Merchants of the Dark Road

Merchants of the Dark Road uses a rondel-style action system that requires planning several steps ahead.
Travel around in your wagon to buy and sell items, recruit heroes, and deliver your wares to the outlying cities of Lumi.
Brave the dark roads and join your opponent’s caravans with careful timing to become the richest and most prestigious merchant.

After half a year of daylight, we must now prepare for the dark season.
The roads will be treacherous but they will still need to be braved by a select few in order to keep our cities thriving.
In Merchants of the Dark Road, you are one of these brave few merchants that travel the dangerous paths between cities.

While the job is perilous, fame and fortune await.

Discover the capital city where most of your actions will take place using a rondel action system.
Collect and produce items to add to your caravan, or sell these items to local heroes and hire them to travel with you.
Manipulate the market price of items, visit the back alley sellers, or delve a nearby dungeon for magical items to gain the potential for even more coin and notoriety.

Gather lanterns to ease your passage along the dark roads as you guide your caravan to distant villages.
Deliver goods and heroes to the best destinations and gain fame for your bravery!
Balance the money you earn with the height of your fame because your final score after a number of game rounds will reflect the lowest of these two values.

After all, what good is a purse full of the coin if the people don’t sing songs about you, and what good is a song with an empty mug of ale?