But The Invisible Hand quickly evolves into an entirely different beast. The game introduces the tools of the trade at a steady pace, starting with long and short positions with a handful of stocks. But, in a matter of minutes, you’ll be raking in the big bucks like a seasoned trader. Sitting down in front of four monitors littered with numbers and graphs is overwhelming, to say the least.
Stock-illiterate players such as myself should have no problem with getting up to speed. Something tells me that I’m doing something wrong.Īs an entry-level analyst, your first few days go by without much of an issue. The numbers quickly fly up, as does the dopamine, but unbeknownst to you, it’s all downhill from here. On a recommendation, you, the Wall Street wunderkind, land a job day trading at FERIOS and quickly work your way up the ranks in a cutthroat environment. It’s hard to imagine the avid investor progressing at the game’s intended pace, and properly experiencing the twists and turns of working for FERIOS Capital, but perhaps that only adds to the humor. I had a good time on my tour of the world of Wall Street, which the game laces with a decent dose of cynicism and absurdity. The Invisible Hand is perfect for someone like me, that is, someone who knows the bare minimum. Regardless, stepping into the full-grain leather shoes of a big-time stockbroker manipulating a volatile, virtual market is just as fun as it sounds on paper. Big laughs and absurd outcomes are present in spades, even if its commentary struggles to stay afloat. In comes The Invisible Hand, a satirical take on stocks that forces players to reckon with the destruction they’ve unknowingly unleashed in their blind pursuit of the next big money-maker. Between the ever-growing obsessions with entrepreneurship, a pandemic cleaving away at employment numbers, and the unavoidable buzz surrounding meme stocks, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, plus whatever other “golden geese” are hiding around the corner, there are more eyes on investing than there’s probably ever been. As hard as you may try to keep the stock market on the periphery of your life, modern-day capitalist society will thwart your futile attempts at every turn.
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