Games like Rise of the Merchants
If Rise of the Merchants is your kind of game, the closest matches are Medieval Ascendant, Coins, Crown & Cabal and Anno 117: Pax Romana — 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 Rise of the Merchants: Rise of the Merchants is a medieval city-building, economic, political, and trade simulation set in a persistent online world. Start with a small settlement in your county, develop it into an influential city, and establish a trade network that extends far beyond its borders.
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Steam players who put hours into Rise of the Merchants 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.
Medieval Ascendant
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Top pick for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
From a serf bound to the soil to the head of a noble house. Farm, trade, build an economic empire across five provinces, claim land through war, intrigue or wealth — and forge a dynasty that outlives you.
Coins, Crown & Cabal
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Second-strongest match for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
Build a flourishing trade empire by amassing wealth, influence and power. Outsmart your rivals through political and economic moves and dominate commerce in your county.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
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Third-strongest match for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Anno 1800
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Ranked #4 for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Tropico 6
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Ranked #5 for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Illyriad - Grand Strategy MMO
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Ranked #6 for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
Build a city, Create an Empire! Research 400+ technologies, and Build 70+ buildings, Craft and Trade 380+ items in an entirely player driven market. Fight Wars and Forge Alliances with thousands of players and create your own Empire in this award-winning, critically-acclaimed MMO.
House of Legacy
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Ranked #7 for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Ranked #8 for Rise of the Merchants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
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.
The Lab
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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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
『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 with Rise of the Merchants.
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 Simulation with Rise of the Merchants.
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 Rise of the Merchants
- Does Rise of the Merchants have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rise of the Merchants supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rise of the Merchants?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of the Merchants are Medieval Ascendant, Coins, Crown & Cabal, Anno 117: Pax Romana.
- Who developed Rise of the Merchants?
- Rise of the Merchants was developed by Black Duke 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 Rise of the Merchants.
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