Games like Star Merchant
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to Star Merchant for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Star Merchant also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, more from SimProse Studios. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
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.
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Argebe
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
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Planet Factory
Third-strongest match 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!
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Under Domain - Alien Invasion Simulator
Ranked #4 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Under Domain - Alien Invasion Simulator will surprise you with a Sci-fi turn-based game completely different from others. How about turning yourself into an Alien and planning an invasion to Planet Earth? You can secretly influence human history and build war machines to exterminate human beings.
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Space Hoarders Inc.
Ranked #5 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.
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Cosmic Outpost
Ranked #6 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Cosmic Outpost is a turn-based strategy game where you build an outpost on a new planet. As pioneers, you will construct an outpost while defending against enemies. Gather enough materials to build a spaceship to explore new worlds and expand humanity's frontiers!
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Rubikingdom
Ranked #7 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Run your very own kingdom on a rubik's cube. Collect resources to develop your kingdom. Fight off raiders. Face events like famine, disease, and corruption of the land. Buy a favor from your god, pay tribute, or ignore them and feel their wrath. How long will you reign?
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Galactic Empire
Ranked #8 for Star Merchant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Star Merchant.
Galactic Empire is a 2D turn-based strategy game where you, as the Commander, decide the fate of the entire universe. Expand your planet, explore solar systems, play cards in cantinas, modify your ships and conquer more planets.
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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.
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Redemption: Eternal Quest
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.
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Fantasy Kingdom Simulator
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.
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Elysium: Blood Games
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!
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Streets of Chaos
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.
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Cavern of Time
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!
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Catacombs 1: Demon War
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.
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Nightingale Downs
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?
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Finish Line Manager
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, Planet Factory.
- Who developed Star Merchant?
- Star Merchant was developed by SimProse Studios and published by Conglomerate 5.
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 Star Merchant.
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