Indie · April 17, 2020

Merchant of the Skies (2020)

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About the game In Merchant of the Skies you're the captain of an airship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade empire in the clouds! Merchant of the Skies is a trading game with light base-building and tycoon elements. You start off as a captain of a small cloudship and work your way towards establishing your own trade company. Merchant of the skies is an experimental game: it does not have a distinct genre, but tries to capture the feeling of traveling the world and establishing your own company. That means we try to incorporate exploration, base building, trading and some minor rpg elements into the game. Features Become a trader! Find the best trade routes and profit from them Discover the world! Travel between flying isles and face different encounters Sandbox gameplay: do what you want at your own pace Gain experience and become more savvy when it comes to trading, then start your own goods production Establish trade routes to transport and sell goods without your direct involvement Get rich and build your own mansion from more than 200 different building blocks Merchant of the Skies offers you a 6-8 hours campaign where you can help different characters and restore the world to its former glory, as well as a sandbox mode where you can forget about the plot and focus on building your own company, establishing caravan routes and developing your mansion.

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Trading · 205
  • Base-Building · 191
  • Management · 187
  • Exploration · 187
  • Casual · 186
  • Economy · 178
  • Sandbox · 167
  • Building · 155
  • Strategy · 150
  • 2D · 150
  • Experimental · 148
  • Cute · 139
  • Relaxing · 133
  • Steampunk · 128
  • Procedural Generation · 124

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.2k Steam reviewsTop 91% in Indie
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 65%
Engagement hours4 h averageTop 88% for session depth among Indie

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (8)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Thai
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

4h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

2h

Typical completion time

Achievements

12

Steam unlocks available

Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 2.2k reviews

1.9k positive · 303 negative

Curator recommendations

1.4k

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateApr 17, 2020
DeveloperColdwild Games
Base price$8.99
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksSupport · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

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