Debts & Dragons

by syphorce

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.47

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Debts & Dragons: Tussau the Collector Comes

Buy. Sell. Profit. Repeat. Oh... and don't forget the dragon.

Trade, Talk and Travel

Debts & Dragons is a trading simulator where every choice matters. Play as a merchant newly arrived in a foreign land, who becomes inadvertently indebted to a dangerous and powerful dragon. While the lands may be unfamiliar, commerce remains the same: Buy when supply is high and demand is low; sell when supply is low and demand is high. Profit. Repeat. An easy path to riches. Or not.

Beware the Dragon Tax Collector

Trade goods between several unique towns, each with their own unique economies. Time is not your ally, as the dragon could demand repayment at any time. You must satisfy their desire to build a treasure hoard, lest you become the target of their ire and fire.

How to Play

- The objective of the game is to pay back your debts to a dragon tax collector, and maybe make more besides.
- Make money by buying resources at towns and selling them for higher prices at other towns.
- Traveling between towns takes time, so trade efficiently.
- Talk with NPCs for story, quests and more. Your answers will affect your reputation, which affects prices.
- There are four endings based on your money and reputation. Can you get the best one?

Tags: #cute, #dark fantasy, #fantasy, #indie, #meaningful choices, #medieval, #trading, #unity

Genres: adventure, simulation

Tools: Unity

Comments24

Ulziton6 Oct 2025, 23:09

amazing atmosphere very cool one!

Kagegona6 Oct 2025, 23:26

Looks sooo wide, well done

Gaverion6 Oct 2025, 23:39

Nice atmosphere and idea! The interface had a few issues with overlap. It also seemed like numbers were growing exponentially so I wasn't sure if I was just supposed to buy as much as possible and then run around and sell when it felt like I made enough.

Matthieu Riboulot6 Oct 2025, 23:59

Unfortunately, it is easy to get stuck in the user interface

adrielias7 Oct 2025, 01:23

Pretty cool art!!
I would rather the resources that are unavailable to buy/sell had those buttons off or something like that, for clarity!

TemmyT7 Oct 2025, 23:04

Love the aesthetic, gives some old school mmo vibes. However I got confused easily while playing

tardis2snej7 Oct 2025, 23:25

The art of town merchants is so beautiful!
I love the concept of the game. However I found UI not very user-intuitive (took be waay too long to see the little "map" button in the corner...), prices overlap (especially when they get high).
I'd say the game is about inflation, as the prices went x10 in a few days hahaha

GoogleFrog7 Oct 2025, 23:39

At first the inflation seemed a bit extreme. but I came to like it for how fuzzy and precarious it made the trades feel. I would have liked commas in the large numbers, to help me tell trillions from 10s of trillions. At around 10^10 my money seemed to overflow as the operations on it stopped making sense (and would often display zero). Overall, a nice take on trading.

Kamilah8 Oct 2025, 04:56

Everything got so expensive so quickly haha I was not prepared the first time I played this! Once I tried again, though, it felt more manageable and I was able to understand what I should be doing. This was very fun, a nice story with excellent art style and great worldbuilding potential. Nice job!!

LDJam user 4177588 Oct 2025, 07:53

This is a very creative and compelling concept. The character design is excellent.To elevate it further, I'd focus on the execution. The current color scheme lacks harmony, and the rendering could be refined to improve clarity and detail.”

xwHanq8 Oct 2025, 16:04

I like the idea of this game and the gameplay is very interesting. However, there are some thing that could be improved in terms of UI design.

Eugenik9 Oct 2025, 13:58

Fun game.

LDJam user 37201210 Oct 2025, 13:04

Interestingly enough this is the second entry I play about dragon collectors :D But it's nice to see different mechanics established. For future please make sure to add tutorial not as a separate guidebook, but as an actual interactive sequence! Players experience builds upon that

RedPhoenix241212 Oct 2025, 22:52

Really cool art style! I wish it would show what price I paid for each item previously. I lost track a little too quickly. But besides that, it's a very well done entry!

Wallted12 Oct 2025, 23:05

Firstly, I am very impressed looking at the size of this team. This is so epic to see a game made by so many people for a jam. Game looks stunningly, exceptionally beautiful, is filled to the brim with fluff, poruing it's atmosphere onto a player, acompanied by fantastic ambient track. Gameplaywise - it was trivial for me. When I played this the second time I could just buy stuff from anyone on the first day, keep it, sell it to anyone on the last day, making absurd profit. When talking with NPCs, same choice dialouges repeats, which technically allows to farm respect points with one NPC on one day. Despite, I still consider this a great piece of work with breathtaking atmosphere.

MrBamboo13 Oct 2025, 00:27

So much efforts in art!! Wow!!

Phoenix Fireflower15 Oct 2025, 21:21

It must have been difficult coordinating such a large team, but you've managed to create an expansive game with gorgeous art to boot. There is, however, a bug in the game where asking about a rumour can soft-lock the game after the first time the dragon asks for gold. Other than that, I had a great time.

LDJam user 22156117 Oct 2025, 01:32

I'm staggered by the size of the team. This can take a very long time to load (took about 10 attempts) and the UI makes some assumptions about screen ratio which means full screen can drop the bottom of the game into inaccessible areas and mess up some UI elements. There's some game breaking bugs when talking about rumours with merchants where everything just stops, and some placeholder variables that appear.
Trading between merchants would be too easy were it not for the constant threat of death-by-inferno, so that was a nice touch :)

Zathnic17 Oct 2025, 15:45

Cool art and nice worldbuilding!

Floryan18 Oct 2025, 20:59

The music and sound design is good overall, but the economy is trivial. became a billionare on a week 2. Would be a nice game if tweaked enough.

daniel18 Oct 2025, 22:24

Beautiful character portraits. Like others have said, just the management and design for a team this size over 72 hours is it's own type of accomplishment. The differences between the towns and their economies was not super obvious to me, but still was easy enough to make money. Overall very impressive game.