If you think that 16bit Trader will be some fun nostalgic retro-style game that hearkens back to the early 90s in terms of graphics and music, you'd be wrong. 16bit means gold bits, because you are a medieval a trader in this game. I would also like the point out someone forgot the hyphen when naming the game, but they remembered for the artwork.
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16bit Trader is not a game about trading. Buy/sell prices for goods seem to be random and travel is so expensive that you'll always make an overall loss from trading. Taking randomly-appearing quests and gathering once-per-day diamonds are the only reliable way to make money.
It's a lazy port of a mobile game. It's designed around a-few-minutes-a-day...
For a trading game this has a lot of bad aspects:
1) you have to pay to travel, but no way of knowing how much a trip will cost until you take it (and if you dont have enough it wont tell you how much you need)
2) from what I saw in 20 minutes of play, the trade goods between cities are IMPOSSIBLE to profit off of. You only make money from going into...
16bit Trader is a game that is flawed from the word go. Although the idea of the game is a decent one, 16bit Trader fails to execute on what little potential it has. The first problem arises when one attempts to play the game along its intended methods: the prices of the goods being trade barely fluctuate between locations. One can buy goods for one...
16 bit trader could be an intersting trading simulator if you have lot of time play it at once or you dont turn it off, because saving not works properly. but if you dont know this and you turn off the game after you saved you will be surprised next time you try to load the game, that you lost all your progress.
Sadly, many of the achievements not work...
