When comparing Merchant vs Bean's Quest, the Slant community recommends Bean's Quest for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” Bean's Quest is ranked 54th while Merchant is ranked 94th. The most important reason people chose Bean's Quest is:
Bean's Quest has things to find, challenges based on complexity and the amount of times you've jumped in each level. Trying to hit everything in each level can become addictive.
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Pros
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.
Pro Lots of replayability
Bean's Quest has things to find, challenges based on complexity and the amount of times you've jumped in each level. Trying to hit everything in each level can become addictive.
Pro Easy to control but very hard to master
This is a mobile platform game which is easy to control but very hard to master. You can only tell your character to go left or right, jumping happens continuously. This strikes the balance between control and timing that make all the best platformers great.
Pro Great visuals
The visuals may seem a little jarring to begin with but they turn out to be superb. Created by Melbourne artist Jagi.
Cons
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.
Con Bean's Quest is short
The length of the game is a bit short.