Caravans of Fortune

📜 Synopsis & Inspiration:

This game takes place on the Silk Road found in Asia, where merchants travelled this road far and wide selling things like silk and other items. The in-game prices are supposed to mimic real life (relatively) prices of when things were sold but of course it’s not 100% accurate. I tried to make the game as realistic as I can with a bit of a twist where you owe your boss some gold (to make it challenging)

🛠️ Features:

• 🌀 Roguelite!
• 🪙 20+ unique artifacts to enhance your runs.
• 🧪 Combine items to sell them for more!
• 🛡️ Fend off bandits on your journey!
• 💀 Pay your dues to the boss every 7 days.
• ⏳ More events to come!

🎮 Controls?

Just a space bar when fighting bandits and a mouse for dragging & dropping items across inventories.

🧭 How to play?

You will start off with some gold amount (75 gold) and a choice of an artifact that acts as bonuses to the game. Every day you will encounter a random event, these include:

• Encountering a merchant where you can buy & sell items there. Every merchant has a preference for items which he will buy off of you for a premium price!
• Encountering a bandit who if you cannot defeat will steal either gold or 1 random item from your inventory.
• Encountering a treasure chest where you can either earn some gold or could be a trap where a bandit hides behind it.

Certain items can be combined for more gold, for example if you combine the following you get a bonus:

Every 7th day you will have to pay your boss a payment you owe him that increases every payment day. If you fail to pay the debt you will lose. Simple? Awesome!

🚧 Future plans?

I still have a few updates for this game and these include:

• More events per day happening other than the traditional merchant, bandit and treasure.
• Sounds added and maybe more animations.
• Cosmetics (this one is a big maybe depends whether the game gets some traction or not).

💬Side notes:

You will likely encounter bugs as this game is pretty early in its stages (and I am also not a pro at all), if you do encounter any please let me know, I’ll try my best to fix them.

Current game version has no sounds - I plan to add sounds later of course! I mainly wanted to get this game published for my friends to test & play. But would love to hear others feedback as well!

Currently the shop is non functional so please excuse that.

Have fun!

💡 This is a test build — feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Credits:  All art is thanks to elfapixels