Wall Street Junior Reviews

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.

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.

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

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

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!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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/