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Space Trader: Merchant Marine

53% positive of 450 Steam reviews

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Released
2008
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam, GOG, Epic

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • Colony Sim
  • Assassins
  • Diplomacy
  • Gun Customization
  • Cyberpunk
  • FPS
  • Dark Humor
  • Lore-Rich
  • Character Customization
  • Base Building
  • Shooter
  • Economy

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    This game is fairly decent. If you could get over the skinny weapons and sometimes easy and predictable AI, you'll actually enjoy this. It takes place in and around space, where you can carry and trade items for cash. However along the way, you can hunt down targets in bounty hunts, which are styled in a deathmatch type of gamemode, for extra cash. It may not seem like its a shooting game, but they really introduce…

    1 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Ever since I played the original Starflight, I've always had a soft spot for space trading type games. While Space Trader: Merchant Marine has a good trading foundation, it feels severely unpolished and overly repetitious. The game is essentially a hybrid shooter with trading elements. The gameplay is fun, but after the second chapter, you've pretty much done everything there is to do. I'd say most people will get…

    8.4 h played when written. 21 found it helpful.

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