Command your airship as sky captain in this relaxing trading game with light base-building and tycoon elements! Start small, buy low, sell high, and build your trade empire among floating islands. Explore stunning skies, automate routes, and become the ultimate trading tycoon.
TRADING & TYCOON GAMEPLAY
Master Trade Routes: Discover lucrative paths, profit from dynamic markets, and grow your wealth in this sandbox trading simulator.
Explore Floating Islands: Sail through the skies, uncover secrets, meet quirky characters, and face unique challenges.
Base Building & Management: Buy islands, establish production chains, automate with caravans for passive income.
Sandbox Freedom: Play your way — trade, explore, or build at your own pace with no limits.
Build Your Dream Mansion: Customize with 200+ blocks, show off your wealth, and design your sky headquarters.
6-8 Hour Campaign: Story-driven quests to restore the world, plus a full Sandbox mode for endless play.
Upgrade & Progress: Level up skills, unlock better airships, produce goods — become the richest trading tycoon!
WHY PLAY MERCHANT OF THE SKIES?
Rated 87% Very Positive on Steam (1,426 reviews) — a hit for fans of tycoon games, sandbox exploration, and cozy simulators. Critics praise its "addictively simple yet deep economy." Blend strategy, light RPG, and freedom in a unique steampunk sky world — no combat, just smart trades and empire expansion!
Start your journey and rise to become the ultimate Merchant of the Skies!
I saw another review that talked about a game save being lost. I just wanted to share my experience that I played a few hours today and tbh I was a bit lost on what to do but still found my way. Turns out, the game never triggered me talking to anyone but the first guy. I didn’t even have the main quest on my screen the whole first session I played. I imagine, like you said in another post, that the tutorial flag never turned off. So I don’t think it has anything to do with the connection to icloud, I think it’s because of that issue of the main story never progressing forward after talking to the first character in the beginning.
Cozy fun
EricSteep
I never played the PC version, but the mobile version is such an enjoyable experience. Sound and visuals are pleasant. Mechanics are tight. There’s an air of “I have no idea what I’m doing”, but it’s not a negative. It feels like you’re gifted a world to explore and trade in, figuring out your own way.Cozy. That’s the best way to explain it.
Worth it
Richiue
Scratched my mount and blade economy itch. I have not experienced any bugs that others have mentioned.
Needs More Polish
Lukas Withakay
Very fun game, definitely something to spend a day on, but very short and a little unfocused.Devs seem to be actively working on it. I would definitely say some features seem a little undercooked.This game would benefit from a greater focus on the economy and trade systems, and scrapping some of the leveling systems. The knowledge system seemed kind of pointless. Lots of ship types with little difference except storage capacity. Didn’t see a point in buying the mid level ships since money is fairly simple to come by.Really glad there are no microtransactions.Tons of potential, just needs more depth.
Fixed an issue where Traditional Chinese language would not load correctly.
Fixed an issue with iCloud save data not saving and loading correctly.
Version 1.5.3
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Information
Seller
ASTRALRIDE
Size
300.8 MB
Category
Simulation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese