Oligopoly

If you’ve ever stared at a Monopoly board and thought, “This needs more spreadsheets,” then Oligopoly is basically your spiritual home. Released in 1987 for DOS, it lets you slide into the well-shined loafers of a corporate titan whose idea of fun is manipulating markets until smaller competitors cry. The game isn’t flashy—no explosions, no lasers, no heroic rescues—unless you count rescuing your quarterly reports from mediocrity. Yet that’s exactly what gives it charm: its ruthless honesty. It knows you’re here to dominate, to undercut prices, and to pretend that cornering an industry is totally ethical. A gloriously nerdy exercise in capitalist mischief.