Life of a Mercenary

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About this game

Lead a mercenary company seeking fame and fortune. Be honorable and help defend the kingdom or take contracts to those who pay the most. Rise to the top of the mercenary chain in this medieval story based around the events of The Great Tournament.

"Life of a Mercenary" is a 338,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Philip Kempton, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

• Play as male or female mercenary.
• An open world adventure taking place in a medieval setting.
• Unique combat and leveling system makes every game unique.
• Multiple story lines, hidden quests, and endings.
• Checkpoint system allows you to save your progress and restore to a previous point
• Choose to be an honorable or fight for whoever pays the most gold.
• Participate in war campaigns helping other nations fight off enemies.

Ratings and reviews

A thrilling text based adventure which gives plenty of options that contribute to its replayability. Unlike many other text based games, the entire game is free. Which is a big plus. I got several hours of playability and I will get several more. The characters are likeable, the plots are interesting and it has varying scenarios (which are also free). My only criticism is that the grammar and spelling isn't always correct, but nonetheless it is still completely playable.

I've played the game before and it was decently fun then, even with its grammar errors. However, it seems recently they've added in a little caveat that after each chapter you've got to wait at least 5 minutes then watch an ad to continue, unless you want to pay 7 bucks to go a little faster, yeah no, I'm good.

This game has a good concept and has the potential to be great. However, it's poorly written and full of grammatical errors making it seem unpolished. I imagine the developer was in a rush to release it. The RNG in the combat seems terrible (or I'm just extremely unlucky) - I've missed my attacks 5-6x in a row several times. It can make the most well-stat character lose simply because you can't land a hit whilst your opponent keeps damaging you.

What’s new

Fixed a bug (for real, this time) where the app could lose progress when the app goes into the background. If you enjoy "Life of a Mercenary", please leave us a written review. It really helps!