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Games like Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade

If Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fabledom, Republic of Pirates and Foundation — 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.

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About Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade: "City building" and "Trade" simulation game by Rota, the princess of the forest country! Rota strives to realize her plan for sea trade with the entire world. Let's greatly develop the port town of Portamare through the production, import and export of goods, and business negotiation battles!

2024IndieSimulation14.99 USDWindowsby Caro Builders
Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade — Steam game cover

Players who liked Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade also play

Steam players who put hours into Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade 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. Fabledom

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

    2024StrategySimulationCasual20.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Republic of Pirates

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

    2024StrategySimulation12.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Foundation

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Noble Legacy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?

    2025SimulationRPGEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Pharaoh™: A New Era

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

    2023StrategySimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Imagine Earth

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. MicroTown

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

    2019StrategyIndieEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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 Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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 ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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 ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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 ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    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 ↗

More from Caro Builders

Other recommendable Steam games by Caro Builders, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Emma's Armaments

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Caro Builders, the studio behind Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade. Shares Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Emma's Weapons Shop is a management simulation game in which players collect items while conquering dungeons, smelt them, and sell them at higher prices to increase sales.

    2022Simulation12.40 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helle's Undersea City Project - Bringing Air to The Garden

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Caro Builders, the studio behind Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    Helle's Undersea City Project - Bringing Air to The Garden - Grow and expand the land with air, aiming to rebuild the undersea city with a lone girl, Hele! A new type of undersea city-building simulation game!

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Fio and the Doomed City

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Caro Builders, the studio behind Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

    A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade

How much does Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade cost?
Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade are Fabledom, Republic of Pirates, Foundation.
Who developed Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade?
Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade was developed by Caro Builders and published by Emma Create.

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 Rota's Nautical Chronicles of Trade.

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