When comparing Crusaders Quest vs Merchant, the Slant community recommends Merchant for most people. In the question“What are the best mindless games on Android that give a sense of progression through earned skills and unlocks?” Merchant is ranked 1st while Crusaders Quest is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Merchant is:
The game has a nice retro pixel art style. From the menus to the dungeons or shop there is a very familiar aesthetic to the overall design that would have fit in quite well on consoles in the 80's.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Huge amount of customization
The bread and butter of the game is customizing ones characters loadouts. Customizing their abilities and gear is a huge part of the game that will draw people in that enjoy slightly altering stats in unique ways.
Pro Pixel art
The game has a nice retro pixel art style. From the menus to the dungeons or shop there is a very familiar aesthetic to the overall design that would have fit in quite well on consoles in the 80's.
Pro Fun resource management mechanic
The player can sell their loot (gathered from a dungeon) for in game money, to then be spent on needed equipment or can equip their loot to try harder dungeons to get better loot to sell for new equipment. Each action is a gamble and may or may not pay off for the player.
Pro In active development
Merchant is still in a very active development phase, which means there will be plenty of bug fixes and new features and tweaks to the gameplay added.
Pro Dedicated subreddit
Merchant has a dedicated subreddit page where users can discuss the game, strategies and bugs.
Pro Completely free and zero permissions
Merchant is a completely free game that also has zero permissions.
Cons
Con Simplistic gameplay
The characters in the game are not directly controlled, but are on auto pilot only seeing the player press a few buttons in the correct order in order to clear blocks in ones path. This is more a tapping button game over a full fledged RPG.
Con Current version has both ads and in-app purchases
Con Wait times
There are wait times in the game for both crafting and adventuring. This makes it impossible to sit and play for any length of time and makes the user have to come back to the game often in order to make any significant progress.
Con Lag/delay of action
When pressing buttons in the menus there is a noticeable delay until the requested action actually takes place.