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Watch trailer on Steam ↗商道逐权 Pursuit of Mercantile Power
秘枫 · Published by 秘枫
Last updated 15 Oct 2026
Pursuit of Mercantile Power is a single-player economic sim with light RPG. No money spawns—money only moves. Control the village’s cash flow, use proposals and loans, buy shares, and take over enterprises to seize GuYuan’s commercial order.
Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access · 2026 · More free games
Navigate the complex economy of GuYuan as you manage cash flow, negotiate loans, and expand your influence through strategic investments.
About this game
Pursuit of Mercantile Power is a game where you can leverage the entire village’s cash flow to buy out the whole village.No money spawns. Control the village’s cash flow, buy shares, and take over the village.
You begin as an ordinary commoner—making your start through escort missions—then move on to join the Commerce Guild, submit proposals to the Bank, expand farmland, and even take office in the Government.
Tax rates, wages, food, and population movement all affect one another, causing the village’s cash flow to rise and fall accordingly.
Escort Combat — Build Your Strength
The Escort Agency is your starting point. By running escort missions, you improve combat ability and build wealth.
Upgrade the agency to unlock better missions, and build stronger escort carts to meet mission requirements.
Train more powerful martial arts, gather materials, and craft stronger equipment to protect your cart against enemies along the route.
Proposals — Change the Rules
Proposals are the most important feature in the game. By submitting proposals, you can influence how enterprises operate, which in turn changes where the village’s money flows.
Whether you’re helping an enterprise grow, or pushing proposals that benefit your own hostile takeover, your choices will shape the village’s future.
Share Warfare — Hostile Takeovers
The Commerce Guild is the trading hub for all share dealings. By joining it, you can acquire shares in other enterprises and secure final decision-making power.
The village’s cash flow directly affects whether your shares can be sold. One wrong move can leave you with valuable shares—but no buyers.
To trade smoothly, you must ensure cash flows into the market’s stock liquidity pool.
Cash Flow — How Do You Allocate It?
Cash flow in the village doesn’t appear out of nowhere. The key is how you influence how money circulates and gets distributed.
Do you keep cash in your own hands to grow personal wealth?
Do you direct limited funds into enterprises to develop the village?
Or do you convert cash into shares to obtain ultimate power?
It all depends on your proposals—or the decisions you make after taking control.
Mismanagement — A Curse in Disguise
The Commerce Guild influences village prosperity. Livelihood goods and grain stockpiles indirectly or directly reshape how cash flow is distributed.
The Bank absorbs villagers’ deposits and lends to you or other villagers, increasing the village’s total circulating capital. But poor management can trigger a liquidity crisis and bankruptcy—dividends stop entirely, and both you and the villagers may lose all deposits.
The Farm is the village’s core: food equals population. No food means no people, and the village collapses on its own.
The Government handles land allocation, public security, housing development, and more. If the Government goes bankrupt, the game ends.
Any enterprise can go bankrupt due to mismanagement, sending the village down a road toward ruin.
Rebirth — Seize Absolute Power
After bankruptcy, if you still have the means, you can go to the Government to restart—but each functional enterprise can only be revived once.
Every enterprise is essential. The bankruptcy of even one will disrupt the village’s entire cash-flow loop.
If the Government goes bankrupt too, it’s game over.
Early on, you steer each enterprise manager’s decisions through proposals. Once you’ve built enough wealth and power, you’ll use loans to draw the village’s cash flow into your own hands—then acquire the enterprise to gain the final say over its direction, the village’s money distribution, and ultimately everything.
In the end, the village’s financial system is stabilized—and expanded—through Escort Agency capital injection, Commerce Guild trade, Bank lending, story encounters, industry expansion, and share-based power struggles. Your goal is to secure the financial chain, expand your sphere of influence, and ultimately take control of GuYuan Village’s commercial order.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 或 AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4600 / UHD 620 或 NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti / AMD R7 260X（2GB VRAM）
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: 兼容 DirectX 的内建音效
Recommended
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 或 AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1650 / AMD RX 570（4GB VRAM）
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: 兼容 DirectX 的内建音效
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update 0.0.5.1014.2 | Escort Drops, Agency UI & Government Permissions
Event DescriptionHello, everyone!Update 0.0.5.1014.2 focuses on material acquisition, escort agency interfaces, and government management. Here’s what’s changed.1. New Agency Material GuideAdded material reference pages to the agency warehouse so you can check requirements before donating:Agency upgrades.Engine and carriage crafting.Engine and carriage upgrades.2. Escort Enemy Drop AdjustmentsAdjusted enemy drops during escort missions. Equipment recipe tiers available at each mission difficulty are now:1 star: Tiers 2–3, unchanged.2 stars: Tiers 3–5.3 stars: Tiers 5–6.4 stars: Tiers 7–8.5 stars: Tier 9.Cloth acquisition has also been improved:Increased the cloth drop chance from escort enemies to 60%.Increased cloth quantities from material boxes by 50%, with fractional amounts rounded up.3. Agency UI & Promotion InformationRevised the escort promotion interface and related explanations.Updated most agency interfaces to improve layout and presentation.Improved the display of government promotion requirements.4. Government Management PermissionsSeveral management features now unlock at lower ranks. Higher ranks retain all lower-rank permissions:Patrol: Basic features. Monthly salary: 1,000 taels. Monthly decree limit: 1.Constable: Unlocks yamen construction. Monthly salary: 2,000 taels. Monthly decree limit: 2.Registrar: Unlocks land development weight adjustments. Monthly salary: 5,000 taels. Monthly decree limit: 4.County Guard: Unlocks tax rate adjustments. Monthly salary: 10,000 taels. Monthly decree limit: 6.County Chief: Grants access to the government treasury and official replacement. Monthly salary: 20,000 taels. Monthly decree limit: 10.This update changes the rank requirements for direct management features only. Salaries, monthly decree limits, and minimum ranks for individual proposals remain unchanged.5. New Government QuestAdded “Clear the Water Stronghold Hideout”, which requires Notorious Bandit Tokens.6. Player Housing & Backyard AdjustmentsAdjuste...Read full article on Community Announcements (秘枫)Patch NotesOfficial
【Update Notes | Government Adjustments & Farm Grain Donations】
【Update Notes | Government Adjustments & Farm Grain Donations】1. Reduced Government Promotion RequirementsGovernment Merit and Government Reputation requirements for promotions have been reduced to one-tenth of their previous values:Constable: 500 Government Merit and 500 Government Reputation.Registrar: 1,000 Government Merit and 1,000 Government Reputation.County Guard: 5,000 Government Merit and 5,000 Government Reputation.County Magistrate / Town Chief: 10,000 Government Merit and 10,000 Government Reputation.Other requirements, including village level, remain unchanged, as do official salaries. Promotion only checks whether you meet the requirements; Merit and Reputation are not consumed.2. Government Contribution & Quest Reward AdjustmentsEarning Government Contribution now also grants an equal amount of Government Merit. Fixed an issue where material and blueprint donations displayed Contribution rewards without actually crediting them.All 25 government quests now grant Government Reputation equal to their Government Merit reward. This also applies to unfinished quests in existing saves. Previously claimed rewards will not be adjusted retroactively.3. Government Funding Button Always AvailableThe government’s “Contribute Funds” button is now available at all times, not just during financial distress.Every 10,000 taels contributed grants 100 Government Contribution, 100 Government Merit, and 100 Government Reputation. When the government enters financial distress, a letter requesting assistance will be sent without automatically opening the funding window. Existing financing and bankruptcy rules remain unchanged.4. Terminology & Quest UI ImprovementsGovernment interfaces now consistently use “Government Merit” and “Government Reputation” to distinguish them from Government Contribution and the player’s personal Jianghu Reputation.The government quest UI has also been improved.5. New Farm Feature: Donate Grain“Donate Grain” has been added beside the “Grain Buye...Read full article on Community Announcements (秘枫)AnnouncementsOfficial
Command the Server-Wide Stronghold. Become the Next Bandit Chief!
Rise to the Top. Command the Server-Wide Stronghold. Become the Next Bandit Chief!The Online Shared Stronghold connects players adventuring through their own worlds to a single bandit organization. Earn silver at the Black Market, build your contribution, compete for a seat—and claim the position of Bandit Chief.This time, you’re not chasing a rank to show off. You’re competing for a say in how the server-wide stronghold is run.A New Term Every Seven Days. Why Shouldn’t the Next Chief Be You?Want to make money? Trade at the Black Market. Want a seat at the table? Climb the contribution rankings. Want a voice in the stronghold’s future? Aim for the seat at the head of that table.Pricing. Appointments. Approvals. Operations. Construction. This shared stronghold needs more than spectators.Will you follow the next order—or be the one who gives it?The Online Shared Stronghold connects players through shared funds, inventory, contribution rankings, and management decisions. It is not real-time multiplayer combat in a shared scene.Making the Rankings Is Just the Beginning. Claiming the Top Seat Is the Ambition!Bandit Chief, Treasurer, Operations Commander, Construction Overseer… The names on this organization chart belong to real players. Yours could be among them.Contributions are tallied every seven days. The top ten players become the stronghold’s members for the new term, with the highest-ranked player taking the role of Bandit Chief.Want to rise from an unknown wanderer to the heart of the organization? Trade, contribute, and push your name up the rankings.The seat is waiting—but no one holds it forever.This Seat Comes with More Than a Title!As Bandit Chief, you can approve management proposals, weigh policy decisions, and reassign positions among the current term’s members.Support higher Black Market purchase prices—or save the funds for construction? Approve a new operational plan—or send it back for reconsideration?You used to wait for someone else to hand out the ...Read full article on Community Announcements (秘枫)AnnouncementsOfficial
《Pursuit of Mercantile Power》Devlog #7: Demo GamePlay!!
Pursuit of Mercantile PowerSet in an ancient-style village, the game blends escort-mission combat with multi-institution management—forcing you to choose between “making money” and “seizing power.”You can join the Escort Guild to take missions, gather resources, craft equipment, and steadily grow your combat strength.Or you can enter the Commerce Guild to trade shares, compete for ownership, and influence an enterprise’s fate through stock price swings. Because the demo currently has limited buildings available, it only supports a unique semi-closed-loop village economy for now: money circulates among villagers, the government, the bank, the commerce guild, and other institutions. The Early Access version will deliver a fully closed-loop economy.Stock prices are influenced by an enterprise’s total assets and overall Prosperity—so you can play it safe with steady management, or attempt high-risk hostile takeovers.The demo includes basic tutorials and a quick guide to help you learn escort missions and trading faster.The Early Access version will unlock more buildings and systems, expanding depth and strategic choices.Visit the Steam page to download the demo, and send us your feedback and questions.You’re also welcome to leave a comment in the Steam discussions—let’s make GuYuan Village better together.Demo GameplayBased on the buildings currently available, you can try the following playstyles.Hostile Takeover GameplayTake out a loan at the bank (the limit is about 50,000).Join the Escort Guild and start escort missions. Intentionally fail missions so the guild must pay compensation, while the player only loses the deposit.As the guild starts losing money, its total assets drop rapidly and the stock price falls accordingly.Wait until the stock price drops to around 1–5, then begin buying.Buy a large amount in one go; otherwise, as tradable shares shrink, the price will rebound.51% ownership lets you freely operate the Escort Guild; 100% ownership is required to use ...Read full article on Community Announcements (秘枫)AnnouncementsOfficial
《商道逐权 Pursuit of Mercantile Power》 Devlog #6: Yin–Yang Martial Arts
Hi everyone~ In the previous post, we covered how the equipment system works. Today, let’s talk about the Martial Arts system in Pursuit of Mercantile Power.Martial Arts are divided into three schools: Yin-Yang, Yin, and Yang. Simple enough, right? ~Each school has nine tiers to break through. Every time you突破 (break through) a tier, you unlock the martial art technique or passive skill tied to that tier.On top of that, each tier has its own level that can be upgraded. And yes—levels can even affect the skill’s attack coefficient, so martial arts are a big deal.Also, combat in Pursuit of Mercantile Power is real-time action combat. You’ll fight in many different situations, including escort missions, bounty hunts, village defense, and bandit campaigns.Qi Stance SwitchingOn the battlefield, you can freely switch your Qi stance anytime, anywhere. However, there is a very short cooldown after each switch.As long as you switch into a stance, you can use the martial arts of that school— and at the same time, you can recover Qi for the other schools.Yin-Yang Stance — restores Yin Qi + Yang QiYin Stance — restores Yin-Yang QiYang Stance — restores Yin-Yang QiSo when you’re swapping stances to chain skills, you’ll need to watch whether your next stance has enough Qi— otherwise your combo will break simply because you ran out of the right energy.Martial Arts AwakeningIn this update, the martial arts progression is split into three developable paths, all following a unified structure:Awaken → Tiered Progression → Passive Enhancements → Ultimate FinishYin-Yang Return (阴阳归宗) A Yin-Yang sword style path that starts from “Primordial Balance” (乾坤初现) and progresses tier by tier, eventually unlocking the ultimate: “Myriad Swords Return” (万剑归宗).Nine Yang True Qi (九阳真气) A more power-focused route centered on fists/palms and passive enhancements, reaching the ultimate: “Nine Yang: Returning to Origin” (九阳归元).Nine Yin True Qi (九阴真气) A cold and ruthless blade route that grows tier by tie...Read full article on Community Announcements (easy)
