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Is Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business worth it for you?
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Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want a text-only fantasy story rather than a graphically presented game
- Fantasy readers drawn to merchant dealings and political intrigue rather than combat-centered adventures
- Players seeking character choices around gender, sexuality, human-faery identity, and romance
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who need visual presentation or sound effects will hit a wall because the experience is entirely text-based.
- Players looking for direct combat systems or action-focused gameplay may find the emphasis on choices, negotiation, and politics too limited.
- Readers who want a short story may find the 291,000-word length demanding.
Our take on Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
The bounce point arrives immediately for anyone expecting a conventional RPG presentation: there are no graphics or sound effects. Players who need combat mechanics may also stop at the merchant-and-politics structure, where wit, deals, and choices carry the conflicts.
What is Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business?
Play as a goblin merchant in a magical market beneath Victorian London, buying and selling memories, wishes, secrets, bottled time, favors, and other impossible goods.
This 291,000-word interactive fantasy novel uses choices to shape the story rather than graphics or sound effects. Wealth can support political influence, social standing, magical advantages, or a revolution against the throne. The story includes negotiations with faery and mortal beings, rival merchants, society events, investigations, and conflicts involving the Empire and Faery. Character creation includes gender, sexuality, human-to-faery identity, and relationships with supernatural allies and other characters. Choices also affect whether factory-bound children are defended or exploited and whether the existing political order is supported or challenged.
How Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business plays
- 01Merchant Roleplay
- Trade unusual goods and favors while deciding whether wealth serves profit, influence, or rebellion.
- 02Choice-Driven Story
- Decisions shape political alliances, personal relationships, and the fate of the Empire and Faery.
- 03Character Identity Options
- Select gender, sexuality, and a position between mostly-human and mostly-faery identities.
- 04Supernatural Alliances
- Form a partnership with a sentient aspect of reality, including Roses, Mirrors, or the Fog of London.
- 05Social Intrigue
- Attend elite events, investigate nobles, negotiate with rivals, and respond to threats within and beyond the Empire.
- 06Moral And Political Choices
- Choose whether to support children trapped in labor arrangements, exploit their situation, defend the throne, or fund a revolution.
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Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business: platforms & release
Is Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want a text-only fantasy story rather than a graphically presented game. Skip it if: players who need visual presentation or sound effects will hit a wall because the experience is entirely text-based.
Where can I download Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business?
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What platforms is Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
