Merchants of Kaidan is a challenging Windows Phone game that combines the elements of a trading game with a touch of Role Playing Game elements. You begin game play with an empty cart, a purse of gold and silver coins and the challenge of roaming the world searching for deals that you can turn into a profit.
The game is a universal app and ordinarily, Merchants of Kaidan is priced at $3.99 in the Windows Phone and $14.99 in the Windows Store. If the game sounds interesting, now is the time to act because through the myAppFree campaign you can pick up the game free.
While Merchants of Kaidan is not a fast-paced action game, it does have its fair share of challenges, colorful characters and quality graphics. Key features of Merchants of Kaidan include:
- The Windows Phone game has over one hundred quests that span four story lines - one story line where you are avenging your father's death and three side stories.
- A set of random events that influence your journeys. A storm on the sea, attack by dragons, highway robbery and many, many more.
- Three types of transportation is available to move your goods that include roads, the open seas and flight. Each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
- Advisers are available for hire to council you on a variety of issues such as short cuts on the roads, how to deal with bandits and more.
- Four seasons of the year that influence the prices of goods, open some paths for travel and block the others. They also impact the way the game looks with each city having a distinct look at different times of the year.
- Random blessings and curses that influence your statistics. They in turn affect how well you conduct business.
- The game is driven by a complex, market fluctuation algorithm that include variables such as demand, supply, seasons of the year, localization of the city and random events like droughts or rat infestation.
In just exploring the game this morning, it comes across as an entertaining, challenging title that will test your skills at market prediction, patience and luck.
Merchants of Kaidan is a universal game that is available for both Windows 8 devices and Windows Phone, unfortunately not for low-memory models. The Windows Phone version normally runs $3.99 and $14.99 for the Windows 8 version (both having trial versions).
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