Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant
Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant is a strategy trading game set in a hand-drawn fantasy world. It follows the fox merchant Viia as she builds a trading company while contending with the rival Basilisk Company, within a character-driven, non-linear story told across two timelines.
Gameplay centres on inter-settlement trade, requiring players to manage fluctuating resources and limited cargo space while negotiating deals with clients whose moods and needs affect the outcome. Encounters with bandits and beasts are resolved through turn-based combat, in which trade goods can be used as weapons or defensive items based on their properties. Dialogue-based negotiation offers an alternative to combat, allowing conflicts to be resolved through persuasion or intimidation.
The game includes a Story Mode following Viia’s journey and a separate Company Mode, in which players take on the role of a masked merchant working to restore a run-down company building belonging to the Ravenn Company. Additional features include a hand-drawn, anime-inspired art style, multiple settlements and cities to trade with, hundreds of unique goods, recruitable guards and travellers to form a merchant convoy, and wilderness encounters with varied enemies.
