Medieval economy simulator with true markets
- Build, produce, transport and trade
- True markets for all products: supply and demand drives prices
- Cooperate, or compete, with other players, near or far
Produce and refine products to fulfil market demand
Play the market or control it
Bleeding edge 11th century pixel graphics
Track profits and cashflow while building a business empire
Mercantile competition
Mercatorio is an economy simulation game set in medieval times. Players interact through economic competition and cooperation, chasing financial success and, ultimately, prestige.
Production and logistics are core elements in Mercatorio, and will be recognizable to players familiar town-building or economy simulation games, like the games of the Anno and Victoria series, with chains of production buildings and production methods refining raw materials into more valuable finished products, and ships or carts bringing raw materials in or shipping the finished products to their markets.
What sets Mercatorio apart is the mercantile environment with actual market prices, determined exclusively by the supply and demand of the market participants.
In addition, and maybe in contrast to this, Mercatorio strives to simulate the medieval economy as historically accurate as possible, with buildings, products and production methods all modeled after the activities of the era. Put this together and you get a game with a lot of depth and possibilities to explore, offering an interesting and challenging experience.
Live game view
Live view of one of the many towns in the world of Mercatorio; each one with a full range of mercantile exchanges trading scores of products and services at prices determined by local supply and demand.
Seasons
The game is season-based and resets at the end of each season. Season 5 runs from September 1st until November 30th.
Season 5 worldmap
Blog and updates
New features and quality-of-life improvements will be added throughout the season, with the major ones announced on facebook and the blog
Trial, pricing and purchase
When joining the game you get a 48 hour free trial.
After this you need to obtain a season- or week-pass to play. As the season progresses the cost of a season pass for the remainder will gradually get reduced.
Buy the pass here
Activation can be found in-game, under Settings.
Feature roadmap
The long list of features and improvements on the drawing board. As well as some continuous efforts.
transportation costs for delivery of goods into town centerguides on how to set up basic production and trade routes- a lot more buildings, products, and production methods
clay pit and ceramic kilnhunting lodge, hides and leatherhjell, vignoble, smokerydairy, butter and pastieshoney, wax and candles
- more historical context added throughout the game
region specific production methods, like vinyards in south, stockfish in northbuilding purchase and saleimproved travel UI for ships and cartsability to move to other towns- unknown territory and exploration
notifications for important events and issuesdeeper and more influential skill system, unique production methods unlocked at the higher levels- mastery of mercantile skill allows trade presence / warehouses in other towns
- production bonuses from production on higher grade resources
rework household sustenance to give more control to the playerfree-form binding contracts with other players (akin to church deliveries), monetary or prestige penalties for breachesaccess to more statistics and graphs about production performance, trade, and state of the town- town culture mirroring the skills of players, town or region wide bonuses, unlocking unique products
- manors: ability to found and build in an independent domain anywhere on the map
- herd management for animals in production buildings
- improved and varied bots
- impactful roads
- seasons, harvest times for crops
- more crops, crop rotation, multi parameter soil quality
- weather variation affecting harvests
Sign up to play Mercatorio
Season 5 starts on September 1st and runs until November 30th.
Meet other players at the discord server, where you can negotiate trades and find ways to cooperate.