Games like The Merchant's Eden
If The Merchant's Eden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Raid Haven, Mini Worlds and Red Rocket Defencism — 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 Merchant's Eden: Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.
Players who liked The Merchant's Eden also play
Steam players who put hours into The Merchant's Eden 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.
Raid Haven
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Top pick for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
A strategy, wave-based survival game focused on building fortified bases and defending against ever-more-powerful raids. Gear up your pawns with powerful weapons and armour, adapt your defences, and survive wave after wave of increasingly dangerous enemies.
Mini Worlds
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Second-strongest match for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.
Red Rocket Defencism
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Third-strongest match for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
Boitatá: Wilderness Reborn
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Ranked #4 for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
A 2D Tower Defense Survival game inspired by Brazilian folklore. Expand your territory, rescue animals to build your defenses, and use Boitatá's abilities to fight waves of invaders in battles that combine strategy, action, and territory management.
Kingdom III: Rising Realms
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Ranked #5 for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
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Ranked #6 for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
Towers of Babble
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Ranked #7 for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Merchant's Eden.
Word Game Tower Defense. Spell AXE to harvest wood. Spell FORT to make an armored tower. Every word you spell becomes a tower with unique stats and powers. Every word is also a unique level with procedural challenges. 121,683 levels. Together, we must beat them all and talk our way back into heaven.
Crownwarden
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Ranked #8 for The Merchant's Eden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Merchant's Eden.
Build by day, defend by night! In this narrative city builder, take direct control of your ruler to protect the realm. Explore diverse lands, command armies against monstrous hordes and uncover the secrets of the Abyss.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Merchant's Eden at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Merchant's Eden.
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 ~44% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Merchant's Eden.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~45% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Merchant's Eden.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
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 ~44% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Merchant's Eden.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
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 ~44% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Merchant's Eden.
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 ~67% under The Merchant's Eden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Merchant's Eden.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Casual with The Merchant's Eden.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Merchant's Eden
- How much does The Merchant's Eden cost?
- The Merchant's Eden is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Merchant's Eden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Merchant's Eden are Raid Haven, Mini Worlds, Red Rocket Defencism.
- Who developed The Merchant's Eden?
- The Merchant's Eden was developed by Norse Sea Studio.
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