To make matters more convoluted, you aren’t always even sure what you’re bidding on. You don’t actually buy stocks directly, but instead have to win them via auctions with your competitors. Released for tabletop in 2015, Stockpile is an auction game with a stock market theme. Both are fun, and while I doubt we’ll ever see an 18xx game make its way to our phones, (unless Playdek ever gets around to developing 1846 from GMT) today Stockpile makes its grand entrance on the digital stage. Stockpile falls into the unrealistic camp in which stock prices are randomly in flux. The 18xx games, for example, deal with it somewhat realistically with your stock price rising and falling based on demand and the profitability of your train company. Stock games tend to fall into two categories: those that treat stocks fairly realistically and those that don’t. If you’re not aware, stock trading is a (the?) major component of the 18xx family of board games which readers will know I’m currently in love with. Luckily, a little game called Imperial changed my mind and, while I’m terrible at stock games, I discovered that they’re fun as hell. Something in my brain convinced me that games with stocks and money were the purview of the business-inclined, which I’m definitely not. There was a time, not long ago, that I dreaded any game that included a stock market mechanism. IOS/Android (out now), PC/Mac/Linux (coming Friday)
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