Fit check
Is The Mercenary Rise worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want turn-based combat combined with trading and regiment management
- RPG fans who enjoy recruiting companions with varied growth requirements
- Players who prefer campaigns built around debt repayment, investigation, and timed objectives
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a complete national-management system, since the current version provides only titles in that area
- Players who prefer fixed character development, since companion attributes vary between playthroughs
- Players looking for a purely combat-focused game without trading, tasks, or business management
Our take on The Mercenary Rise
Rather than centering the campaign only on battles and character progression, the game places mercenary management, caravan investment, debt repayment, and investigation alongside turn-based encounters. Its RPG structure therefore includes an economic layer built around city development and trade.
What is The Mercenary Rise?
Manage Stephen Gray's mercenary corps while investigating his father's death and repaying inherited debts within a limited period.
The game combines turn-based, chess-like battles with regiment management, companion recruitment, trading, and task completion across six countries. Cities act as caravan trading nodes, allowing investment in up to 100 locations, the exchange of goods, and purchases that vary with urban development. Companions have individual skills, recruitment conditions, and growth paths, with randomly determined attributes and ranks from C to S. Relics provide attributes and, at higher levels, skills, mobility, or attack-range benefits. National, guild, branch, and story tasks expand the campaign. The national system is currently incomplete and provides titles.
How The Mercenary Rise plays
- 01Caravan Trading
- Invest in up to 100 city nodes, exchange goods, and use rising prosperity to access additional items and mercenaries.
- 02Turn-Based Battles
- Combat uses a chess-like turn structure in which each companion has distinct abilities and development paths.
- 03Randomized Growth
- Companion attributes vary between playthroughs, with growth grades ranging from C to S.
- 04Relic Equipment
- Relics can grant attributes, skills, movement benefits, or increased attack distance depending on their level.
- 05Companion Recruitment
- Some companions join after conditions such as having a particular teammate or reaching a required national prestige.
The Mercenary Rise compared to similar games
Back to the Dawn is an RPG about surviving and escaping a prison through fighting and investigation, while The Mercenary Rise combines investigation with debt repayment, trade, recruitment, and regiment management across six countries. Shogun Showdown focuses on turn-based positioning, attack tiles, deck construction, and roguelike resets; The Mercenary Rise instead uses companions, city investment, caravans, and relic-based progression.
The Mercenary Rise: platforms & release
Is The Mercenary Rise worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want turn-based combat combined with trading and regiment management. Skip it if: players seeking a complete national-management system, since the current version provides only titles in that area.
Where can I download The Mercenary Rise?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Mercenary Rise's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Mercenary Rise on?
Windows only.
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