Spice Trade · published · build 25849455
Abu's journey just got better! Before we get to the update, some big news from our other project:
If you've enjoyed building a life from nothing in Urban Tale, Beyond 90 is made for you. It's our pixel-art football career RPG, built with the same love for life sims, and the two games have a lot in common:
You only control yourself: not the team, not the tactics, just your own life and career, from your first contract at 16 all the way to retirement.
Balance work and life: just like in Urban Tale, your energy is split between work (training and matches) and your social life.
Money and career: contracts, agents, transfers, sponsors, property and luxury purchases.
Relationships: a partner, children, friends and life events that test your choices.
A shady side: enjoyed Urban Tale's crime career? Then you'll like betting, bribes and match fixing...
The demo is available now, so you can play it for free! We'd love to hear what you think and a wishlist helps us a lot. ❤️❤️
Spice Trade now has proper Steam integration, including Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud saves and autosave. We've also given the interface a fresh new look, improved the controls and added several quality-of-life features.
And don't worry — your existing save games are fully compatible!
There are now 61 achievements to unlock throughout Abu's life!
Explore different aspects of the game, including:
💰 Trade and wealth
🌍 Every city on the map
👨👩👧 Family
🕌 Pilgrimages and the supernatural
⚱️ The graves of the Assyrian kings
🏛️ Museums, libraries, and mosques
⚔️ Battles
📜 The different ways Abu's story can end
Some achievements are secret. We'll let you discover those for yourself!
Already played Spice Trade? No need to start over. Load an existing save, and any achievements you've already earned will unlock automatically.
You'll also see a notification banner at the top of the screen whenever you unlock an achievement.
Your saves are now stored in:
Documents\\My Games\\Spice Trade\\Saves
They also sync with Steam Cloud, allowing you to continue your journey on another PC.
Automatic save migration: Saves from previous versions are copied to the new location the first time you launch the game. Your original files remain untouched.
New autosave feature: The game automatically saves your progress (autosave.sav) whenever Abu arrives in a city or returns home.
Easy access: Load your autosave directly from the Load menu.
Your Steam friends can now see what Abu is up to!
Depending on your current activity, they'll see statuses such as:
In Venice – age 34 – 12,500 dirhams
Travelling the world
Let your friends follow Abu's adventures across the world!
We've modernised the interface while keeping the spirit of the original game.
What's changed?
Modern interface: Darker, glass-style panels, gold highlights, clearer text, and a redesigned status bar.
New status bar: Slim gauges display Abu's age, health, money, culture, and morals. Any gauge drops below zero? It'll turn red.
Improved controls: Buttons and other interactive elements now highlight when hovered over, with a hand cursor to make them easier to identify.
Grouped inventory items: Shops and inventory now group identical items together, displaying their quantity instead of repeating the same image. Your saffron, for example, can now appear as ×50.
Prefer the original interface? You can switch back anytime under Settings → Interface → Classic.
Spice Trade is now more flexible on modern displays!
Resizable window: Resize or maximise the game window to suit your setup.
Fullscreen mode: Press F11 or Alt + Enter to switch to fullscreen. It now works on modern displays without changing your screen resolution.
New scaling options:
Fit to screen: Enlarges the game to fill the window using sharp scaling.
Original size: Preserves the classic 1024 × 768 resolution.
Classic by default: The game still opens at its original size.
Safer closing: Closing the game window during gameplay now asks for confirmation, helping prevent accidental exits and lost progress.
Want to adjust the sound to your liking?
New separate volume sliders for music and sound effects are available under Settings.
Quick access to the features you use most:
Key
Action
Esc
Open the menu / resume
F5 / F9
Save / load
F1
Help
H
How to play
D
Diary
M
World map
Space / Enter
Skip a scene
New to Spice Trade, or need a quick refresher?
The main menu now includes a three-page How to Play guide covering the basics. You can also open it anytime during the game by pressing H.
Fixed an issue in the crop-growing scene that displayed a box behind the scene and misplaced the plants.
Improved the skip hint, which now reads: "(click or press Space to skip)".
Spice Trade now runs on Eclipse Temurin, an up-to-date, freely licensed Java runtime.
As an added bonus, the download is approximately 100 MB smaller!
Your existing saves work normally in this update.
Load an old save and continue Abu's journey right where you left off. Any achievements you've already earned in that save will unlock automatically.
No restart required. Just update, jump back in, and continue your adventure!
Enjoy the update, and happy trading! 🌶️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Enjoying Spice Trade? Check out our other games!
If you enjoy our games, please consider wishlisting our other upcoming projects on Steam. Every wishlist helps indie games like ours reach more players. Thank you for your support!
Live the life of a footballer, from your first contract at 16 to your final season up to 24 years later. A single career can last over 100 hours. Play every match in real time, earn your place, chase fame, money and love, and face the consequences that follow you beyond the 90 minutes.
👉 Wishlist on Steam:
A first-person management sim set in a living crime-noir town. Recruit workers, pitch clients on the street yourself, manage rising city heat, and keep the operation running before the night forces itself to end. Mature themes, no explicit content.
👉 Wishlist on Steam: