The Invisible Hand
Power Struggle Games · 2021 · Capitalism, Trading, Economy, Strategy, Dark Comedy
PC
Very Positive82% · 50169Metacritic
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About The Invisible Hand
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Navigate stock markets and corporate manipulation as a cutthroat trader at FERIOS, buying, shorting, and scheming your way to maximum profits by any means necessary. This dark satire explores the moral bankruptcy of high finance through a first-person experience that rewards ruthlessness while questioning the cost of unchecked ambition.
Congrats on your new job! Welcome to the first-person world of a mid-level stockbroker, as you begin your very first day at the trading firm FERIOS. You’ve probably wanted this job since you were six, right? Well, so have a lot of people… so you'll have to fight for it and prove that you're the top dog for the job!
Just remember: profit is all that matters, the rules don’t apply if you’re a winner, and only losers feel guilty for the pain, loss and poverty that are the unfortunate but unavoidable by-product of the critical and important work we do here.
It’s simple: your job is to make money for FERIOS. Buy the stocks going up, sell before they go down. Short the ones that are going to fall (or the ones you’re going to make fall). The more money you make, the bigger your commission. And you want that commission, don't you? Well don’t worry, the rewards are limitless, if you’re hungry enough.
If you’re really smart, you’ll find ways to influence the market to your advantage. Think you can lobby an influential group to affect the market? Do it. Get an opportunity to acquire majority shares to move the needle? Take it. Drive down the currency of a foreign country to improve the margins of the companies that import their products? Why not? The only consequences that matter are the ones that impact our bottom line.
Every Joe Schmo has access to the regular news. If you want to get ahead of the spikes and crashes you’ll need to find the inside line from more, shall we say, “exclusive” sources. And definitely don’t let those rumors of a financial investigation get you down. No one employed by FERIOS has ever been found guilty!
We’re one big happy team here at Ferios and nothing brings the team together like competition. So in the spirit of togetherness you better meet your daily profit targets and beat your coworkers’ results if you want to keep your job. We won’t hesitate to fire anyone who can’t or won’t do what it takes to succeed...
The fruits of success are yours for the taking. Fast cars, lavish parties, fancy apartments filled with beautiful furniture and artworks. Of course, for any truly successful trader, work is its own reward and their true home is the office so it’s a good thing you can decorate your desk with photos of all your wonderful things to remind you they exist.
Just remember: profit is all that matters, the rules don’t apply if you’re a winner, and only losers feel guilty for the pain, loss and poverty that are the unfortunate but unavoidable by-product of the critical and important work we do here.
It’s simple: your job is to make money for FERIOS. Buy the stocks going up, sell before they go down. Short the ones that are going to fall (or the ones you’re going to make fall). The more money you make, the bigger your commission. And you want that commission, don't you? Well don’t worry, the rewards are limitless, if you’re hungry enough.
If you’re really smart, you’ll find ways to influence the market to your advantage. Think you can lobby an influential group to affect the market? Do it. Get an opportunity to acquire majority shares to move the needle? Take it. Drive down the currency of a foreign country to improve the margins of the companies that import their products? Why not? The only consequences that matter are the ones that impact our bottom line.
Every Joe Schmo has access to the regular news. If you want to get ahead of the spikes and crashes you’ll need to find the inside line from more, shall we say, “exclusive” sources. And definitely don’t let those rumors of a financial investigation get you down. No one employed by FERIOS has ever been found guilty!
We’re one big happy team here at Ferios and nothing brings the team together like competition. So in the spirit of togetherness you better meet your daily profit targets and beat your coworkers’ results if you want to keep your job. We won’t hesitate to fire anyone who can’t or won’t do what it takes to succeed...
The fruits of success are yours for the taking. Fast cars, lavish parties, fancy apartments filled with beautiful furniture and artworks. Of course, for any truly successful trader, work is its own reward and their true home is the office so it’s a good thing you can decorate your desk with photos of all your wonderful things to remind you they exist.
What Steam players say
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The Invisible Hand, developed and published by Power Struggle Games, is a first-person trading simulator that turns the abstract world of finance into something immediate, interactive, and surprisingly intense. Rather than presenting the stock market as a distant system of charts and numbers, it places players directly at a trading desk, where every decision—buying, selling, or manipulating—happens in real time under pressure. At the same time, it frames this experience through a lens of satire, using its mechanics to explore and critique the incentives that drive profit-focused environments. The gameplay is structured around a series of workdays at a corporate trading firm, where success is measured entirely by how much money you can generate. Each session involves monitoring stock movements, identifying opportunities, and executing trades quickly enough to stay ahead of market fluctuations. The mechanics are intentionally simplified, making it easy to understand the fundamentals even for players with no background in finance. However, beneath this accessibility lies a steady sense of tension, as the fast pace forces players to make decisions with limited time and incomplete info…4 found this helpful
this game is comie propagana trust1 found this helpful
Game sadly lies, the intro made it seem like I'd get overwhelmed by stats and events distracting me and flipping the narrative, but no, nothing happens except your co-workers get fired due to you making arbitrary and frankly small gains. Chill stock trading game, that's just too simple to not get boring quick.
The game mechanics are broken. You easily make more money not trading than with trading. Buy the company with the highest dividends. In my case, 40%. Then, short a company with low dividends and high trading volume. Buy more of the dividends company, short more of the other company, until your credit is maxed out. You will never pay back your debt anyway, except if you aim for completion later. Now, on the next day, you get easily 40% of your total investment back. Usually more, because by gobbling up that company with the dividends, the dividends increase. In my first run, I had like 55% dividends before the game reset, because I owned 5% of the market. So now comes the insane part. After a reset, you can choose 25% dividends increase as your perk. And somehow the game recalculates dividends based on your past run, so in my next run, the best paying company had 200% dividends already. At day one, I could buy 2 million worth of that company. Giving me more than 5 million in dividends. My second playthrough, until the game reset, lasted 5 ingame days. Giving me a fresh start with a company now paying 400% in dividends. No playthrough lasted more than three days from that point on…
I'm not sure how accurate this simulation is but it was fun to play. All the money I lost and made over the course of a day, quite tempting.
Im sorry but this game is ultimately not for me. i dont wanna sit down and stare at numbers for multiple ingame days. i find this game quite boring.
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