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Games like Spaceport Trading Company

If Spaceport Trading Company is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon, Starlathe and Game Dev Empire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and nostalgic. 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.

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About Spaceport Trading Company: Become spacefaring merchant in a galaxy filled with diverse planets, each with its own economy, resources, and challenges. Amass wealth and reputation by trading goods, negotiating with factions, and navigating the intricacies of interstellar commerce.

2023StrategyIndieSimulationRPGEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Digital Tectonics, LLC
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Steam players who put hours into Spaceport Trading Company 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.

  1. Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Starlathe

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Game Dev Empire

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Start a game studio in 1980 and turn it into an industry empire. Build teams, create hits, follow a changing market with competitors, and expand into engines, publishing, hardware, digital stores, and acquisitions.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Star Corsairs: Fractured Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Trade, fight and explore. Build a fleet, level your captain and dive through wormholes for rare loot — a single-player 2D space RPG of free corsairs.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation8.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. D.R.I.F.T.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceport Trading Company.

    A slow, system-driven space sim about contracts, reputation, and survival through careful decision-making, not combat or heroics.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. X3: Terran Conflict

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Spaceport Trading Company.

    It is the year 2938. The long wished-for encounter of the X Universe and the Earth holds both joy and sorrow for the people. Despite flourishing trade, the clash of the diverse races, cultures and life forms creates new tensions, mistrust and open conflict that need to be overcome!

    2008ActionStrategySimulation3.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Zorehrai: Space Formations

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Start with your own character and a small ship in a world that lives independently of the player. Develop your skills, explore space, trade, build industry, and grow your fleet to survive real-time battles against hostile fleets—and something far more terrifying lurking in the darkness.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Starscrip

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Spaceport Trading Company fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Spaceport Trading Company.

    The top-down space sim. Fly, trade, and fight in a galaxy shaped by simulated history, where production, freight, and war reshape a living economy.

    2027ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spaceport Trading Company at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Spaceport Trading Company.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Spaceport Trading Company on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceport Trading Company.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Aircar

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    A simple immersive flying game built for VR. Pilot an aircar through a futuristic cityscape.

    2019IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. Lily's Well

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

    2022IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Spaceport Trading Company.

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Spaceport Trading Company

Does Spaceport Trading Company run on Steam Deck?
Spaceport Trading Company is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Spaceport Trading Company cost?
Spaceport Trading Company is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Spaceport Trading Company?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spaceport Trading Company are Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon, Starlathe, Game Dev Empire.
Who developed Spaceport Trading Company?
Spaceport Trading Company was developed by Digital Tectonics, LLC.

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