to reach out in Discord! Unfortunately due to this update changing the way saved carts are handled
Patch 037 Improvements
Thanks to everyone picking up the update and immediately giving feedback and quickly passing on the issues you encounter! This is specifically why I take a pause after pushing updates just to be on st
Patch 037.5
- Starting Cart is added back (though heavily damaged) - Stamina will not be prevented from regenerating while carrying things - Movement Speed reduction while carrying things has been made less sever
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Physics · Immersive Sim · Medieval · Life Sim · Exploration · Sandbox · Transportation · Perma Death · Trading · Walking Simulator · 3D · First-Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10, 64 Bit Processor: Intel i7 Dual Core Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia 1660 / AMD Radeon RX 580 or equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible