Life of a Mercenary

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Contains adsIn-app purchases

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

the game was really good... until they decided to make you have to pay to actually enjoy the game (having to wait several minutes just sitting there waiting for the timer to be done) and constantly try to pressure you into buying it on top of also adding ads to the game. Like seriously, I understand and want to support indie devs, but when it comes to monetization you gotta pick one or the other—not both. There's a reason why we don't like EA, and y'all are walking a thin line.

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

What’s new

You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Life of a Mercenary", please leave us a written review. It really helps!