Games like The Merchants
If The Merchants is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deliria, Orius SOmbréa RPG and Strážce Kopce: Zrození Legendy — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Merchants: Captain anything from a small cargo vessel to a mighty galleon. It is your choice to command the crew of a single ship or raise an entire fleet of various vessels. Haul cargo, wield cannons, or manage a mix of both as you and your friends navigate the high seas.
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Steam players who put hours into The Merchants also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Deliria
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Top pick for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Merchants.
Fight what should never wake. Deliria is an infinite multiplayer sandbox with no cubes and no grid: carve the world smooth, build a town people actually move into, and hold it against blood moons, invasions and nine Lovecraftian gods.
Orius SOmbréa RPG
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Second-strongest match for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merchants.
Orius Sombréa is a dark fantasy retro RPG featuring world map exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and choice-based dialogue that influences the adventure. A tribute to classic 16-bit games with a modern approach.
Strážce Kopce: Zrození Legendy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Merchants.
Guardian of the Hill: Birth of a Legend is an open-world survival RPG inspired by Celtic history, where you complete quests for unique NPCs, build and defend your own stronghold, survive enemy raids, and uncover the truth buried beneath the hill — alone or with up to three friends in co-op.
Street Boy
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Ranked #4 for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Merchants.
Street Boy tells the story of Arlinton, a Jamaican boy hustling with his handcart, helping his neighbors, and standing up to local thugs trying to tear his community apart.
Folk Souls
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Ranked #5 for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Merchants.
An unknown metal strikes Earth, awakening the dark magic of the witch Cuca. As once-protective spirits now threaten the ecosystem, you are chosen to face mutated creatures and challenging bosses in this dark fantasy action RPG Soulslike.
World Of Mana
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Ranked #6 for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Merchants.
You can play with many people with a map made with the map editor and share the created map. You can set up individual or team battles and become a team together to catch monsters, escape mazes, or fight each other. Create a map using the map editor in World of Mana and enjoy it together.
Ashes of Creation
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Ranked #7 for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Merchants.
Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.
God of War Ragnarök
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Ranked #8 for The Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Merchants.
Kratos and Atreus embark on a mythic journey for answers before Ragnarök arrives – now on PC.
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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 The Merchants.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Merchants.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merchants.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merchants.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merchants.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Merchants.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Merchants.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Frequently asked about The Merchants
- Does The Merchants have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Merchants supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Merchants?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Merchants are Deliria, Orius SOmbréa RPG, Strážce Kopce: Zrození Legendy.
- Who developed The Merchants?
- The Merchants was developed by Anchorpoint Interactive.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Merchants.
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