The Strongest Guild vs Merchant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Strongest Guild
Manage a guild, recruit members, and complete quests to become the strongest. Gather resources, build facilities, and defeat monsters to achieve your goal. Expand your guild and unlock new opportunities.
- Guild management
- Quest completion
- Monster battles
- Resource gathering
- Member recruitment
- Facility building
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Aim for the strongest guild! Guild management simulation game. You became the new Guild Master . Aim for the strongest guild to defeat The Devil! · Clear quests and gain rewards! Defeat monsters to gain more rewards! · Gather food from the forest to supply your guild members! Save money by foraging! · Recruit new guild members! Find chance encounters at the bar. · Expand the guild! More guild members means more quest rewards! · Build convenient facilities for the guild. Find the right expansion for your guild. · Buy items from the shop! Many convenient items and services for sale. · Unlock more facilities by completing quests!
Merchant
Embark on a fantasy adventure where you manage a guild, send heroes on quests, and craft valuable items. Trade with customers, gather resources, and collaborate with friends in this unique RPG experience.
- Guild management
- Hero quests
- Item crafting
- Customer sales
- Resource gathering
- Online multiplayer
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Blending together traditional RPG systems, management mechanics, and a fantasy overworld, Merchant Guilds aims to reimagine the traditional mobile RPG. Play with your friends in a Guild as you send heroes on quests, craft equipment from your winnings, sell items to customers, and send workers out to gather more materials. Including online multiplayer functionality and developed by a team that is focused on this game for the foreseeable future
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Merchant at 4.4 against The Strongest Guild's 3.4. Merchant also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (53 vs 8). The Strongest Guild's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Merchant sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. The Strongest Guild asks for nothing beyond the download.
Merchant holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merchant has 53 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of The Strongest Guild's written reviews are positive against 50% of Merchant's.
The Strongest Guild ships an update every 3 months, Merchant every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Strongest Guild | Merchant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (8 ratings) | 4.4 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 410 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yukihiro Uesugi | Retora Game Studios |
Customer experience
The Strongest Guild
Merchant
In-app purchases
The Strongest Guild
No in-app purchases
Merchant
- Extra Daily Challenge$0.99
- Extra Daily Challenge Upg #2$0.99
- Hero Slots Unlock$1.99
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- Additional Inventory Slots$1.99
- Second Inventory Upgrade$1.99
- Extra Crafting Slot$3.99
- Extra Hero Loadouts$9.99
- Ad Free Mode$9.99
- Unlock All Upgrades$29.99
- Unlock All Upgrades$34.99
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