Merchants of Kaidan
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 20, under the fair line, at $1.49.
- Length
- 14.1h 17.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.11/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 521 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Regain your riches, restore your honor and avenge your father's murder. A challenging trading game with lots of RPG elements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: nVidia GeForce 7800, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 116 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dustland Delivery ($7.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats 16bit Trader ($0.83, scores 0).
More about Merchants of Kaidan
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 14.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
10% start to 3% 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
It is all fun and games until you get a quest to buy 5 diamonds in the city to bring them somewhere else. the catch: No diamonds are for sale and the quest doesnt let you leave town without them, not can you abandon the quest.. GAME OVER..
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I gave this game a solid try and probably got something like 80% of the way to the end before deciding it wasn't a juice worth the squeeze. Merchants of Kaidan is a game that manages to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. Every time you're about to have some fun, it feels like there is some arbitrary mechanic preventing you from actually progressing. Oh, you found a sweet deal on some wares? You lost half of your...
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
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Cite this score
Merchants of Kaidan scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/294020/merchants-of-kaidanReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.