, Stonks is a stock-trading sim that tasks you with building up a portfolio of shares to catapult you from your dingy 1-bed flat to a gleaming Daikanyama tower block. By carefully studying prevailing market conditions, interrogating the long-term business strategies of prospective investees, and adhering to a set of rigid ethical standards, you can carve out a fortune to support yourself and your family for generations.
Much like real-life stock trading, Stonks is to some extent a kind of idle game. You pick a share—ideally because you've gotten some kind of tip-off that it's about to take off—buy up a glut of stock, and wait. In an ideal world, those companies light up the charts like a skyrocket, bring you fame and fortune, a new car and a sparkling reputation. In a less than ideal world? Destitution, ignominy, the censure of your peers and the delight of your enemies. Possibly jail time.