Galactic Merchant is sci-fi business simulator (aka space tycoon game). Starting from small startup with single cargo ship you can grow your company to intergalactic monopoly.
To do so, you could trade, prospect, produce goods, smuggle, rob, give bribes, engage in politics, save lives and use many other options.
During the game you will learn many economical concepts and built-in calculation sheet will help you to use them in practice.
Each planet is unique market and all of the markets are interdependent.
All of them are influenced by your decisions, actions of other market players as well as events, which happen all the time.
The economic conditions are dynamic and you have to adapt in order to be profitable.
You can achieve your strategic goals by growing company assets: ships, factories and personnel.
Not always more means simply better - with upgrades you can get better margins on your trades and make a good profit even on lower trade volume.
At some point your company may be too big to mange by yourself alone. In such case you can hire managers and directors to run parts of your company on your behalf. However, you still bear responsibility for company and you need to evaluate your leadership team and make changes to keep up to speed.
Still want more?
At the moment you become intergalactic corporation you will be able to acquire other companies to grow even faster.
There are multiple options for you to make profit over time.
You need to balance short-term and long-term strategies. What brings money now, may have bad consequences in future.
Sometimes you have to spend money at present to get profit in several quarters ahead.
To help you explore different options there is fully functional calculation sheet to aid your decisions.
There is also comprehensive help, which will help you to sharpen your economic skills and apply them in practice.
We will be launching soon a Kickstarter campaign for Galactic Merchant and we are inviting you to support us. There is a budget to develop Galactic Merchant, but with the help of Kickstarter we could make the game great.
You could find a pre-campaign page here: Kickstarter.com
Why is it worth to follow?
The main features which will be accessible in the demo are
Further steps in development are
New types of cargo
New ships
New planets
And many other new things. Kickstarter stretch goals are about adding possibility to compete with other businessmen and improving voiceovers.
If you haven't wishlisted the game you could do it here: Store.steampowered.com
Cheers,
Galactic Merchant team
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