Trading is a type of video games deal with mostly RPG, Space, and RTS genres, in which the player assumes the role of the protagonist, explore the available world, space environment, or sea to gather resources. Games of this type emphasise the struggle of merchant and trader involving the transportation of goods to make a profit, often as a smuggler, freelance agent or privateer. The player as the trader can start the game from the beginner level, gain experience by collecting resources, interact with Non-player Characters, and trade with them to earn money. These games usually take place in 2D or 3D worlds where the player manipulates the environment from a first-person, a third-person, or side-scroll perspectives. In RTS games, the player needs to gather resources and trade with NPCs to advance through the game, while in Driving game like Hard Truck, the player takes on the role of the truck driver, explore the realistic locations to deliver cargo within time to the specific areas to earn money. After making enough money, the player can set up his own business and deals with NPCs or other players to become the business tycoon.

11 Best Trading Games on Steam

#1 Turmoil

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Turmoil is a Business Simulation developed and published by Gamious and supports Single-player mode only. The game offers an exciting gameplay inspired by the oil rush. During the gameplay, the player has to earn money to become the successful entrepreneur. The primary objective is to make money by digging up and selling oil, upgrade his town, and purchase horses and bigger pipes. There are different levels and each level comes with a set of objective that the player has to accomplish at any cost. It introduces a new campaign mode, in which the player can purchase land at an auction, and dig it for oil using multiple dowsers, scanners, or moles. The player can compete against other three AI-controlled characters in each level to show off his abilities. Turmoil offers core features such as Dozens of Upgrades, Achievements, Lease Land, Earn Profit, Trading Cards, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

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#2 Infinity Wars

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Infinity Wars is a cool digital Card Collecting and Trading video game that takes you to amazing wars of all times. With a brilliant Casual mode named as Merged Deck, Infinity Wars mixes the card decks of both players and lets you win over your opponent by using your best skills and strategies. With a lot of amazing things like Quests, Concurrent game-play, Turn-based multiplayer fun and a challenging puzzle environment, Infinity Wars lets you assess your abilities to the limits. Infinity Wars is available to play on Android, iPhone, PC and Mac OS X. Try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the Ultimate Trading Card fun.

#3 X3: Terran Conflict

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X3: Terran Conflict mixes different genres such as Trading, Combat, Exploration, and Space Simulation. It is developed by Egosoft and published by Deep Silver. The game takes place in the massive space environments and lets the player explore the game world from first-person perspective. To get into the game world, the player must create and customize his/her starship with different items. There are different races such as Xenon, Terran, Split and more and the player can select one of them and start his journey to navigate ship around different sectors. The game world comprises thousands of stations and ships and the player can create his colony, gather resources, and trade with NPCs to earn money. He has to fight against rival alien races to protect his colony and defeat them to earn amazing rewards. The Ship can be upgraded by using experience points that the player earned by complete objectives. X3: Terran Conflict includes key features such as New Factions, Largest X Universe, over 100 Spaceship, Management Tools and more. Try it out.

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#4 X3: Reunion

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X3: Reunion focuses on Space Trading, Exploration, and Combat. It is the third entry in the series of X Universe Adventure and the direct sequel to X2: The Threat. It supports single-player mode and plays from the first-person perspective. It takes place in the massive space environment and lets the player get into the role of the protagonist who is a space explorer. There are different types of spaceship such as a powerful battleship, freighters, small ship, fast, massive carriers, scouting ships and more. Select one of them and dive into the game world where you can explore the game world freely without any task or could complete a series of challenging missions to earn experience points and trade with NPCs. The story of the game starts where the X2 left off. The game takes place in the fictional Universe called X. According to the story, the Kha’ak are destroying all the popular areas of the Universe and the father of Julian named Kyle is still in a coma. Assume the role of the protagonist, customize your starship and pilot it. Collect rare artifact and use them to unlock further content and enhance your abilities. You can use special gem to open a portal to Earth and can fight against a mysteries alien alliances. Save the world from devastation and complete all objectives. X3 Reunion offers core features, addictive gameplay, and the best mechanics. Try it out.

#5 X Rebirth

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X Rebirth is an addictive Space Simulation by Egosoft and offers the similar gameplay like Sins of a Solar Empire. It is an Action-Adventure, Combat, Trading, Sandbox, Sci-fi, and Single-player game. The game takes place in the X-Universe near the future. In the game, the player can assume the role of the protagonist and the game revolves around combat, piracy, trade, and others. The primary goal of the player is to gain wealth and build his own space station and control fleet of starships and expand it. It sets the player on an epic adventure where he must collect items and fight against aliens and other factions with the use of various weapons, and must defeat them to save his space station and earn a lot of money. The game offers the open-ended game world and allows the player immersive himself in action-packed space combat experience. In the game, the player can build his own empire, trade with large factories, and crush his enemies. X Rebirth includes core features such as Trade, Build, Customization, Fight, Upgrades, Unique Weapons System, Economy System, and others. With the exciting gameplay, brilliant mechanics, superb visuals, and smooth controls, X Rebirth is the excellent game to play and enjoy.

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#6 Endless Sky

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Endless Sky is a 2D Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi, Sandbox, Space Trading, and Single-player Exploration video game created and published by Michael Zahniser for multiple platforms. It mainly focuses on space trading and combat elements and offers the superb gameplay inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. You as the protagonist must work your way up from a cargo ship, wimpy shuttle, or a fighter, to customize and upgrade the flagship to progress through the game. The game rewards you with money for each completed levels, and you can use to unlock further content. Earn as much money as possible by carrying passengers or cargo, bounty hunting, escorting convoys, or plundering the enemy ships. It takes place in the large galaxy consists of hundreds of start system, planets and several alien species with unique technology. The game becomes tough to play, as you advance to score enough points. During the gameplay, you can interact with non-player characters, encounter alien species and take down them to advance through the story. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Endless Sky is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

#7 NAEV

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NAEV is a Space Exploration, Combat, and Single-player video game developed and published by Naev Team for Steam and Microsoft Windows. It takes place in the huge galaxy comprises lots of planets, space stations, and alien species. It mixes the Navigation, Combat, Trading, and Real-time Resource Management elements to offers the thrilling gameplay. According to the story, the space environment is full of dangers, alien species and friends. The player as the protagonist must select one of different spaceships in the beginning of the game and start his adventure to earn money by fighting, trading and performing various missions. It comes with a huge environment with hundreds of planets and moon to navigate. The game offers the similar gameplay to Escape Velocity series and introduces multiple factions each with unique personalities and unique ship design. The player needs to pilot his ship his way, explore the huge space, land on planets, space stations or moon the player wish to collect items and trade with non-player characters to raise his as money as much as possible to become the master. NAEV offers prominent features such as Semi-Newtonian Gameplay, Buy different Ships, Multiple Factions, Freedom of Modelling and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#8 Drox Operative

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Drox Operative is an Action Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi themed Single-player and Multiplayer 4X video game developed and published by Soldak Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers a starship action gameplay with warring alien species and fierce space battles. It takes place in the stunning galaxy full of planets, asteroids, space stations, moon, and new worlds. The player serves as the protagonist, a spaceship pilot, who must manipulate the galaxy to encounter new worlds, discover new stars, and battle against alien species to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land from a top-down perspective, interact with non-player characters and earn money by trading, defeat enemies, and more. There are several playable factions available each with a set of objectives, upgrades, and ships. The player explores the evolving and dynamic galaxy, take part in the galactic war between various alien races and can destroy hundreds of enemy starships to become the master. Dynamic Galaxy, Monsters, Galactic War, Hundreds of Enemy Starships, Build your Starship, etc. are prominent features in the game.

#9 VoidExpanse

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VoidExpanse is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Space Exploration, Sci-fi themed, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by AtomicTorch Studio for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the huge world and mixes the Action Role-playing, and Science-fiction element set in deep space. The player takes on the role of the spaceship pilot with a task to manipulate the large galaxy, encounter planets, space stations, space pirates and several alien species as well as friends. During the gameplay, the player needs to mine asteroids for valuables, collect resources, trade to upgrade his ship, and effort to complete the requirements of story-based missions offered by one of different faction each with its unique agendas, characters, and skill trees. It offers Sandbox feature, enabling the player build, craft, trade, explore, deploy, battle and trade his way to earn experience points. VoidExpanse offers prominent features such as Open Exploration, Upgrade your Ship, Real-time Combat System, Multiple Factions, Character Customization, Trading System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#10 Sunless Sea

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Sunless Sea is a mix of Exploration, Surreal, Role-playing and Rogue-like elements developed and published by Failbetter Games for multiple platforms. It offers the universe of Fallen London where the game takes place, in which the fictional London has been moved under the surface of the Earth to the Unterzee’s edge. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is a steamship captain and must explore the dungeons to battle against enemies and complete a series of quests to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player collects resources and can use to discover new locations, trading goods across the stunning environment, battling ships and take down zee monsters to advances through the plot. There are various types of rogue-like gameplay such as procedurally generated maps, permanent death, subsequent characters and more. The world is split into multiple islands and each island has a variety of quests, enemy types, and more. The player can sell items to earn money and use to raise his level. Sunless Sea is an addictive game to play and enjoy.

#11 Offworld Trading Company

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Offworld Trading Company is another great City-Building, Management, MMO-RTS, Economic and Exploration video game. This wonderful game allows you to leave the Earth out of Curiosity and start exploring planet Mars, build mining facilities on the surface and gather resources as an Offworld Trading Company, process the resources in your other facilities and finally sell them onto Earth and other Planets in the Galaxy. As this game is all about Trading and Economics, Offworld Trading Company allows you to manipulate the market by your varying products, manufacture new technologies with the help of Martian resources, Sell them in the markets, generate revenue and spend it on enhancing your company and resources like machinery, operators, and other necessary things. Offworld Trading Company offers single-player campaign and allows you to be in full control of your actions and receive the possible outcome based on the decisions you make. With a marvelous game setting, Sci-fi aesthetics, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Offworld Trading Company is a fun game to play.