Games with a simulated stock exchange sorted by release date
Stock exchange is not the most stimulating theme for a video game. Apparently, a few developers in the 80s and the 90s thought differently. These games include a stock exchange theme to various degrees: some are entirely based on it, others are loosely based on it.
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Black Friday
DOS1983
Black Friday (1983) isn’t about shopping mayhem—though you might wish it were after trying to figure out what’s going on. This early DOS title is part stock market simulator, part existential crisis. You play as a trader trying to make a fortune before the market crashes and takes your soul with it. There’s no real action, u...
Wall Street Raider
DOS1986
Black Monday
DOS1987 Starsoft Development
Black Monday (1987) combines economic panic with the thrill of—wait for it—spreadsheet navigation. It's like Wolf of Wall Street without the fun, drugs, or DiCaprio. You’re managing a business during a financial collapse, and everything is falling apart faster than your patience. Charts, graphs, bad decisions—it’s all ...
Inside Trader
DOS1987 Cosmi Corporation
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall Street
DOS1988protected SoftServ
Acquire
DOS1989 IBM
Acquire (1989, DOS) brings boardroom drama to your DOS screen, turning you into a hotel tycoon in a game where the real enemy is... math. It's a faithful adaptation of the classic board game, complete with mergers, hostile takeovers, and the slow crushing realization that your cousin bought all the good stocks before you. There’s no real anim...
Inve$t
DOS1990 Starbyte Software
Railroad Tycoon
DOSMac OS1990freeware MicroProse Software
Rags to Riches
DOS1993 Interplay Productions
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
DOS1993 MicroProse Software
Ocean Trader
DOS1995 Software 2000
Capitalism Plus
DOSWindows XP/98/951997protected Enlight Software
Railroad Tycoon 2
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1998 Pop Software
Railroad Tycoon 2 is an abandoned train simulation game designed by Phil Steinmeyer, developed by Pop Software and released by Gathering of Developers for Windows, Linux and Mac in 1998. As the title suggests, Railroad Tycoon 2 is the sequel of the acclaimed train management simulation Railroad Tycoon designed by Sid Meier in 1990.
Capitalism 2
Windows XP/98/95Mac OS2001protected Ensemble Studios
Capitalism 2 is simulation game designed by Trevor Chan, developed by Ensemble Studios and released by UBI Soft in 2001 for Windows and Macintosh. Capitalism 2 is the quintessential capitalistic simulation and involves stock exchange, business management, marketing, etc.
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