The most popular trading games
If buying and selling goods is your thing, give these games a try. Every one of them involve trading in some form: buying and selling goods and moving them by sea (Ports of Call), stock exchange (Acquire, Black Monday), smuggling items in deep space (Elite, Frontier).
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Iron Seed
DOS1994freeware
Dope Wars
Windows XP/98/951998 Beermat Software
Dope Wars is a text-based simulation game that originated as a DOS program in the early 1980s, but gained popularity in its Windows version released in 1998. The game puts players in the role of a drug dealer navigating the underg...
Wing Commander: Privateer
Windows XP/98/95DOSMac OS1993protected Origin Systems
Capitalism 2
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Ensemble Studios
If spreadsheets are your love language, Capitalism 2 is pure romance. This brutally detailed simulation lets you create your own corporate empire from scratch—manufacturing, retail, real estate, stock markets... even farming...
Ocean Trader
DOS1995 Software 2000
Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons
DOS1995 KOEI
Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons is an abandoned simulation game, sequel of Uncharted Waters, developed and released by KOEI in 1995. The Uncharted Waters series is set in the Age of Discovery and gives the player the freedom to s...
China Sea Trader
DOS1989
Inside Trader
DOS1987 Cosmi Corporation
Entrepreneur
Windows XP/98/951997 Stardock Entertainment
Patrician
DOS1992protected ASCARON Entertainment
Machiavelli the Prince
DOS1995protected Holistic Design
Traders
DOS1992 Linel
Uncharted Waters
DOS1990 KOEI
Railroad Tycoon
DOSMac OS1990freeware MicroProse Software
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
DOS1993 MicroProse Software
Elite
DOS1987freeware Firebird
Capitalism Plus
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Enlight Software
Before there was Capitalism 2, there was Capitalism Plus, which basically took the original and added a few bells, whistles, and ways to fail spectacularly. It’s like being handed a multi-billion dollar toy box and told &ldq...
Ascii Sector
Windows 10/11LinuxDOS2007freeware
Ascii Sector is what happens when someone takes Privateer, removes the graphics, and replaces them with pure ASCII and sheer willpower. It’s open-world space sim meets roguelike: you trade, fight, explore, get stabbed in sha...
Ports of Call
DOS1989 International Software Development
Space Rogue
DOS1989 Origin Systems
Space Rogue is a science fiction RPG developed by Richard Garriott's Origin and desined by Paul Neurath. Space Rogue combines a 3D space simulation with a top down view RPG gameplay. As a space pilot you can hunt bou...
Moonbase
DOS1990 Wesson International
Rags to Riches
DOS1993 Interplay Productions
Nomad
DOS1993 Papyrus Design Group
Baseball Mogul
Windows XP/98/951997 Infinite Monkey Systems
Baseball Mogul (1997) was the original release that kicked off the whole franchise. Developed by Clay Dreslough and published by Infinite Monkey Systems, this was a pioneer in the world of sports management sims. It was released f...
Gloriana
DOS1996 ASCARON Entertainment
Big Business
DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions
Step into the gray, morally ambiguous world of corporate domination with Big Business. It’s Monopoly with fewer dice and more spreadsheets. Crush your competitors, manipulate markets, and remember — hostile takeovers a...
Merchant Colony
DOS1991 Impressions Games
Xiphos
DOS1990
Zeppelin: Giants of the Sky
DOS1995 Ikarion Software
Ever dreamed of running a transatlantic zeppelin empire during the golden age of flight? Zeppelin: Giants of the Sky lets you do just that — and it’s every bit as niche and charming as it sounds. You build, manage, and...
Patrician 2: Quest for Power
Windows XP/98/952000protected ASCARON Entertainment
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