Games like This Merchant Life
If This Merchant Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue, Loot Goblins and Between Adventures IDLE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its heroes offer special buffs, chill and contemplative. 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 This Merchant Life: This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!
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Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with This Merchant Life.
Top pick for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.
Loot Goblins
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Second-strongest match for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
Crack open chests, chain buffs and recruit the ultimate goblin crew. Send them deeper into dungeons. Get better loot. Repeat!
Between Adventures IDLE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
Idle RPG Strategy game where you gather resources, battle creatures, and upgrade your gear. Master 10+ skills to create items you can equip or sell. Your journey never stops, even offline. No Microtransactions, No P2W, just pure idle fun.
Tinyfolks
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with This Merchant Life.
Ranked #4 for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
Train your folks, defeat monsters and upgrade your town!
暗夜时代 Age of Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
《Age of Dark》is a turn-based strategy RPG. Players must: (1) Command their team, utilizing all available skills to battle powerful enemies; (2) Explore the map, gather resources and equipment to strengthen their squad. The initial release includes approximately 3 hours of main story content.
RuneCipher
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
RuneCipher is a tactics RPG that combines turn-based strategy with active combat. Recruit unlikely allies, explore long-forgotten ruins, and uncover the secrets of an ancient magic to save your guild in this Strategy RPG inspired by genre classics.
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with This Merchant Life.
Ranked #7 for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with This Merchant Life.
Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.
Patrician III
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for This Merchant Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with This Merchant Life.
Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This Merchant Life at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with This Merchant Life.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with This Merchant Life.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with This Merchant Life.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under This Merchant Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with This Merchant Life.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with This Merchant Life.
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Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with This Merchant Life.
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This Merchant Life.
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Frequently asked about This Merchant Life
- Does This Merchant Life run on Steam Deck?
- This Merchant Life is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does This Merchant Life cost?
- This Merchant Life is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to This Merchant Life?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This Merchant Life are Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue, Loot Goblins, Between Adventures IDLE.
- Who developed This Merchant Life?
- This Merchant Life was developed by Inexplicable Games.
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