In Dragon Market, players try to manipulate the boats in a river to collect the objects they need to complete the objective cards.

In more detail, each player begins the game with their figure on a pontoon in the corner of the board, and they take turns placing the boats on the board, with each boat occupying three spaces; some boats have a sailor in the center space, while others have a sailor in the end seat. Each of the two empty spaces on each boat is filled with two identical merchandise tiles, and the game includes twenty types of merchandise. Each player begins the game with an objective card showing four different types of merchandise.

In one turn, the active player rolls the dice to determine how many actions he can perform; he can spend 1-2 coins to add to this number of actions. The actions are:

Slide a boat: You may move a boat any number of unoccupied spaces forward or backward; a boat may not be moved sideways. Rotate a ship: You may rotate a ship 90° around its sailor through the unoccupied spaces. Move your figure: You may move your figure one space from a pontoon to a ship's space that is empty or occupied by merchandise tiles or from one space to another or from a ship to a pontoon; you may not move your figure on a sailor. When you move your figure to a merchandise tile on your target card, you can pick it up.

If you don't spend all your actions, take coins equal to the number of unspent actions to save them for later. As soon as you have all the merchandise needed for your target card, return to your pontoon. Once you do, draw a second target card, and whoever completes two target cards first wins.

Dragon Market also contains advanced target cards that display 3-4 types of merchandise as well as a bonus. At the start of the game, each player draws two cards and keeps one of them. As soon as the player returns to his pontoon with the goods depicted, he reveals this target card, and then has access to this bonus, which provides a one-time effect or an effect that can be used once in each turn. They also draw two new target cards and keep one of them - whoever completes three target cards first wins!

The game also includes team rules for regular and advanced objective cards.

In Dragon Market, players try to manipulate the boats in a river to collect the objects they need to complete the objective cards.

In one turn, the active player rolls the dice to determine how many actions he can perform; he can spend 1-2 coins to add to this number of actions. The actions are:

The game also includes team rules for regular and advanced objective cards.