Mercator overview

Overview

Mercator comes from rudderbucky and is published by rudderbucky. It arrived on Steam on Nov 1, 2025, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Mercator's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 10:41:22 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 100% positive across 2 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Mercator is available in 2 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Mercator has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Mercator overview details

Mercator combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Mercator (pronounced like the map projection) is an item shop game inspired primarily by Swords and Potions and Recettear. You will trade with customers and set up shops across the world with ships, caravans and more! Shopkeeping You start off with a tiny shack in Muziris, an ancient Indian trading port. Your objective as a fledgling merchant is to maximize profits by making good deals with the customers that roam into your shop. In time, you will expand your emporium by buying properties and joining forces with other merchants. No item shop game is complete without haggling! In Mercator you can ask for better deals at any time in a negotiation, and even remove/add items in a back-and-forth, iterative process. In Mercator customers may have wildly different valuations of the same item. No "value" for a given item is provided to you either, so it's truly up to you to decide how much an item is worth. As a merchant, you will have access to workers who can make artisan items from raw materials, as well as research new items, scrap items back into their raw materials, and even reverse-engineer items you come across! Later on, you will gain access to ships and caravans to encounter new regions and engage in arbitrage. Day-night cycle The work of a merchant does not end when the shop closes. At night, you will still be able to purchase new properties and farmland, scavenge for resources, farm ancient cash crops like the legendary black pepper, traverse rivers and lakes with boats, and even fish in your spare time! Roleplaying in a rich, real world Mercator takes place…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Mercator is listed as a game with $5.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, RPG, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 10:41:22 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 100% positive reviews.

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