Games like Space Trader: Merchant Marine
If Space Trader: Merchant Marine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Test Lab Inc., Cult of the Lamb and BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bounty hunting adds variety, cheap but surprisingly addictive and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Space Trader: Merchant Marine: Space Trader is an open world trading colony sim wrapped in a shooter. Start as a Rookie and earn your way to Master using shrewd trades, back alley deals, bribes, and well-placed bullet. Buy low, sell high and don’t take no for an answer.
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Test Lab Inc.
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Top pick for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Customize your skills and rain hell upon the endless hordes of robots. Test Lab Inc. is a fast-paced game where you'll be constantly tweaking your abilities until you become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction and crush all the puny robots that dare cross your path.
Cult of the Lamb
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Second-strongest match for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
A BRAZILIAN BOOMER SHOOTER GAME MADE USING THE ID TECH 2 ENGINE! SHOOT, JUMP, EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, HELL AND EVEN HEAVEN! SAVE BRAZIL!
Variant 22
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Ranked #4 for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Variant 22 is a survival game set in a procedural roguelike post American wasteland. Singleplayer or Multiplayer Coop, Scavenge loot from contaminated areas then base build back in the "safe zone" against endless hordes of the infected.
Elon Simulator - Spend Like A Trillionaire
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Ranked #5 for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Elon Simulator is an immersive Trillionaire Simulator with TONS of fun mechanics and activities. As Elon, you can: Smoke Weed (a lot), Print your own Money, Sell Lithium to Earth for BILLIONS, Make MILLIONS while you sleep in real life, Become a Trillionaire, and TONS more! Made by one dude.
Cruelty Squad
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Ranked #6 for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
An immersive power fantasy simulator with tactical stealth elements set in a sewage infused garbage world
City Massacre
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Ranked #7 for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
City Massacre is a free-to-play zombie-survival FPS. Take part in survival competition in the locked city. Play solo or as a team, earn money and popularity. To win in the “City Massacre” means to get right for worthy and carefree life.
Black Ice
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Ranked #8 for Space Trader: Merchant Marine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Hack greedy megacorps to help as many people as you can in a high-agility cyberpunk looter/shooter RPG. Explore neon cyberspace vistas and outmaneuver AIs to customize your hacker OS and weapon combos. Play solo or online co-op with up to 10 people!
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Quake
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Reviewers of Space Trader: Merchant Marine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Quake II
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Reviewers of Space Trader: Merchant Marine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
Drug Wars
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Reviewers of Space Trader: Merchant Marine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Drug Wars is a gritty, gory romp through a futuristic New York City, circa 3100, where severe global warming conditions have resulted in a harsh divide between upper-class Brooklyn gang bosses and a booming population of engineered Neanderthal bottom-dwellers.
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
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Reviewers of Space Trader: Merchant Marine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
Thief
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Reviewers of Space Trader: Merchant Marine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Reviewers of Space Trader: Merchant Marine cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Trader: Merchant Marine at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Space Trader: Merchant Marine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
of the Devil
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Trader: Merchant Marine.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Space Trader: Merchant Marine
- How much does Space Trader: Merchant Marine cost?
- Space Trader: Merchant Marine is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Space Trader: Merchant Marine have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Space Trader: Merchant Marine supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Space Trader: Merchant Marine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Trader: Merchant Marine are Test Lab Inc., Cult of the Lamb, BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT.
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