![]() ![]() This is pretty much what it looks like all the time. Not a lot of different screens I can show you, actually. There are also business leaders which give each player a special ability throughout the game as well as a slew of other variants all which can be turned on or off by the game creator as they wish. All these variants mean you can play with either the generic base stock price board or the far more interesting “advanced” board in which each of the different stocks have unique tracks and increase and decrease in value at their own pace. Not only are there 3 levels of AI and a robust asynchronous multiplayer system, but the game comes bundled with all the variants of the base game as well as all the modules of the Continuing Corruption expansion all for the price of entry. First of all, every mode and variant you could hope for has been incorporated in true Digidiced style. The digital version does everything is needs to do to make Stockpile work as an app. Considering that the richest player wins this multiple-split combo is what’s sought out by every investor. If you’re lucky enough to have a stock split while you already own split stocks of that company, each one will pay you $10K in cold hard cash. ![]() After either incident, the stock price is moved to a central location on its track and the process continues. If a stock hits the rightmost space, it splits meaning that each share currently owned by a player is worth two shares. If a stock hits the leftmost position, the company goes bankrupt and all stocks of that company are worthless and must be discarded by everyone around the table. It’s the same type of auction you’ll find in games like Cyclades and Vegas Showdown.īig money comes into play when companies split their stock or go bankrupt. I hate auctions, except the kind in Stockpile. Sure, that pile of computer stocks also has a bunch of fee cards on it, but is that because someone knows they’ll go up and is trying to scare off potential bidders? Or maybe that’s what they want you to think? Vizzini would have loved this game. It becomes a game of poker, watching to see who is selling what, what stocks are visible in each of the stockpiles, who’s bidding on what pile, and who put what where. Of course, each of them have info about a different stock. Thus, you know something about one of the companies that your opponents are clueless about. Before each turn each player is dealt both a company and a card that indicates how far that stock will rise or fall at the end of the turn. Also, there’s a little insider trading going on. The current stock price for each of the six companies is tracked on the main board allowing you to see their current worth. Luckily, you’re not bidding completely blind. Thus, when all players have played their two cards, you’ll have several piles of stocks and other cards, visible and hidden, to bid on. These cards can be any of the six available company stocks or can be “take-that” style cards that force the winner of the auction to pay fees or give them the power to bump up or drive down the price of any stock of their choice. One of your cards will be placed face-up and the other face-down. Each player is dealt two cards per round and will place them into “stockpiles”, the number of which equal the number of players. ![]() To make matters more convoluted, you aren’t always even sure what you’re bidding on. You don’t actually buy stocks directly, but instead have to win them via auctions with your competitors. Released for tabletop in 2015, Stockpile is an auction game with a stock market theme. Both are fun, and while I doubt we’ll ever see an 18xx game make its way to our phones, (unless Playdek ever gets around to developing 1846 from GMT) today Stockpile makes its grand entrance on the digital stage. Stockpile falls into the unrealistic camp in which stock prices are randomly in flux. The 18xx games, for example, deal with it somewhat realistically with your stock price rising and falling based on demand and the profitability of your train company. Stock games tend to fall into two categories: those that treat stocks fairly realistically and those that don’t. If you’re not aware, stock trading is a (the?) major component of the 18xx family of board games which readers will know I’m currently in love with. Luckily, a little game called Imperial changed my mind and, while I’m terrible at stock games, I discovered that they’re fun as hell. Something in my brain convinced me that games with stocks and money were the purview of the business-inclined, which I’m definitely not. There was a time, not long ago, that I dreaded any game that included a stock market mechanism. IOS/Android (out now), PC/Mac/Linux (coming Friday) ![]()
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