StockUp

Not a true market simulation in the sense that all price fluctuations are completely random and there aren't any real trends to follow. What seems to be the winning strategy is to pick a few low-value stocks in the beginning and hope the game decides to arbitrarily 'boost' one of them, which doesn't take any skill or pattern recognition/business acumen at all, just blind luck.

StockUp is a very poorly made text based spreadsheet simulator where you're supposed to play the stock market, however, while you can buy and sell stocks, the market itself does not behave like a stock market. Stocks just tick up and down randomly... and the purpose of a simulator is to simulate! The developer didn't bother. This really is quite trash and does deserve the rather large number of negative reviews it has (in fact I was surprised how many people bought and played the game, the screenshots alone should be enough to deter gamers). There is, however, something very special about this game. Ludicrously, and I'm not making this up, it was made with the crapfest that is GameGuru. Yeah, you know, the drag and drop construction kit for making FPS games. Except this isn't an FPS game at all... some weird contortionism took place here to twist GameGuru into presenting a spreadsheet game. Does that mean the outcome is a good one? Of course not, here's why. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. T…

I play Steam games in alphabetical order and you can watch my review here (Game 2 of 3 featured): https://youtu.be/Ch68PXSf1Ug A stock market simulator where the chance of a stock increasing or decreasing is 50/50, meaning that there are no viable tactics, just luck. Should you decide to play this game, the best method of winning is to immediately pause the game, buy 1 stock and then wait for 10-15 minutes while the bonus system increases your stock to the maximum value. Sell, then repeat 10 times to beat the game. That said, I don't know why you would do this rather than spending your money on a game that is actually good.

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Horrendous loading times, trash, and not intriguing in the sligthest.

The worst UI game with the worst UI. I've seen Excel sheets which were prettier.