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Games like Space Trader: Merchant Marine
2008 · Windows
Steam: 49 % positive of 642 reviews, as of Oct 18
Space Trader is an open world trading colony sim wrapped in a shooter. Start as a Rookie and earn your way to Master using shrewd trades, back alley deals, bribes, and well-placed bullet. Buy low, sell high and don’t take no for an answer.
24 games that play like Space Trader: Merchant Marine and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Pawn Planet, Marauders and Space Commander: War and Trade.
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By gameplay
Plays like Space Trader: Merchant Marine
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Pawn Planet
80 % positive of 210
Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
Marauders
71 % positive of 20,679
Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
Space Commander: War and Trade
67 % positive of 656
Shared: Base-Building · Choices Matter · Economy
Pawn Planet: First Sales
86 % positive of 168
Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
X4: Foundations
79 % positive of 23,847
Shared: Strategy · First-Person · Base-Building
Evochron Mercenary
77 % positive of 432
Shared: Open World · Sci-fi · Action
Rebel Galaxy
85 % positive of 8,060
Shared: Shooter · Strategy · Open World
Elite Dangerous
77 % positive of 100,024
Shared: Strategy · First-Person · Open World
Star Traders: Frontiers
84 % positive of 3,623
Shared: Strategy · Open World · Economy
SpaceBourne 2
78 % positive of 4,117
Shared: Strategy · First-Person · Lore-Rich
EVERSPACE™ 2
86 % positive of 11,628
Shared: Shooter · Open World · Sci-fi
SPACERIFT: Arcanum System
78 % positive of 431
Shared: Cyberpunk · Open World · Economy
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- Evochron Legacy SE82 % positive of 421Shared: First-Person · Open World · Sci-fi
- Frontier Pilot Simulator69 % positive of 916Shared: First-Person · Lore-Rich · Open World
- Star Nomad 271 % positive of 158Shared: Strategy · Cyberpunk · Choices Matter
- Star Valor89 % positive of 2,784Shared: Open World · Sci-fi · Action
- Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator92 % positive of 746Shared: First-Person · Economy
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker89 % positive of 20,422Shared: Strategy · First-Person · Open World
- X3: Terran Conflict85 % positive of 2,791Shared: Strategy · First-Person · Open World
- Fortune's Run92 % positive of 539Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
- VoidExpanse71 % positive of 748Shared: Character Customization · Strategy · Open World
- Starminer73 % positive of 1,917
- Marathon76 % positive of 64,764
By look
Looks like Space Trader: Merchant Marine
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
94 % positive of 14,552
Half-Life: Blue Shift
92 % positive of 18,794
Startopia
89 % positive of 934
System Shock® 2 (1999)
94 % positive of 7,611
Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded
91 % positive of 3,283
Evil Genius
93 % positive of 3,506
Nuclear Dawn
78 % positive of 2,468
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
96 % positive of 3,133
UFO: Aftermath
78 % positive of 306
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
96 % positive of 4,288
Half-Life
96 % positive of 148,221
Alien Shooter 2 Conscription
81 % positive of 586
More matches
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- Half-Life: Opposing Force95 % positive of 25,561
- Space Rangers HD: A War Apart94 % positive of 6,666
- Red Faction86 % positive of 2,780
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch90 % positive of 14,296
- Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War77 % positive of 235
- Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter96 % positive of 1,855
- Deus Ex: Invisible War57 % positive of 2,291
- STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™95 % positive of 16,044
At a glance
What games like Space Trader: Merchant Marine have in common
- The tags they share most often with Space Trader: Merchant Marine: Open World (13 of 24), First-Person (12) and Strategy (9).
- They came out between 2008 and 2026, 23 of them after Space Trader: Merchant Marine (2008).
- Best rated by Steam players: Star Valor (89 % positive of 2,784).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.