The Game Census
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.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 41% of 10,970 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–51k copies

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

Current store prices

GOG$0.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-80%

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 75 of 125 observed days · $0.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — 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 $1.492026-08-30 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1202026-05-29 — 9 pageviews2026-06-01 — 6 pageviews2026-06-04 — 5 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-10 — 7 pageviews2026-06-13 — 6 pageviews2026-06-16 — 3 pageviews2026-06-19 — 9 pageviews2026-06-22 — 7 pageviews2026-06-25 — 3 pageviews2026-06-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-01 — 3 pageviews2026-07-04 — 7 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-10 — 10 pageviews2026-07-13 — 10 pageviews2026-07-16 — 5 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-22 — 5 pageviews2026-07-25 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 5 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-03 — 3 pageviews2026-08-06 — 4 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 6 pageviews2026-08-15 — 11 pageviews2026-08-18 — 5 pageviews2026-08-21 — 6 pageviews2026-08-24 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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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