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2014PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified59 % positive14.99 €

A trading simulator set in feudal Japan where you start with a single cart and build a merchant career through market knowledge, smart buying and selling, and negotiation, with light RPG elements.

Economy and management
Historical setting
Open world

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The closest matches for Merchants of Kaidan are Sid Meier's Colonization, Sid Meier's Civilization and Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Merchants of Kaidan special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Sid Meier's Colonization 94% match – Historical setting
Newest alternative: Anno 1602: History Edition 90% match – released 2020

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Sid Meier's Colonization

94 %Match

1994PC96 % positive6.99 €

A turn-based 4X strategy game set in the colonial era: you lead a European power in the New World, founding settlements, trading goods, managing resources, and ultimately fighting for independence from the Crown.

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Sid Meier's Civilization

Open world

The founding classic of 4X strategy: guide a civilization from 4000 BC to the space age, researching technologies, founding cities and competing through diplomacy or conquest. This is where the famous 'just one more turn' compulsion began.

Port Royale 3: Pirates & Merchants

Open world

A Caribbean trading and economy sim set in the 17th century: you build trade routes and develop towns, haul goods between ports, and fight real-time naval battles against pirates and rivals when needed.

Caravan

Pure single-player experience

You lead a trading caravan through a pre-medieval Oriental world, moving from town to town and surviving dangerous encounters with bandits, beasts and djinns. Resource management and survival are central.

Europa Universalis III

Open world

A grand strategy classic where you steer one of over 250 nations from 1453 to 1789 through trade, diplomacy, colonization and war. Enormous historical depth and freedom, but a steep learning curve.

Anno 1602: Creation of a New World

Economy and management

A classic city-building strategy game where you settle islands in the 17th century, build production chains, trade and defend your colony. The appeal lies in planning and watching your settlement grow.

Sid Meier's Civilization III

Historical setting

A classic turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead a nation from the ancient age to the modern era. You found cities, research technologies, handle diplomacy and compete through conquest, culture or space travel.

Anno 1602: History Edition

Historical setting

The classic city-building and trading game: you settle islands in the 17th century, build trade routes and a thriving economy, and hold your own against rivals. The History Edition brings the original to modern PCs with 4K support and multiplayer.

Patrician III

Historical setting

A trading and economy simulation set in 14th-century Hanseatic Northern Europe: you rise from a small merchant to a powerful Patrician through trade, shipping, town politics and, if you like, piracy.

16bit Trader

Open world

An indie trading game with a retro pixel look in which you buy and sell goods as a merchant while seeking revenge on your father's killer. It blends economic simulation with light RPG elements.

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