A retro trading tycoon game inspired by classics such as Dope Wars, Trade Wars and Gazillionaire. With a classic Game Boy color palette for maximum nostalgia!

Travel between the planets and try to earn 20 million credits in 40 weeks.

Visit exotic planets, gamble in the casino, play the lottery and don't forget to upgrade your ship.

Features a procedurally generated solar system. Every game is different!

Play it here online or download it for Android.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
AuthorPeanut Panda
GenreSimulation
Made withlibGDX
TagsGame Boy, Space, Trading, Tycoon

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Nice game, unfortunately too much depends on luck... and I strongly believe that getting to $20M is just a lucky shot. I spend some time building spreadsheets and analyzing strategies and came out with few conclusions I'd like to share.

I've took a median price over few games, and from there I've calculated where are the best buy/sell price spots taking into account that you pay 15% of tax and you want another 15% of your trade margin as minimum. So table sums up list of commods, sample name (that changes each game), max buy price, median price, min sell price:

#Mid PriceBuy MaxSell Min
1150127172
2200170230
3250212287
4325276373
5450382517
6600510690
7750637862
811009351265
9150012751725
10220018702530

Following these prices guidelines will get you solid results usually in Few millions. Rest is luck, as some events can suddenly triple your account, or turn it to zero.

(Remark - I've check also the distributions of prices vs the the originating planets and the stocks size so it really does not matter to which planet you are flying next, it does not matter for the the stock sizes or has no  real impact on the prices - saddly).

Anyways, Each planet Entire market total value is max $1M - $1.5M so really hard to get your truck to be full of goodies get to value of $20M w/o any extra ordinary event. 

When you suddenly after lucky event get in few $M in cash usually you can buy out entire planet one after another and then the game balance suffers horribly... the strategy then turns into buy all everywhere, don't sell anything, fly around and keep fingers crossed for next high price event to fire so you can sell commod for couple $K a piece, then buy all again and repeat.

I dislike that randomness to be honest. Anyways, had some fun on figuring this out... cheers!

Please make a downloadable copy of this game, as well as an endless version. Or at least a version where you can set the win conditions. I love how casual this game is, and how relaxing. Please expand on this. If you can, could you make it multiplatform? I'm running Linux.

I'm glad you enjoy the game and thanks for playing!

At this time, there is sadly no downloadable version planned. But there is still the Android version Space Trader - Apps on Google Play.

Managed to make it to 1.4 million first try, I feel like there may be a strategy to win beyond luck but would require more play throughs to find out.

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Great remake/reboot of space trader

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Brilliant game, addictive!

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buy, sell, but never reach your goal! is it even possible? a super fun game, waiting for updates, hope it will keep being updated indefinitely!