Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.
As a mid-level stockbroker at the firm FERIOS, you'll engage in a dynamic, interconnected stock market where the prices of related stocks move together based on various factors. The core gameplay revolves around making profitable trades through both long and short strategies.
For long trades, you can buy stocks at the current price and sell them later at a higher price to profit from increases. Alternatively, you can short-sell stocks by borrowing shares, selling them at the current price, and then buying them back later at a lower price to profit from decreases.
To inform your trading decisions, you have access to several information sources. Unreliable Information comes from short messages by dubious analysis groups, which you must evaluate based on factors like the number of likes they've received. Reliable Information includes Insider Tips that provide advance notice of major events, as well as News Articles indicating persistent market trends.
A key aspect of the gameplay is your ability to actively manipulate the market. You can lobby governments to help or harm certain industries, acquire majority shares in companies to directly impact their stock prices, and even destabilize foreign currencies to improve the profit margins of importing firms.
Your progress is measured by meeting daily profit targets and outperforming your coworkers. Failure to do so can result in termination. The game also presents narrative-driven challenges and consequences, such as financial investigations and public opinion backlash, that you must navigate.
After completing the main story, the Endless Mode allows you to continue playing and amassing wealth, with new goals and a separate narrative thread. This mode provides an opportunity to further explore the game's market manipulation mechanics and their far-reaching consequences.