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MarginCall is a single player economy management game with a economy theme. It was developed by Functionally Human and was released on August 19, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

Every price is discovered, not scripted.Most trading games decide what a stock is "worth," nudge the price toward it, and paint a chart on top. It looks like a market. It isn't one. You're watching a slideshow with a buy button. MarginCall fakes nothing. Every tick is a real trade, matched on a real order book between buyers and sellers who each decided, on their own, what a company is …

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Reviews

81%Audience ScoreBased on 59 reviews
gameplay2 positive mentions
stability2 negative mentions

  • Very deep and complex economic and market simulator with extensive gameplay depth and mechanics, including stocks, options, futures, hostile takeovers, and macroeconomic factors.
  • Highly educational and immersive for players interested in finance, offering a robust learning experience about trading, risk management, and market dynamics.
  • Active and responsive developers providing frequent updates, bug fixes, and community engagement, showing strong ongoing support and potential for future improvements.
  • The user interface is often described as overwhelming, buggy, and unintuitive, with issues like overlapping text, broken or duplicated buttons, and poor navigation hindering gameplay.
  • The game currently suffers from stability issues including crashes, corrupted saves, and long-term save file problems which affect progress and overall playability.
  • Still feels like early access with missing features, incomplete polish, and gameplay mechanics that are either broken or unrealistic, such as issues with order functions, unrealistic market simulations, and lack of advanced portfolio tools.
  • gameplay

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a deep and engaging market simulation with impressive mechanics, though it appears to have had limited testing outside the development environment before release. Overall, players find it enjoyable despite some early issues.

    • “If you are looking for a market simulator with deep gameplay, this is your game.”
    • “A really great game with amazing mechanics, I love it.”
    • “After 11 hours of gameplay over the patches/hotfixes, it's abundantly clear to me this was not properly tested outside of a dev environment prior to release.”
  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game lacks clear features for tracking historical performance and optimization metrics, such as best trades and returns. Users suggest adding detailed performance summaries and wealth statements to improve this aspect.

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game exhibits significant stability issues, with a buggy user interface and frequent problems especially during on-chart execution in futures compared to stocks.

    • “UI is very buggy.”
    • “Many features seem more buggy for on-chart execution compared to stocks.”
  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is viewed as tedious and time-consuming, especially when amassing funds through trading, only to find company takeovers are made overly easy by simple cash offers and repetitive waiting periods.

    • “Too easy to take over a company - spend so much time grinding trading only to gather money, only for it to be as simple as issuing a cash offer, waiting 10 days, repeating (because of poisoned pill), then buying out full control.”
  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music effectively captures an 80's aesthetic, creating a vibe reminiscent of the Gordon Gekko era, which enhances the overall atmosphere.

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Play Times

9h Median play time
6h Average play time
1-11h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs
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MarginCall is a economy management game with economy theme. Common tags for MarginCall include indie, trading, pixel graphics, retro, time management and others.

MarginCall is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 6 hours playing MarginCall.

MarginCall was released on August 19, 2026.

MarginCall was developed by Functionally Human.

MarginCall has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked MarginCall for its gameplay but disliked it for its stability.

MarginCall is a single player game.

Similar games include STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator, Wall Street Raider, GearCity, Plutocracy, Sim Companies and others.