When comparing The Blockheads vs Merchant, the Slant community recommends Merchant for most people. In the question“What are the best one handed Android games?” Merchant is ranked 5th while The Blockheads is ranked 38th. 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.
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Pros
Pro An almost endless amount of choices for how one wants to play
The Blockheads allows for so many options and choices that the game can play however one wants it to play.
Pro Created for mobile devices specifically
The Blockheads unlike other crafting games was designed specifically to be played on mobile devices.
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 Doesn't run on most Android devices, which is partially why...
App is no longer supported on any android devices or available on the Play Store. APKs can be found, but good luck getting them to run. It requires access to offline servers to start up on first run.
Con Contains in app purchases
The Blockheads has an assortment of in app purchases ranging from $0.99 - $24.99 per item.
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.