Games like Star Merchant
If Star Merchant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fantasy Kingdom Simulator, Argebe and Stellar Harvest — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, relaxing and retro. 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 Star Merchant: Star Merchant is a galactic trading sim where you become a space entrepreneur. Buy and sell items, fight pirates, upgrade your ship and try to meet your goal without going broke!
Players who liked Star Merchant also play
Steam players who put hours into Star 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.
Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Star Merchant.
Top pick for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Fantasy Kingdom Simulator transports you into a medieval realm where you reign as King of four villages, and your duty is to help them grow and blossom into fully developed cities. You'll be making meaningful choices, important decisions and face the consequences if you plan poorly.
Argebe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
A deliberately simplistic strategy game about equal opportunities and outplaying your opponents with stone cold logic
Stellar Harvest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Harvest energy across the solar system. Build generators on alien worlds, prestige for Dark Energy, and construct a Dyson Sphere around the Sun. Ten planets. Infinite power. One way home.
Planet Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Star Merchant.
Ranked #4 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
A small quick game about building a factory to launch planets into a solar system! Grow your base and increase production to make the ultimate factory for launching planets!
Copacetic
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Merchant.
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Galactic Economy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Your road to financial freedom leads to the stars. Acquire strategic sectors, manage complex loans, and mitigate systemic risks to grow your passive income. A gritty sci-fi tycoon strategy game where every decision determines your path to galactic domination.
Space Hoarders Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Merchant.
A Sci-Fi turn based resource management game where you mine, craft and ship resources across the galaxy while trading, spying and battling NPCs along the way.
Star Haul Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Star Merchant.
Star Haul Tycoon is a narrative logistics sim where efficiency is the only path to profit. Connect planets, manage a fleet of transport ships and optimize complex supply chains. In an economy where fuel equals money, you must pay off your massive corporate debt to a supervisor who's always watching.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Star Merchant at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Star Merchant on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Star Merchant.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Star Merchant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Merchant.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Star Merchant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Star Merchant.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Star Merchant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Merchant.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Star Merchant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Star Merchant.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Merchant.
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
WHY THIS
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Star Merchant.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Star Merchant.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from SimProse Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by SimProse Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Redemption: Eternal Quest
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Star Merchant.
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Redemption: Eternal Quest is a casual RPG/Sim game which combines the feel of an RPG with roster management sim mechanics. You become the leader of a band of adventurers, guiding them through quests, watching them grow and signing them to pacts while keeping your gold pouch filled.
Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Star Merchant.
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Fantasy Kingdom Simulator transports you into a medieval realm where you reign as King of four villages, and your duty is to help them grow and blossom into fully developed cities. You'll be making meaningful choices, important decisions and face the consequences if you plan poorly.
Elysium: Blood Games
WHY THIS
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Enter a world of blood, influence and secrets in this easy to learn, yet deep strategy sim where you control a group of Gladiators, guiding them through combat and competition. Bribe, gamble and slash your way to an arena championship!
Streets of Chaos
WHY THIS
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Streets of Chaos is a unique strategy/board game where you become the leader of a resistance in an apocalyptic world. Features a randomly generated world each game, high-res graphics and original music, and an open-ended strategy model that evolves and encourages thought and planning.
Cavern of Time
WHY THIS
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
The Cavern of Time is an RPG/Adventure game where you guide the journey of a young girl. Can you find the magical locket in this perilous realm and cure your beloved grandmother's illness? Visit the Cavern of Time and find out!
Catacombs 1: Demon War
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Star Merchant.
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Indie with Star Merchant.
Catacombs 1: Demon War is the first of a 3-chapter RPG/Adventure that puts you into the shoes of a brave young hero, building your strength to face long-buried secrets, deception and betrayal.
Nightingale Downs
WHY THIS
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Casual with Star Merchant.
You play a deer, tasked by your clan leader with a most urgent mission: Find and sabotage the plans of a local human settlement, intent on destroying your homeland. Your journey will be long, through dangerous jungles and facing many natural predators. Will you save your home?
Finish Line Manager
WHY THIS
Another title from SimProse Studios, the studio behind Star Merchant. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Ever dreamed of owning and managing your own car racing team? Redline Ultimate Racing allows you to make your dreams come true! Take control of either a randomly generated racing universe or load your own custom-created universe into the game.
Frequently asked about Star Merchant
- How much does Star Merchant cost?
- Star Merchant is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Star Merchant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Star Merchant are Fantasy Kingdom Simulator, Argebe, Stellar Harvest.
- Who developed Star Merchant?
- Star Merchant was developed by SimProse Studios and published by Conglomerate 5.
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