Games Like Argosy

Begin with a single ship and a handful of coin. Buy low, sail far, sell high — then turn profit into power. Argosy is a deep maritime trading simulation where a living economy rewards the sharp-eyed and punishes the careless. There are no quests to hand you a fortune; there is only the sea, the market, and your judgement. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fortunes are made on the open sea. How far will yours rise?