Games like Trade Empire
If Trade Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Victoria 3, SkyChart: Airline Executive and East India Company — 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 Trade Empire: Trade Empire is a medieval trade strategy game. Create your merchant, start trading in your chosen city, and use diplomatic moves to take control of trade across the entire map and eliminate your rivals.
Players who liked Trade Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into Trade Empire 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.
Victoria 3
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Top pick for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
SkyChart: Airline Executive
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trade Empire.
Inspired by Aerobiz. Build a global airline empire across 90 years of aviation history. Open routes between 496 real-world cities, buy or lease 66 historical aircraft, outmaneuver 35 rival CEOs, and survive the Great Depression, oil shocks, 9/11, and COVID.
East India Company
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Third-strongest match for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trade Empire.
Trade exotic goods, command fleets, and dominate 17th-century seas. This blend of real-time strategy and naval warfare lets you build a trading empire across Europe and Asia. Strategize trade routes, engage in epic naval battles, and expand your influence to become the ultimate maritime force.
Hedge Fund Tycoon
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Ranked #4 for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Are you ready to climb the ranks of the elite and become the wealthiest hedge fund in the world? In this thrilling new stock market game, you'll trade stocks, bonds, and use corruption to achieve your goals. Don't miss your chance to dominate the world of finance and amass a fortune.
Just Power: The Papal States
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Ranked #5 for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Are you ready to found a dynasty which controls the Holy See over the centuries? Climb the hierarchies, hire your relatives, blackmail and bribe to get everything you want in this turn-based political simulator.
Becoming Pablo
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Ranked #6 for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Rule the underworld in Becoming Pablo. A grand-strategy city-builder set in the gritty 70s-90s drug trade. Lead a cartel, conquer territories, manage operations, and outsmart your rivals. This isn't just about building an empire. It's about surviving it.
Gilded Destiny
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Ranked #7 for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.
Age of Enlightenment
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Ranked #8 for Trade Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trade Empire.
Shape the destiny of the world as an 18th century ruler. Forge alliances and prepare your armed forces to expand your domain and colonize new lands. Or focus on internal development and help your subjects thrive with prudent economic policy and lawmaking. The choice is yours in Age of Enlightenment!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Trade Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trade Empire.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trade Empire.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trade Empire.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trade Empire.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trade Empire.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Trade Empire.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Trade Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trade Empire.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trade Empire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Trade Empire.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trade Empire.
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.
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Trade Empire.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trade Empire.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trade Empire.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Trade Empire
- How much does Trade Empire cost?
- Trade Empire is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Trade Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trade Empire are Victoria 3, SkyChart: Airline Executive, East India Company.
- Who developed Trade Empire?
- Trade Empire was developed by Valengate.
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 Trade Empire.
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