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Space Trader: Merchant Marine cover art

Space Trader: Merchant Marine

· Meridian4 · 2008-10-23

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 23, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Space Trader: Merchant Marine is an Action, Indie and Strategy game released in 2008, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (50% of 642 reviews).

0
playing now
50%
positive of 642 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Space Trader is a video game by the Canadian developer HermitWorks Entertainment, for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X released on July 25, 2007. After the game was open-sourced in 2008, an iOS version followed in 2009.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (35 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 26k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 642 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GamersGate$1.25-75%
GOG$1.75-65%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2014-04-28) · bundled 17×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 101 of 152 observed days · $0.76 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820142026Week of 2014-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-10-26 — best price $4.992016-05-09 — best price $1.242016-09-27 — best price $1.242016-12-20 — best price $0.992017-04-17 — best price $0.952017-09-06 — best price $1.002018-02-27 — best price $4.992018-10-01 — best price $4.992019-06-03 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992021-07-08 — best price $4.992022-04-11 — best price $0.992022-08-23 — best price $1.242022-12-10 — best price $4.992023-03-20 — best price $0.992023-06-19 — best price $4.992023-09-28 — best price $4.992024-01-09 — best price $0.992024-03-11 — best price $4.992024-05-09 — best price $4.992024-07-25 — best price $4.992024-10-24 — best price $0.992024-12-13 — best price $1.002025-02-24 — best price $4.992025-05-07 — best price $1.002025-07-25 — best price $1.002025-09-25 — best price $0.992025-11-21 — best price $0.992026-02-02 — best price $4.992026-04-09 — best price $1.752026-06-08 — best price $1.242026-08-01 — best price $1.492026-09-05 — best price $0.992026-09-25 — best price $0.992026-10-14 — best price $1.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-05-29 — 9 pageviews2026-06-02 — 2 pageviews2026-06-06 — 9 pageviews2026-06-10 — 7 pageviews2026-06-14 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 4 pageviews2026-06-22 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 2 pageviews2026-06-30 — 2 pageviews2026-07-04 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 5 pageviews2026-07-12 — 2 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-20 — 10 pageviews2026-07-24 — 6 pageviews2026-07-28 — 5 pageviews2026-08-01 — 3 pageviews2026-08-05 — 3 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-29 — 10 pageviews2026-09-02 — 2 pageviews2026-09-06 — 4 pageviews2026-09-10 — 5 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-18 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 2 pageviews2026-09-26 — 8 pageviews2026-09-30 — 8 pageviews2026-10-04 — 5 pageviews2026-10-08 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

40
achievements tracked
54.6%
earned "Oiled Up! Ready To Go!"
11.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,7484%40

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DFPSActionShooterStrategyCyberpunkLore-RichColony SimDark HumorOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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