Merchant Prince II is a 2001 turn-based strategy game of economic, political, and military conquest.

The game is developed by Holistic Design and published by Take-Two Interactive under TalonSoft label.

[3] So little was added to gameplay that it was properly a rerelease rather than a sequel, and the changes to the graphics were considered uglier, with a zoomed-in and less user-friendly interface.

)[13] It was largely panned by critics[8][5] and even the positive review by IGN called it a "cheap reissue" and pardoned it only because of the difficulty of finding the original DOS games.

"[5] Kent Conrad found the implementation of the research tree "half-baked" and ended his review with "There is a good game hiding inside of Merchant Prince II, and that game is Machiavelli: The Prince.