Merchant of the Skies
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.5h
- Value
- $1.76/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, shader 3.0 supporting card (i.e. Intel HD Graphics 4000), 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.19. That was July 2019. 54 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 34 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mad Games Tycoon ($14.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats X4: Foundations ($49.99, scores 51).
6 of the 465 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 112 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
At 8.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
87% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Good game. There's lots of interesting quests, although you can get stuck in the grind of transporting resources for profit.
i just wanted to say thanks for a truly amazing wonderful game!!!! i usually play things like Dune or Starfield basically really BIG games, but im SOOO in love with this title! its an absolute gem and whether you play on your computer OR your phone ....cause you can do both!!! this game shines as a truly great game and probably will go down as a classic, not even joking it has everything it needs to go down as one...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Merchant of the Skies scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1040070/merchant-of-the-skiesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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