Games like Merchant
If Merchant is your kind of game, the closest matches are PickCrafter, Idle Skilling and Swag and Sorcery — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting depth rewards experimentation, daily roulette adds surprise and chill. 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 Merchant: Merchant blends traditional RPG systems and tycoon style mechanics. No gems, no consumables, all purchases are DLC! Great for second screen gaming! Merchant reimagines the classic RPG experience from the perspective of a Merchant. Hire Heroes and Crafters to do your bidding for you.
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Steam players who put hours into Merchant 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.
PickCrafter
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Merchant.
Top pick for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Merchant.
Conquer PickCrafter, the hit indie idle game! Break blocks, forge equipment, and collect powerful Pickaxes. Prestige to legendary tiers with the new Ascension Skill Tree. Discover biomes and battle epic bosses. Make meaningful choices and invent complex builds in this addictive endless adventure!
Idle Skilling
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Merchant.
Second-strongest match for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Free To Play with Merchant.
Idle Skilling is the ultimate Idle Game with years of content! Meant to be played for 5-10 minutes a day, you gradually unlock new skills like mining, fishing, pet breeding, crusading, potion-making, lab-research, construction, and more! With new updates coming, you'll never run out of stuff to do!
Swag and Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares hero management and a chill mood with Merchant.
Third-strongest match for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Merchant.
Grind for resources, manage your own fantasy village, create and equip your heroes and send them to collect swag in Swag and Sorcery - a new streamlined RPG from the creators of Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper.
Weapon Shop Fantasy
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Merchant.
A shop game with RPG? Or is it RPG with a shop? Collect materials, Craft weapons, Train your staff and defeat your enemy! This is Weapon Shop Fantasy!
MergeCrafter
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression and a chill mood with Merchant.
Ranked #5 for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Merchant.
Welcome to the magical world of Runaria! Explore dungeons, craft tools, chop trees, mine rocks, and discover treasure! Merge identical items to create valuable resources, Craft new tools and upgrade them with powerful enchantments! Setup passive mining drills and tree farms to rebuild your camp!
IdleOn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Merchant.
Ranked #6 for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Merchant.
The management RPG where your heroes keep fighting even when you're gone! Spend their loot on upgrades, unlock classes from Elemental Wizard to Cannon Pirate, and level up 19 unique skills like Farming, Sailing, and even Construction!
Shop Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares market trading, idle progression and a chill mood with Merchant.
Ranked #7 for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Merchant.
Join us in the long anticipated sequel to the classic Shop Heroes in Shop Legends, recently launched on Steam and now available across platform worldwide! Millions of shopkeepers awaits your return to Aragonia as endless adventures, events and more awaits your awakening!
God Awe-full Clicker
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Merchant.
Ranked #8 for Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
God Awe-Full Clicker is an Endless Dungeon Clicker/Idle game full of Greek Mythology and Epic Battles with RPG style aspects.
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Frequently asked about Merchant
- Is Merchant free to play?
- Yes — Merchant is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Merchant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Merchant are PickCrafter, Idle Skilling, Swag and Sorcery.
- Who developed Merchant?
- Merchant was developed by Retora Games.
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 Merchant.
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