Welcome New Players!
I wanted to provide a brief intro to the game, its status and where it's going:
What is the "goal" of the game?
A Merchant's Promise is about exploring and handling items in which you travel and trade with limited prompts, menus, and UI (Ui can now be toggled as well), while being paired up with some light survival elements. There is no specific goal or end game. For those that love to collect, travel, explore, organize, survive...you should feel right at home!
The main dynamic of the game is your Merchant Status...and trying to earn the best reputation you can.
The end goal for this Merchant Status is to be difficult to maintain and constantly affected by what you trade, where you stay, the quality of the items you deal in, and your behaviors. This will continue to be improved.
What is the current status of this Early Access?
There are currently 3 towns and a prison to travel between and trade (Or even buy a house), There are several items to buy and sell that as of the current Beta, are unique to each town.
There is only the 1 Cart for now, but more will be added along with upgrades. The carts wheels can break and be replaced.
Villagers have limited dialogue, and there is a light crime system implemented.
Most items can be dirty, damaged, and broken that you handle.
What does the near future of the game look like?
Progress is fairly quick. I work on this project approx 60-65hrs a week as I learn and develop the game.
There is currently a Beta being tested by those that enjoy doing so, and that is about 7 weeks ahead of the Regular Version. There is no password to join the Beta, so if you would like to get an idea of the pace of progress within your 2 hour Refund window, feel free to opt in and try the Beta!
Priorities for the immediate future is bug fixes for the beta and merging the updates to the regular version within the week. Afterwards, map updates, adding another town, and diving into including another cart, upgrades and some more shops. Then more life into the game world.
As always I'm in Discord should you have any questions! Thank you again for your support and look forward to hearing your feedback.