STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
BANGER · Strategy · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 13.8h
- Value
- $0.72/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 4-compliant onboard graphics, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.69. That was August 2025. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 33 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Car Manufacture ($19.99, scores 11) and SAELIG ($14.99, scores 48) both come in lower.
$12.22 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $9.99.
This site sampled 441 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 284 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
59% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
46 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 06:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Honestly I have always dreamed of playing a game exactly like this, navigate the ins and outs of a volatile stock market, balance all aspects of life and relationships, grow my business and assets, and spend all my money like they don't exist. Love the art style this game has taken. Totally understandable some of the kinks and bugs this game has. I think this game has immense potential; imo it will win the TGA when...
Awesome game! I thought it'd just be crunching numbers and playing with business, but its like 10 different games in one. Stock trading is solid and actually fun - looking at charts, gauging sentiments and making moves based on data you get. Then there's building friendships/relationships that actually impact other gameplay - start a company and hire people you've gotten close to at the bar, as an example. There's...
>be broke 20 something year old trying to get into stocks in japan >cant seem to make a profit >get depressed and go to the bar to relax a little >meet beautiful woman >end up becoming friends >shes a board member at a very profitable company >months later she randomly proposes that I marry her daughter >surewhynot.xml >somehow end up with 300 million yen because of the marriage >maybethisisntsobadafterall.exe Fast...
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Cite this score
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1539140/stonks-9800-stock-market-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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