Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom

Knights and Merchants:
The Shattered Kingdom
Cover art by Larry Elmore
Developer(s)Joymania Entertainment
Publisher(s)Windows:Linux:
Linux Game Publishing
Producer(s)James Seaman
Designer(s)Peter Ohlmann
André Quass
Adam Sprys
Programmer(s)Peter Ohlmann
Artist(s)Adam Sprys
Writer(s)Martin Thal
Platform(s)Windows
MorphOS
Mac OS
Linux
ReleaseWindows
  • GER: September 18, 1998
  • NA: October 1998
  • EU: November 1998
Linux
March 13, 2007
Genre(s)Real-time strategy
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom, known as simply Knights and Merchants, is a medieval-time based real-time strategy (RTS) video game. It was developed by Joymania Entertainment (since changed to Joymania Development) and published by TopWare Interactive in 1998. The player takes the role of the captain of the palace guards and leads the soldiers and citizens to victory. An expansion pack was released in 2001, titled Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion.