Merchant Isle

About this game

A language Metroidvania and merchant game that includes story elements. Be a merchant in a new land with unfamiliar languages.



Learn different languages to be able to communicate with people of different villages. Unlock new ways of interacting with villagers as your knowledge of the languages increases. Expand your language skills to be able to trade in new ways and understand the supply and demand in each village. Embark on a journey with mysterious languages to learn and island villages to connect.

Features

Learn new languages. Use language knowledge to unlock new NPC interactions.



Become a travelling merchant. Explore ancient ruins for items.


Negotiate trade prices. Balance making money with your reputation

Latest news

• Patch Notes·9 Jun 2026Official

  Merchant Isle Update – Language Collection Fixes

  Hello everyone!A small update for Merchant Isle is now live that fixes a couple of issues related to language collection and completion.FixesFixed an issue where two unused words could appear at the bottom of each language's word list. These words were remnants from development and were never intended to be obtainable in-game.Fixed a mislabeled word pickup that prevented one Wastumulian word from appearing correctly and resulted in a duplicate Hanonguftic word instead.Players should now be able to properly collect all words in each language.A special thanks to Metalman4299 for carefully investigating these issues and reporting them. Your attention to detail helped improve the game for everyone!Thank you to everyone who has played Merchant Isle and shared feedback. We truly appreciate it.
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• Announcements·9 Jul 2025Official

  Island Beautification Efforts

  Hello! Hope you are having a good summer.I've been hard at work expanding the number of assets across the island. There is no much more to look at. Let's look at some sneak peeks:With the addition of the new objects throughout the world, I've expanded the dynamic asset loading and unloading system so that you should see improved performance even with more objects.There are also a number of UI updates, which add in visual improvements and some animations. Hope to see you on the island!-Gogodinosaur (Jake)
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• Patch Notes·15 May 2025Official

  Optimization Update

  Hello everyone! I've been working on an update that massively improves performance of the game. In some test builds I increased my frame rate by 20 fps when walking around the starting village. I hope you enjoy the improved performance! -Gogodinosaur
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• Announcements·18 Nov 2024Official

  Merchant Isle Improvements

  Hello everyone! Merchant Isle has been updated to V1.0.6. This update includes some improvement to menu visuals, object loading, and collision blockers. See the full change list below: We are excited to continue to improve the game over time! Changes Alter main menu background Improve main menu visuals Improve settings menu visuals Improve trade item icons Improve water blocking volumes in towns Provide the ability to skip the intro sequence Update the path visuals in some towns Optimize object streaming for smoother performance -Gogodinosaur
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• Patch Notes·16 Jul 2024Official

  New tip menu and bug fixes

  Created a new tip menu that is accessible in the escape menu Fixed collision boxes in a few locations Fix a bug where players could climb on a storm cloud Fix a bug where a town's demand showed E_Max Fix a bug where players could negotiate with a merchant many times per day
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