Wall Street Junior

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 bein...

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.

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'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?

This game is terrible. Half the time trading doesn't work. Nothing like a loss because the trade took too long to buy.

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.

Unfinished and abandoned.

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.