The best 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).

Most popular trading games

Railroad Tycoon

simulationDOS, Mac

Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons

simulationDOS

Protostar: War on the Frontier

vehicle simulationDOS

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Port Royale

Windows XP/98/952002protected4.4/5 ASCARON Entertainment
Capitalism 2

Windows XP/98/95Mac2001protected4.3/5 Ensemble Studios

Capitalism 2 is simulation game designed by Trevor Chan, developed by Ensemble Studios and released by UBI Soft in 2001 for Windows and Macintosh. Capitalism 2 is the quintessential capitalistic simulation and involves stock exchange, business management, marketing, etc.
Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons

DOS19954.3/5 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 set sail with their ship and go wherever you want exploring, fighting, trading, privateering, etc.
Patrician

DOS1992protected4.3/5 ASCARON Entertainment
Oil Imperium

DOS19894.2/5 reLINE Software
Gloriana

DOS19964.2/5 ASCARON Entertainment
Nomad

DOS19934.2/5 Papyrus Design Group
Merchant Colony

DOS19914.2/5 Impressions Games
Ocean Trader

DOS19954.2/5 Software 2000
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe

DOS19934.1/5 MicroProse Software
Machiavelli the Prince

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Holistic Design
Entrepreneur

Windows XP/98/9519974.1/5 Stardock Entertainment
Frontier: Elite 2

DOS19934.1/5 Frontier Developments

Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered a landmark title in the space simulation genre.
Ports of Call

DOS19894.1/5 International Software Development
Sid Meier's Pirates!

DOS1987protected4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Patrician 2: Quest for Power

Windows XP/98/952000protected4.1/5 ASCARON Entertainment
Uncharted Waters

DOS19904.1/5 KOEI
Elite

DOS1987freeware4.1/5 Firebird
Wing Commander: Privateer

Windows XP/98/95DOSMac1993protected4.1/5 Origin Systems
Frontier: First Encounters

DOS19954.1/5 Frontier Developments
Railroad Tycoon

DOSMac1990freeware4.1/5 MicroProse Software
Protostar: War on the Frontier

DOS19934.1/5 Tsunami Media
Elite Plus

DOS1991freeware4.1/5 Realtime Games
Merchant Prince

DOS19934.1/5 Holistic Design
Space Rogue

DOS19894/5 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 bounties, buy and sell goods, land on starbases or outposts and talk to NPCs, do quests, etc.
Seven Cities of Gold (Commemorative Edition)

DOS1993protected4/5 Ozark Softscape
Big Business

DOS19904/5 Off The Wall Productions
Capitalism Plus

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected4/5 Enlight Software
Inside Trader

DOS19874/5 Cosmi Corporation
Rags to Riches

DOS19934/5 Interplay Productions