The Stonks Market
Vagabond Dog · 2021 · Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Simulation, Funny, Capitalism
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About The Stonks Market
Become the Ultimate Daytrader
BUY, SELL, or HODL your stonks of choice as you navigate a real-time trading interface to capitalize on your limited funds, and convert them into a luxurious bounty of profits.
YOLO Your Life Savings
Leverage everything you own, refinance your home, and put your entire net worth at risk with trades that have the potential to destroy your life and leave you in complete financial ruin.
Return to Monke
Have a religious experience involving an ape that will give you strength to fight the FUD and set you on a course that will ultimately lead you to infinite riches or absolute peril.
Collapse the Economy
Take down hedge funds, market makers, and the entire capitalist system as you bring about the destruction of modern civilization in your daring pursuit of short-term gains.
Fast Funny
Expect a couple of quick laughs, replay opportunities, and some simple fun as you unlock its 13 achievements over around 45 mins of story and about 60 mins of trading action.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
The Stonks Market is a short, satirical narrative experience that divides players on its execution and scope. Supporters praise its humor, multiple endings, and moments of clever satire, while critics find the gameplay too minimal—essentially just dialogue choices and basic stock trading mechanics—making it feel more like an interactive skit than a complete game. Many players struggle with the game's overall message and feel the stock market premise doesn't effectively serve the satire it's attempting.
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Felt like a wasted hour, I don't really get the game wants to be, but it has very little to do with stonks and this isn't how stonks generally work for them to be used as a medium for a message I don't really get. A letdown, in the end.
[b]The Stonks Market[/b] is a short narrative-driven experience built around satire and light decision-making. While the branching paths provide some incentive to replay, the overall experience remains quite limited in scope. There are very few actual gameplay systems beyond selecting a couple of dialogue options or buying and selling stocks, making it feel closer to an interactive skit than a fully developed game. Overall, The Stonks Market is a harmless, short-lived experience. It offers a couple of amusing moments and multiple endings, but the limited gameplay prevents it from being something I would actively recommend. [h1]The Good[/h1] + Three different endings + Short narrative experience with a few funny moments [h1]The Neutral[/h1] * Not good enough to recommend, not bad enough to discourage buying [h1]The Bad[/h1] - Very limited gameplay elements - Couldn't figure out how to unlock two of the achievements [i]My wife's boyfriend won[/i] [h2]5 / 10 - IGN[/h2]
Masterpiece. The story is quite good.
While the game is, for the most part, hyper realistic, I found the possibility of actually making money in the stock market to be jarring. In addition, I was disappointed that my wife's boyfriend did not invite me to his ranch. Still, I appreciated the advice given to me by Harambe, and intend to to take a out a loan on my house this coming Monday and go balls deep in $POOP.
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