Merchant Life User Reviews

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Fun and simple

Good old fun with pixels with a dash of merchant og sim. Perfect time waster and grinder

Great but causes phone issues

Great game, love it. However, my iPhone 15 overheats, glitches and crashes causing me to need reboot. Fix these issues and I would play it to the end. Until then, gonna stop at Rank B.

Fun, but not worth the issues

Made my phone exit out and even restart while running the app. Without the issues, it’s a great, cute little game, but it’s just not worth it.

Hidden Gem... but will overheat your phone lol

If you like simple merchant games, are able to stick through the seemingly arbitrary crafting recipes and keep playing through the feeling of futility and repetition, you'll (eventually) be surprised by the nuanced game design!

It pushes and pulls you to learn the game and deeper mechanics driving the economy, doesn't bombard you with ads (all ads are 100% optional to watch for bonuses), and each time you stumble onto a gameplay mechanic you feel a little thrill of excitement as new possibilities arise. To be fair, these mechanics are usually very simple and obvious ones, but the game doesn't hold your hand so you just don't notice them until you think about it. Or maybe I'm just dum haha.

But this game is simple, repetitive and fun. And it does NOT do that crazy exponential growth thing where you go from selling 5 gold items to 5 trillion gold items within a day like other games do. You really have to earn your money and think about which upgrades to use it on.

The only complaints are that it heats up my phone (???) even when "Benshin Timpact" doesn't, so there's clearly some optimisation issues going on in the background, and the UI could definitely use a lot of work to remove some of the tedium.
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fun, solid game

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🌟)
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Great!

Love this game so much! It’s very relaxing to play❤️

Decent game but

Your most recent updates have caused the game to start lagging very badly to the point where my phone continues lagging even after I go back to the home screen.

Charming

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 🤷‍♀️
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Village Beginning On Roids

I loved a village beginning but it gets boring eventually. This game is like a sequel but has so much more and variety. It doesn’t have in game purchases annoying you and when you get mugged by some thieves you’re glad to watch a video instead of lose half your stuff. Great game, excellent balance, keep it up!
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Very addictive and fun

This is a surprising gem

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