The ever-growing first-person simulation games gets a new entry in the genre with The Invisible Hand. In this new game developed by Power Struggle Games, you will be living the life of a stockbroker.
But it’s not just being a stockbroker doing menial tasks. The Invisible Hand is about you making big money. Buy stocks that going and sell before they go down. Or short the ones that are going down. That’s standard stockbroker moves.
You also get to make the big plays, as in, you can manipulate the market. Be ahead of the game and make all the money. Lobby groups that can influence the market. Send a foreign currency into freefall so companies that import products there earn more. Get inside sources of where the financial trends go before anyone else trades.
You know, the usual scummy stuff you see.
If you were enthralled by this year’s drama when the gaming community got into the GameStop stock-shorting, but only know cursory knowledge about how stocks work, The Invisible Hand gives you a look at how the system works from a satirical point of view. Power Struggle Games describe themselves as “a French game development collective cheekily intent on dismantling Capitalism from the inside, through games”. So that’s what kind of game you’re getting into.
The Invisible Hand is out now on PC (Steam) for RM30, with an early bird 20% discount until May 15. It’s also available on GOG and Humble.