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
- Select the Download button at the top of this page to open UploadHaven.
- On UploadHaven, wait for any countdown, then select Free Download. Optional: UploadHaven Pro for faster downloads.
- When complete, extract the archive to a Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business folder using 7-Zip.
- Open the extracted folder and start the game normally.
- For errors, check Setup Guide & Troubleshooting below. Keep your security software enabled.
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.
Do I need to run the game as administrator?
Usually, no. Start the game normally from the extracted folder. If you see a permissions or save error, check that the folder is writable and follow the game's documented fix. Only grant administrator access when a trusted game's specific setup requires it.
How do I update my GPU drivers for this game?
The game won't launch — what should I try?
Check that extraction completed and your PC meets the system requirements. Note any error message before choosing a fix. If it identifies a missing runtime, install the required DirectX components or Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable from Microsoft.
My antivirus is blocking the game — is it safe?
A warning needs to be investigated; the download source alone cannot confirm that a file is safe. Keep your security software enabled and review the detection details. Do not run or restore a flagged file unless you have verified that it is a false positive. If you are unsure, leave it quarantined.