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Merchant of the Skies

AstralRide · 194 ratings · ★ 4.6

4.6
★★★★★
194 ratings
5 ★
154 (79%)
4 ★
22 (11%)
3 ★
4 (2%)
2 ★
8 (4%)
1 ★
4 (2%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 6 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

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"game"
4 negative reviews mention this · 67% of all complaints
★★★★ "The game will not launch. It gives an error, "MERCHANT OF THE SKIES HAS NOT COMPLETED THE GOOGLE VERIFICATION PROCESS" and I'm unable to play the game. Google says this doesn't fall within their refund guidelines & to contact the developer,…" - Jordan Benton

📋 All 6 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ Jordan Benton 6/10/2026 v1.1.3
The game will not launch. It gives an error, "MERCHANT OF THE SKIES HAS NOT COMPLETED THE GOOGLE VERIFICATION PROCESS" and I'm unable to play the game. Google says this doesn't fall within their refund guidelines & to contact the developer, who has not bothered to respond. Buy at your own risk.
★★★★ Lexcer, James Lopena 5/30/2026
I want refuns
★★★★★ Jason Lee 6/28/2026 v1.1.4
Accidentally bought this when I was high. Gave it a go but had no idea what to do. Very annoying navigation and lots of work to figure out how to do a lot of things
★★★★★ Jen Sepp 5/21/2026 v1.1.3
The game idea seems to be interesting, but it is my feeling that the UI needs some work, particularly for a game under the "premium" and paid category. Just a few of the many things I've found, how you buy and sell things is not intuitive and the buttons are tiny, the upgrade screen asks you to confirm you are making that choice before you can even read a description, the text is so tiny it's often hard to read it unreadable.. and more that I don't have the characters to share.
★★★★★ szatkus 5/15/2026 v1.1.2
the game lost the save file after a couple of hours of play
★★★★★ Gabriel 5/15/2026 v1.1.2
Very nice art, beautiful game, but way too difficult from the beginning, no clear progress path and gets boring very fast. Doesn't seem to have a real background story as well, the lore feels rushed. OK game overall but I wouldn't have paid for it if I had tried it first, sorry.

Sentiment summary

91%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.