Merchant Prince Game

Merchant Prince is a strategy game where players trade goods, navigate politics, and manage resources in Renaissance Venice. Compete for wealth and influence across multiple scenarios.

📅 1993 ✍️ Holistic Design 🎮 Strategy

Game Overview

Ah, Merchant Prince—a classic MS-DOS gem that lets you live out your Renaissance-era trading fantasies! Picture this: You’re a savvy merchant in 16th-century Italy, wheeling and dealing across bustling cities like Venice and Genoa. Buy low, sell high, dodge pirates, and maybe even dabble in politics to climb your way to wealth and power. It’s like Sid Meier’s Pirates! meets The Merchant of Venice, but with all the addictive, spreadsheet-like charm of early ’90s strategy games.

What makes it stand out? The sheer depth! You’re not just trading spices and silk—you’re managing loans, bribing officials, and even funding expeditions to the New World. One wrong move, and you could end up bankrupt or tossed in a dungeon. Yet, that’s the thrill of it! For fans of retro strategy games, Merchant Prince is a nostalgic time capsule, offering a tough-but-rewarding challenge that’ll test your inner mogul. Ready to build a mercantile empire—or die trying?
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".