Mercatorio

Note: The listed price is for one week of access, to try out the game. Full season passes are sold in-game.

Mercatorio is a medieval economy simulator with real market mechanics. Prices in each town are exclusively determined by the supply and demand of you and the other market participants. Build, produce, transport and trade, in cooperation or competition with other players.

The game runs in the browser (also work on mobile) at hourly ticks with players interacting through economic competition and cooperation, chasing financial success and, ultimately, prestige. The current season (Season 2) started on September 14th and will run until January 19th (2025).

Production and logistics are core elements in Mercatorio, and will be recognizable to players familiar town-building or economy simulation games, like the great 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 is new in Mercatorio is a mercantile environment where prices and product availability are determined exclusively by the supply and demand of other market participants, akin to how modern mercantile exchanges function.

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, hopefully offering an interesting and challenging experience.

Read the introduction and other articles on IndieDB or go straight to the homepage.

A purchase on itch.io gives you a trial-week key, which should be entered into the game-page after login in to active your account.