Merchant Life

After playing continuously for only 15 or so minutes some kind of adds completely take over sound by blasting off in the background, even if playing music from another app. During this time it locks up the entire device, even closing the app becomes difficult. Im legitimately worried playing this game will cause damage to my device, all because these greedy developers can’t figure out add integration in a way that is not just sabotage. Its too bad too, because while simple, the gameplay is engaging and fun and the pixel art is charming. You obtain recipes and task adventurers to gather materials. Each town has a different set of materials, but selling can be done mostly anywhere. You can level up Hp which is used as stall stamina by selling at your shop. You can unlock more game features and recipes by fulfilling merchant guild tasks, which are bulk turn ins of goods. I only played for a few hours, but it’s a great game without the glitchy adds, too bad really.

I really enjoy it! Especially after re-reincarnation x) The only problem I have is something to do with whatever is running in the background, I think…? The game can only run for so long before it starts lagging badly, then gets a little glitchy RIGHT before it closes itself. When that happens it does something to everything else on my phone, like, the flashlight is unresponsive, other apps stall on a blank page, my phone background goes black. Sometimes I turn the screen off and it won’t respond to tapping or button clicking for a good 30 seconds. It’s really weird, and I don’t know what causes it. I really want to keep playing, though, that’s how much I love it! So as long as it never gets worse than that I’ll keep playing >_> (without that issue, absolutely 5🌟)

The little pixel graphics are charming and the game provides enough depth not to be boring. There is never a required video ad, which is a nice change. Overall it’s a fun game doing exactly what I want it to do. Minor complaints: -I detest the little ad strip at the bottom of the screen. It is interfering with the immersion, which is what prevented a 5 star review and almost resulted in a 3. -The tutorial is a little lacking, but it isn’t too hard to figure things out. - The outskirts do not act consistently. One town is every day in game and the rest seem to follow real time 🤷‍♀️