Games like Desolation Tycoon

If Desolation Tycoon scratched a replayable and retro itch for you, keep reading. These games are a good place to start.

Dustland Delivery
A post-apocalyptic survival business sim where you drive a truck across the Dustlands, trade goods between settlements, and build a trading empire. Recruit a crew, turn your rig into a mobile base, weather the storms, and decide whether you end up a hero, a merchant or a bandit.
Replayable, Retro, Dark
87% of 1,277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$7.99
Dust to the End
Lead a merchant caravan across a post-apocalyptic desert in this hand-drawn trading RPG. Buy low in one town, sell high in the next, hire mercenaries with moods of their own, and fight or talk your way past whatever blocks the road. A story of survival and revenge, with multiple endings shaped by your choices.
Replayable, Dark
78% of 1,085 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$11.99
Caravaneer 2
A post-apocalyptic trade sim where you haul goods across a deadly desert, keep your crew and animals alive, and pick a side in a branching story. Buy low, sell high, fight bandits in turn-based battles, and build an economy with your own hands.
Replayable, Retro, Dark
94% of 539 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.99
Dealer's Life Legend
Welcome to the Pecunian Empire, travelling merchant! Head between our many cities, expand your collection of wares and grow your riches. If your talent and skill are sharp enough, you may be in with a shot of winning the Wandering Merchant Quest and proving that YOU are the best dealer in town!
Replayable
81% of 275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
This Merchant Life
This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!
Retro
74% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
A pixel-art trading game with a mean streak: load your cart, hire guards, and haul goods between towns while the roads get more dangerous the greedier you get. Auto battles with active skills, odd quests, and a world that never takes itself seriously.
Retro
78% of 1,569 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$4.99
Rise of the Merchants
Rise of the Merchants is a medieval city, trade and politics simulation in a persistent online world. Grow a small settlement into a trading city, send caravans across the map, and climb to power through coin, connections or cunning. There is no single path to success, and every decision sticks.
Replayable
73% of 134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$24.99
Merchant of the Skies
Captain a little cloudship, buy low, sell high, and grow a trade company in the sky. Trading, production and caravans in a cute pixel world, at your own pace. Start small, end up rich, and build yourself a mansion while you are at it.
Retro
87% of 1,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Soulash 2
A sandbox roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world. Be a blacksmith, thief, necromancer or farmer, craft gear from whatever the wilds offer, raise a settlement, and when you die, continue as your own descendant in a world that keeps living without you.
Replayable, Retro, Dark
85% of 2,416 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$18.99
Merchants of Kaidan
Regain your riches, restore your honor and avenge your father's murder. A challenging trading game with lots of RPG elements.
Replayable, Retro
59% of 232 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and raise a town from nothing: shape the land itself, plant crops, survive winters and disasters, and grow a settlement worth moving to. A colorful, low-pressure survival city builder where every map is new and every town plays out differently.
Replayable, Retro
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 254$19.99
Caravan
Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.
Retro
79% of 681 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99

Cheaper than Desolation Tycoon

Desolate Wastes: Vendor Chronicles

Vendor Chronicles puts you in the shoes of a Vendor in post-apocalyptia!

$1.99

Sunset Routes

Sunset Routes is an easy and intriguing roguelite game. You can choose your crew, put them in the cabins, select your destination, and set sail.

$0.49

Legend of Merchant

Legend of Merchant is a mini-game about trading goods. You will play an ancient eastern merchant, make descisions and make money in limited time.

$1.99

Wastelander

Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.

$2.49

Endless RPG

Play on randomly generated worlds with a party of characters just the way you like it.

$2.49

Patrician III

Start with one ship and a small office, trade across the medieval Baltic, and climb from merchant to powerful figure in the Hanse.

$2.49

Particul

Tap out particles, automate the work and trade your way toward the rarest one.

$1.99

ICY: Frostbite Edition

ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age.

$12.99

Unclaimed World

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim.

$1.18

Pimiko Plus

It's time for Ruho to show 'em how a plumpy mama gets rich! Trade goods ranging from computers to automatic weapons as you visit the towns dotting a…

$1.99

Game Builder Tycoon

In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a…

$0.99

ROD: Revolt Of Defense

Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Desolation Tycoon

Let Them Trade

Place towns on a cheerful board-game map, collect their taxes, and let the little economies hum along at your own pace.

$17.99

TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer

Haul goods between towns in a colorful pixel world, hiring guards for the road and never taking the job too seriously.

$4.99

Dustland Delivery

Haul goods across a broken wasteland, grow a crew and a rig, and decide what kind of legend your trading empire leaves behind.

$7.99

A Merchant's Promise

Medieval Trading & Transport with Physics-Based Items. Start as a Worthless Merchant and work your way up as you carefully handle your goods through…

$14.99

High Seas, High Profits!

Live your medieval trader life! Buy low, sell high and explore the world! Buy ships, build businesses, find or train captains.

$14.99

Dealer's Life Legend

Welcome to the Pecunian Empire, travelling merchant! Head between our many cities, expand your collection of wares and grow your riches.

$14.99

Final Profit: A Shop RPG

Play an exiled fae queen who opens a shop to beat capitalism at its own game.

$14.99

Merchant of the Six Kingdoms

Become a medieval merchant and master the arts of bartering, haggling, and investing, Explore 20 markets, barter with 200 characters, and trade in…

$14.99

Soulash 2

Carve out a life in a grim open world, then watch your bloodline carry on when death comes for you.

$18.99

Necesse

Necesse drops you into an endless pixel world with bare hands and a big idea: build a settlement, recruit settlers to run it, then head out to fight…

$14.99

Snow Ash

Snow Ash is a post-apocalyptic, wasteland-themed card-based trading and survival game.

$14.99

Plains of Pain

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

$19.99

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