Games involving some sort of trading practice

If buying and selling goods is your thing, give these games a try. Every one of them involve trading in some form: buying and selling goods and moving them by sea (Ports of Call), stock exchange (Acquire, Black Monday), smuggling items in deep space (Elite, Frontier).

Most popular trading games

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DOS1992 Max Design

Acquire

DOS1989 IBM

Ascii Sector

Windows 10/11LinuxDOS2007freeware

Baseball Mogul

Windows XP/98/951997 Infinite Monkey Systems

Big Business

DOS1990 Off The Wall Productions

Black Monday

DOS1987 Starsoft Development

Business Simulator

DOS1987 Reality Development

Business Simulator is an abandoned business simulation game developed and released by Reality Development in 1987 for DOS only. Business Simulator is a text-based management simulation designed by an university professor.

Capitalism 2

Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Ensemble Studios

Capitalism 2 is simulation game designed by Trevor Chan, developed by Ensemble Studios and released by UBI Soft in 2001 for Windows and Macintosh. Capitalism 2 is the quintessential capitalistic simulation and involves stock exchange, business management, marketing, etc.

Capitalism Plus

DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Enlight Software

China Sea Trader

DOS1989

Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street

DOS1988protected SoftServ

Dope Wars

Windows XP/98/951998 Beermat Software

Dope Wars is a text-based simulation game that originated as a DOS program in the early 1980s, but gained popularity in its Windows version released in 1998. The game puts players in the role of a drug dealer navigating the underground economy of buying, selling, and transporting various illegal substances.In the Windows version of the game, player...

Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market

DOS1984

Elite

DOS1987freeware Firebird

Elite Plus

DOS1991freeware Realtime Games

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Windows XP/98/951997 Stardock Entertainment

Frontier: Elite 2

DOS1993 Frontier Developments

Frontier: Elite II is a classic space simulation and trading game released in 1993, developed by David Braben and his company Frontier Developments. Frontier is the sequel to the pioneering 1984 game Elite and is often considered a landmark title in the space simulation genre.