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Merchant of the Skies
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“It's okay. I got 20 hours out of it and I got all the achievements. One thumb up. On the positive side, this game has an actual ending. That is, once you complete the final quest to build the Botanical Garden, the game has an epilogue that tells you what all the major NPCs ended…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“Unironically an outstanding game. It is absolutely Grandpa-Core, the type of game an old man sits hunched over his laptop playing, while his family members walk past and shake their heads, wondering how someone could play something so tedious and redundant. It is quite literally…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“It's a cute little game. A bit on the short side (I finished campaign in 7 hours and I'm usually a slow player), but I think that's because, despite being a trading game, this game manages to not be super grindy. Progression from one stage to the next happens reasonably fast so…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Trading · Base-Building · Management · Exploration · Casual · Economy · Sandbox · Building · Strategy · 2D · Experimental · Cute (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 12 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: shader 3.0 supporting card (i.e. Intel HD Graphics 4000) DirectX: Version 9.0a Storage: 512 MB available space Additional Notes: DX9 (shader model 3.0) support