Every price you see is the sum of a thousand small decisions — yours and everyone else's.
A Living Economy
Goods don't have fixed prices — they have markets. Every city produces, consumes, and runs short based on the appetites of its people. Flood a port with grain and watch the price collapse; corner the cloth trade and name your number. Twenty trade goods flow through interconnected supply chains, each obeying real supply and demand.
- Buy where it's cheap, sell where it's scarce — and watch your own trades move the market.
- Stock raw materials into factories and turn timber, hemp, and iron into finished goods worth far more.
- Read shortages before your rivals do; a famine in one city is a fortune in your hold.
Build a Trading Empire
One ship becomes a convoy. A convoy becomes a fleet. Set automated trade routes to run your profits while you sleep, raise warehouses and production in the cities that matter, and grow from a back-alley shopkeeper into a power that moves entire regions.
- Establish and automate trade routes across the map.
- Buy, build, and crew a fleet of ships, each captained by characters who grow with experience.
- Invest in cities — production, housing, and infrastructure that compound your wealth.
The Merchant's Ascent
Wealth is only the beginning. Earn the trust of every class of citizen and climb a career ladder that ends in real authority — from Shopkeeper and Trader to Councillor, Lord Mayor, and ultimately the council-elected heights of regional and world leadership. Set tax rates, win elections, embargo your rivals, and bend the politics of the sea to your ledger.
- Rise through nine ranks, each unlocking new powers and ambitions.
- Stand for election, govern cities, and wield political weapons against your competitors.
- Reach the summit — rule the trading world itself.
Rivals, Risk, and Piracy
You are never alone on the water. AI merchants run the same full economy you do — building, trading, and scheming for the same ports and the same titles. And not every sail on the horizon comes in peace. Arm your ships against pirates, defend your convoys, or hoist a black flag of your own and take what the market won't give you.
- Compete against sophisticated AI merchants with no shortcuts or handicaps.
- Mount weapons, fight ship-to-ship battles, and board for the prize.
- Turn pirate — if you're willing to pay the price when the law catches up.
Trade Alone, or Against the World
Master the seas in single-player against the AI, or take your ledger online and compete head-to-head with other players in the same living economy — where the sharpest merchant, not the luckiest, comes out ahead.
Features
- Deep economic simulation — 20 goods, real supply and demand, player-driven prices.
- Production chains — refine raw materials into high-value goods.
- Fleets & captains — ships and crews that grow over a campaign.
- A nine-rank career — from shopkeeper to ruler of the trading world.
- Politics & power — elections, taxes, embargoes, and city governance.
- Naval combat & piracy — defend your trade or prey on others.
- Living rivals — full-fat AI merchants that play by your rules.
- Single-player & multiplayer — build alone or compete online.
Fortunes are made on the open sea. How far will yours rise?