Life of a Mercenary
Hosted Games Simulation In-app purchases Contains ads
Lead a mercenary company seeking fame and fortune!
- Rating
- 4.2
- 10.5K ratings
- Downloads
- 518K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Jan 5
- 2026 · v1.0.33
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About Life of a Mercenary
Lead a mercenary company seeking fame and fortune. Be honorable and help defend the kingdom or take contracts to those who pay the most. Rise to the top of the mercenary chain in this medieval story based around the events of The Great Tournament.
"Life of a Mercenary" is a 338,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Philip Kempton, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
• Play as male or female mercenary.
• An open world adventure taking place in a medieval setting.
• Unique combat and leveling system makes every game unique.
• Multiple story lines, hidden quests, and endings.
• Checkpoint system allows you to save your progress and restore to a previous point
• Choose to be an honorable or fight for whoever pays the most gold.
• Participate in war campaigns helping other nations fight off enemies.
"Life of a Mercenary" is a 338,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Philip Kempton, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
• Play as male or female mercenary.
• An open world adventure taking place in a medieval setting.
• Unique combat and leveling system makes every game unique.
• Multiple story lines, hidden quests, and endings.
• Checkpoint system allows you to save your progress and restore to a previous point
• Choose to be an honorable or fight for whoever pays the most gold.
• Participate in war campaigns helping other nations fight off enemies.
What’s new
Version 1.0.33 · Updated January 5, 2026
You can now choose a font in the Settings menu. Switch to Helvetica for crisp sans-serif text, or try the OpenDyslexic font, designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you enjoy "Life of a Mercenary", please leave us a written review. It really helps!
User reviews
Excellent story telling
Despite being a text game it is overall good but you should add it to where you can keep making choices instead of retiring so early in the game.
Great game. Would be good to have more main characters and more interaction with them. The story line is amazing. Seriously, great work guys.
Like it I want to have a mercenary 2 of this like there kid is the next to be the mercenary like it so much
noice
Such a great game would of Def paid for it
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