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-Fix bug to custom game start options -Fix alert graphics bug -Fix to map screen being dismissable when a custom start location hasn't been chosen
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Mercantisle
Also known as Mercantisle, m, mercantisle
Living world village simulator with an in-depth economic model. Your villagers lead their own lives, learning skills and setting up businesses, then trading in a free-market simulation. Try out real world economic ideas as you grow from a single house to multiple villages in a vast trade network
Last update
22 May 2026
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Browse past updates and patch notes for this game.
20 updates
March 2026
- Version 1.0 is here, along with the new biome, the Badlands. The badlands are an inhospitable region. The only animals there are dangerous when attacked, and plants don’t grow. Any village trying to grow there will need…Store
August 2025
- Hey everyone, we have some big news! We are changing the name of the game from We Need No Kings to Mercantisle! Alongside this we are also giving the Steam art a new coat of paint, and have made a shiny new logo. We fel…Patch notes
July 2025
- The Weirdness Update!Our first large content update is here. Weirdness allows you to slowly build up a population of weird members of your society. Normal people get unhappy when weird people do their thing, which can harm your village’s gr…
June 2025
- Bugfix: Mouse positionFix for an issue which was being reported on certain monitor setups (including ones with a secondary monitor to the left of the main one) which prevented building placement
- After some delays, the beta-branch now has its first content update, testing some elements of the Weird update. Marketing has been a little turbulent, but would could have predicted a major US protest movement would app…Store
- BugfixFix to right click not allowing you to access a building's recipes Also changed it so the player character doesn't start with a trait
- Small UI and gameplay fixesAnother small set of tweaks and changes. The larger changes (new buildings and newer, more complex animal) are being worked on in the background, and will be on the beta-branch soon. Gameplay: -Buffed enemy insect "tire…
- Update notesUI: -Improved click accuracy on buildings -Warning added to world map islands if they lack stone/wood Bugfix: -Fixed missing graphic for tin deposit
- Micropatch: UI for buying screenJust changed the UI for the buy screen to now default to not letting you automatically buy stuff and resell it, because it was a feature I personally rarely used and cluttered stuff up if unneeded. Single button click t…
- Combat change: Tired InsectsJust a minor patch to fix a few things up. Main one is that the insects now slowly get tired while attacking, making them easier to hit. It's set to a fairly low value right now, and the effects of tiredness will be twe…
May 2025
- Hotfix for potion issueTiny bugfix for an issue which may have been causing games to fail and be unable to progress, which I believe was cause by sailors thinking about drinking witch potions while at sea. Don't drink and sail, folks. Bugfixe…
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