Merchant 64

This game is not fun at all, I expected an actual in game market but no, all you do is talk to people to buy an item they call rubbish and sell it for barelly any more than it cost you originally. this is not fun at all, i highly recommend watching a video of the game before making a pruchase.

This game should just be free. It's not even a demo. It's a concept. A fun concept with 64 graphics that could be develope (over years) into an actual Nintendo 64 game. But this is not enough for the game. Only buy it if you wanna support the dev. But this is not a game. Nor a demo... it's a concept of a game.

[i]Merchant 64[/i] is all nostalgia no depth... The incremental game of buy/sell quickly becomes stale. New items and towns do not change the gameplay loop in meaningful or interesting ways. The so-called "multiple endings" especially leave a sour taste. Sadly, there's a lot of untapped potential here, and overall, the game feels like a half-baked product. To top it all off, the "No Refunds?!" achievement feels like a slap in the face, as if the game developer intentionally made the game just long enough to waste your time and not get your money's worth.

10/10 art project, 0/10 video game. This just isn't really a video game, all of the joy of this game can be found in the trailer unfortunately.

I always hesitate to leave negative reviews on small games unless I have something constructive to say. Additionally I believe I bought this game for about $1. However, trying to play this on my Steamdeck was nearly impossible. Confusing UI with very little visual feedback to the point where I didn't know if I didn't even know if i was selecting something. It might be less perplexing with a mouse, but I bought the game because it preported to be playable with a controller. Once I realized how long it would take to get to the second area in the game, aka the area where you can finally start comparing the different prices (the main point of the game) I gave up. The visual style is charming but ultimately this feels more like a prototype that needs much more time in the oven.

Very light on gameplay. Frustrating slow grind.

This game doesn't aim to do much, which is nice... But it's just so barebones. The whole story can be shortened into 2 sentences, and the gameplay is basically just hoping to see number going up and checking trash until you can buy and sell more than trash. It's mindnumbingly repetitive and boring.

You found a Junk game! In all seriousness, the gameplay loop gets old FAST and I immediately regretted my purchase, but I got the game in a bundle so I guess I'm keeping it. I was expecting something along the vein of Animal Forest for N64, but within the first few minutes you realize how shallow this game is going to be. Needs a true N64 graphics mode, not just some garbage CRT filter, and it also needs less boring music. Also the only 3 items you can trade have such low-effort names. Junk? Stuff? Goods? Are you serious? If the dev wants to update the game and give it some more depth I'm all for it, but in it's current state, it's just a shallow nostalgia-grab that's not fun at all, I've gotten loads more fun out of the Cookie Clicker stock market minigame. Typos/Bugs: CashewBerg is sometimes spelled Chashewberg, and theres one other typo I'm forgetting about but maybe the dev can find it. Also there's a girl in the top right of Cashewberg you can just walk right through.