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

Really great story, but there is a clear easiest play style (health, strength, agility), and many of the stats feel nearly useless, that goes for keep decorations and servants too. Though I can't say this doesn't make sense, I can say it restricts your play style. All in all it's a great game though, perhaps I'm splitting hairs. Ps. I've played other games presumably by the same person, and that is what I'm comparing to; if compared to most text based games, this game is above and beyond.

It's a pretty fun game at first. There's a few problems with it though. There are a lot of glitches and coding issues. For instance I once had negative soldiers in my army. each time I advanced to attack the number kept increasing. Then a lot of the events that are supposed to give you cash don't. Some of the purchasable items or personnel don't seem to do anything. Still was a good game for a few days

I would rate this game 5 stars if the combat and damaging events weren't so completely random. I can put every single stat I gain into agility to improve dodge and hit chance and yet I still miss often and get hit more often than I land hits. That isn't the deal breaker though, it's the ridiculous damage you take during travel. I took damage every single step of the way to one location, nothing you can do to stop it. Died three times in a row just traveling, lost all my progress. Nope.

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!