How to play Merchant on Mac

Game summary

In Merchant the real world is your playing field. You can build a lumberjack cabin at your home address and a stone quarry where you work - then go for an iron mine in your favorite bar. Features: * The real world is the playing field of Merchant. Claim locations you visit often and build settlements that produce the commodities you want to trade in. * Upgrade your settlements: choose from over 50 different buildings each with their own special abilities. * Expand your caravan as you get richer. Buy more wagons and hire specialists like a thief or a carrier. * Explore the world and discover over 40 different kind of land types, from thick jungles, to deserts, to extinct volcanoes. * Find rare commodities on your trips, bring them home and sell them for a profit. * Connect with your friends who play Merchant using Game Center. * Attack or conquer by culture to become more powerful. * Become Knight, Count, Duke or Prince and rule the city you live in, or even the state or the country.
First released: Jun 2014

Play Merchant on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Merchant on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Merchant installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Merchant like you would on any PC.
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