Game Overview
Beneath gaslit Victorian London, profit has teeth, contracts carry curses, and a clever goblin trader can buy almost anything except a clean conscience. Faerie’s Bargain: The Price of Business is a choice-driven fantasy RPG told entirely through prose, casting you as a merchant in an underground fae bazaar where memories, luck, identities, and impossible luxuries all have market value. Its tone mixes sharp social satire with courtly intrigue and fairy-tale menace, letting a routine negotiation turn into blackmail, magical sabotage, or a move against the crown. The absence of visuals is deliberate: the setting lives or dies by its writing, and its strange commodities leave plenty for the reader’s imagination to supply.
Most of the play involves reading scenes, defining your merchant’s personality, and making decisions that shape both immediate deals and long-term political consequences. You can build wealth honestly, manipulate rivals through loopholes and dirty tricks, cultivate social influence, or spend your resources on causes that may be noble, profitable, or both. The story tracks your shifting connection to humanity and Faerie, allowing your character to lean toward either nature as events unfold, while alliances with supernatural concepts such as fog or mirrors add an enjoyably surreal edge. Political plots surrounding Queen Victoria provide the central pressure, but personal relationships, merchant rivalries, gala appearances, investigations, and dangerous bargains ensure that business rarely stays business.
What separates it from a conventional fantasy novel is how thoroughly it treats economics as magic and magic as politics. Character creation supports a broad range of genders, orientations, romantic interests, and moral outlooks, while romance paths can become partnerships, vulnerabilities, or weapons. Its huge word count and branching choices encourage repeat runs focused on different identities, alliances, ambitions, and outcomes for London’s uneasy relationship with Faerie. Players who enjoy Choice of Games-style interactive fiction, the social maneuvering of Fallen London, or narrative RPGs where words matter more than swordplay should find a rich, unusually mercantile adventure here.
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Installation
- Click the green button below to be redirected to UploadHaven.
- Wait 15 seconds, then hit “Free Download.” (Free downloads may be slower — upgrade to UploadHaven Pro for faster speeds.)
- Once downloaded, right-click the .zip file and choose “Extract to Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business.” (You’ll need 7-Zip for this.)
- Open the extracted folder and run the game as administrator.
- Enjoy! 🎮 If you see missing DLL errors, check the _Redist folder inside and install what’s needed.
Setup Guide & Troubleshooting
How do I fix missing DLL errors for Faerie’s Bargain: The Price of Business?
After extracting Faerie’s Bargain: The Price of Business, navigate to the _Redist or _CommonRedist folder inside the game directory and install DirectX, Vcredist, and any other dependencies included.
What should I do if the downloaded file is corrupted?
The full archive is 89.91 MB — make sure your download completed fully before extracting. Use 7-Zip to extract the files. If you still see a "file corrupted" error, re-download and try again.
Why should I run the game as administrator?
Right-click the game executable and select "Run as Administrator" to avoid save file issues and permission errors. This is especially important on the first launch.
How do I update my GPU drivers for this game?
The game won't launch — what should I try?
Try running in compatibility mode, install the latest DirectX runtime, or install the All-in-One VC Redist Package.
My antivirus is blocking the game — is it safe?
Antivirus false positives are common with pre-installed games. Temporarily pause your antivirus during extraction to prevent it from quarantining game files. You can re-enable it after the extraction completes.