Разработчик: WSJ Team
Описание
Wall Street Junior is a simulation game based on an equilibrium-targeted, event-driven model of economy and financial markets. The simulation evaluates the performance of economy's components and predicts the state of markets accordingly. Players have the option of interacting with the markets and trying out different investment strategies, yet to be successful in such one has to be aware of the current situation on the exchange floors and constantly keep up with the news not to miss anything that might render his investment invaluable.
The Freedom of Simulation
Your behavior on the market, as of a player, is entirely up to you; one may choose to buy a bunch of stocks today and sell them tomorrow with a profit, go for bonds while speeding up the simulation a little to receive the coupon payments claiming profit on the long run, or don't bother with the instrument trading at all and place their bets in the form of options that will expire one day with a (hopefully significant) premium. Some investments may, however, bear some risk, and it is then reasonable to hedge against inconvenient market moves in order to lessen the possible negative outcomes.Extensions to the Original Model
Apart from the vanilla trading of instruments, currencies and derivatives, your company is fully capable trading on margin, offering loans to ordinary customers and issuing fixed-income securities on its own. These ways of raising capital give you the ability to operate with creditors money, thus maximizing the profits, but everything comes at a price and the interest responsibilities might one day present a significant burden, if not issued with care.The game features a set of tutorials, campaign scenarios and a sandbox mode. The tutorials are written in an easy-going fashion, not going into much detail but covering all necessary topics and providing references to external resources discussing those of lesser importance. Campaign scenarios are merely a guided set-up with limitations regarding the options you have. The sandbox mode is stripped of all limitations and allows you to experiment on the simulation, with no exception of bringing companies on the brink of bankruptcy.
Development Decisions
Wall Street Junior was developed with the specific intentions of making a realistic simulation. These intentions had the positive effect of the game becoming (at times literally hand-) editable and easy to be modded, with the rather negative side effect of the user interface becoming complicated at the first sight. The game is in the Alpha stage and we actively encourage all player feedback to help us correct undesired behavior of the simulation and improve all the parts that might require further clarification.Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 or equivalent
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4200
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Display Resultion: HD Ready
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3-3210 or equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 510
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Display Resolution: FullHD; Relies primarily on CPU power, stronger recommended
Отзывы пользователей
This is a terrible game, bad interface and multiple errors
This game is one of the most advanced and well made trading games. You can invest in companies, currencies etc! If you like trading and economy you have to try this game!!
A bit complex and hard to understand at first but after some time you will get the hang of it.
I wish the main menu was a bit more intiutive tho, you can get lost easely and i cant figuere out how to load a save game.
9/10 one of the best if not the best trading games i have ever played
Bad
Why:
1) can sell stuff without owning it
2) can buy stuff without any money
3) offer bond at 0% interest at a rating of DDD(really bad) and it gets completely bought
4) offer company at stock market and literally have 5x of your starting net worth without providing any reason why you should be valued that high
5) frequent crashes
so basically, the game is unplayable and completely broken
oh and i also got all but one achievement for basically doing nothing
Very buggy and not suitable for release. This is so bad I'd struggle to class this a a finished product or even a game at all. Some scenarios don't loan and one even had an error message about being ready late 2018??? The current date is May 13th, 2020!
The tickers don't work well and there is almost no data within the game.
The main menu just says it all really!
Isn't worth the £2.89 I paid for it. I wouldn't play this game if the developer paid me!!!!
It's just not a good game nor simulation.
It's not enjoyable as a game and not realistic enough to be called a simulator. It's very easy to become a millionair in this game because there is no proper option pricing among other things.
If you want to learn about how to buy/sell stocks, there are plenty of online 'simulators' which let you buy and sell in a 'simulation' of the real market.
Like this one:
https://www.rtlzbeursspel.nl/
Should not be out of Early Access.
It's unfortunate, because I REALLY want a good trading game on Steam, this has the gameplay I want.
But it is NOT done. It has a Foreword about the Scenario not working. For a game that wants to familiarize people with trading and make it less intimidating, it fails. I got 17 of 18 achievements for doing nothing.
It just isn't done, it immediately put me off. It should be Early Access.
My eyes HURT with that small font on a 4K display. Whole game takes some time for understanding even if you're dealing with assets in a real life already. I can't recommend the game in its current condition.
So,... I bought this game... All I see is a white text. I clicked "Initialize Simulaiton" Nothing happens. I will give it one more day then I am gonna return this cause I can't even access it.
I wouldn't say 100% accurate or authentic but it is quite fun if you are into this sorta thing. As far as options go there aren't many. Definately not the best at all but for 9 USD on steam it is a neat time killer.
The developer seems to have abandoned this game - no updates or news since February. The game is a decent idea but the execution is woeful. You'd be much better off signing up for a practice account with your local bank and playing with real sotck trading. This game/sim seems to just randomly increase a stock price over time - there is none of the feeling of risk/reward of playing with real stocks or derivatives. If you don't want to try a practice account, just open up Excel and type in =(RAND()*3)*23.89 and keep running that formula for an hour. It's about as exciting.
I like this game in that it offers good opportunities for gaining a better understanding with regards to the basics of trading related practices. In addition I'd like to respond to the most popular review in saying that Preferred Stock can be viewed as a form of fixed income security.
I really like the game because of its depth and complete simulation it brings thinking and a lot of reflection on it.
BUT it can be sometimes confusing its a shame that the devs don't make a real scenario into it
In conclusion, I love it but please make a complete user manual to understand the game and how it works keep on the great work!
i need help, theres just a white screen and text, about bugs and simulation, ive selected bits and its still not working. its very uncklear. i can not log onto the game
This game is terrible. Half the time trading doesn't work. Nothing like a loss because the trade took too long to buy.
Pros: Best wallstreet/stock market game (or only one) outside of GTA. From the words of the developers "- Wall Street Junior will introduce you to the world of financial markets." And I have to say I think they've done that. I still don't understand stocks exactly, at least only a custom GUI (that keeps crashing 'I debugged') that comes from who knows where, nothing is cited about financial software backgrounds or anything - just saying. But they have shown me it's more complex than I first imagined, and that might have saved me some money. REAL MONEY, because I'm almost 40 and I like a nice slow game that has the potential to help me earn REAL MONEY. So all that being said it was a great deal at $7.60 I'm confident they will at least fix the crashing bug if not improve on this a great deal. I was just saying I wished for something like this the other day too and here it is in all it's glory!
Cons: It's crashing before the end of the first year/two turnovers in. I tried debugging it myself, it pointed to GUI errors.
Last ditch cash grab, or brand new release bugs? only time will tell, I won't be regretting this either way at such a low price.
not a good game or simulator. Great idea without proper planning. you can actually get better simulator for free. Bad developer with player interaction for improving the game too.
I'll give this a "cautious-recommend" noting that the UI is quite clunky and difficult to use at present. Still, with so few Stock Market games available, one must applaud the effort to create one here.
All things considered, I think the level of complexity is a little bit too high, and I would urge the designer to simplify things just a bit or else find that most people will be scared away. I am an economist by education and have more than 20 years experience in trading stocks and derivatives and even I found this "wall of data" approach a bit overwhelming.
Still, this is in early enough development at the time of writing that I think there would still be time to make this something special.
Refunded after about an hour of lackluster gameplay. The user interface, while "flashy", is filled with microprint and the game lacks so much to even justify it being in Alpha. Not to mention the numerous failed deliveries on release dates. All thsi compounded with the fact that the Dev himself seems to be completely out of sync with concerned customers, either going AWOL the night of the 4th attempt at release, or by being unpleasant and accusing concerned customers of starting "flamewars", instead of just addressing their ACTUAL concerns or listening to their advice.
Realistically, I would normally give a game like this a second chance in a few months, but this developer does not deserve it for the way he treated "fans" leading up to and upon release. Truthfully, a 1.5/10 game.
EDIT REVIEW: The developer initially removed both of the forum links mentioned below. Then he brought back the 1st link but he deleted various posts in it. So for now both links are practically useless for the purposes of this review. Fortunately, enough people already read them before the dev intervened and you can judge from their comments in this review. Note that I own 65 games and this is the 1st time I felt the need to write a review.
Do not buy this game unless you are prepared to get mocked and/or trolled by the developer when you point out to him flaws of the game that take away from what supposed to be a simulation. As an example of what I am talking about you can see the discussion in these 2 threads that I started.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/715520/discussions/0/1692662484245101573/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/715520/discussions/2/1692662484248204550/
If you are fine with being treated like this then you could consider buying it.
At this point this is far from being a simulation of the financial world and in no way does it serve as an introduction to finance per its own intended purpose, as you cannot possibly learn when not even the terminology is right. Αs an example, preferred stocks in this game are referred to (in the tutorial) as Fixed Income Securities. This has to be a joke as no stock on the planet provides FIXED income. Another example is that cash in the game is called capital. This is a layman term and ought to be absent from a game that likes to be called a Financial SIMULATOR that aims to teach newbs.
There's no depth as far as company information is concerned which is rather shallow; there's no balance sheet, cash flow report, income statement etc. Even basic metrics such as EPS or P/E ratio are absent which is ridiculous for a stock market game. Then again, companies don't even seem to pay dividends.
It's almost like a game meant for a day or swing trading experience where stuff like fundamentals do not matter and thus left out, yet that would require implementation of technical analysis stuff and some patterns perhaps. All of this is of course absent as well.
In short, do not expect anything close to Wall Street Raider. The only aspect where this game is better is the graphical presentation but that's it.
I won't comment on mechanics as this is early access.
The developer does not seem to have any practical knowledge of finance nor does he seem to have looked for advice from someone that does. With that said he does not seem willing to learn from the input of players who do have real experience neither.
All in all, the title seems promising IF and only IF the feedback from the community is utilized, since the developer lacks the knowledge and is behaving arrogantly on top of it.
EDIT: Dev below implies that he deleted the thread because I personally posted offensive content.
The truth is that I did not, and for that reason I contacted the support forums. The mod there, who probably has the ability to see the thread, notes that someone else trolled the dev and the thread was removed. See for yourself
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1693788384136608709/
I'm really looking forward to see this game developing. Since many ppl are afraid of trading, especially in Germany, I hope this game could give them insights and take their fear about stock exchange away.
Btw. do you need any German translator for the game?
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | WSJ Team |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 26.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 33% положительных (33) |