Free · No ads · No microtransactions · Play money
Journey Shares is a free educational game that teaches how money works by letting you use it: invest play money, save at a bank that can fail, pay taxes, borrow on margin and watch inflation eat idle cash. A free Wiki explains every idea in plain English, with its history and how it works in the game.
🎮 PLAY NOWFees, taxes, inflation, deposit insurance and margin calls work the way they do in the US, scaled to a weekly season. Mistakes cost play money, not savings.
Short lessons pop up after your first trades, and features like the bank, taxes and options link to Wiki entries on the real rules behind them.
A timeline explains how each idea came about, from merchants buying shares in trading voyages in the 1100s to zero-commission apps today.
The game is for players aged 18 and over. The Wiki is free for anyone to read.
How prices are set, saving and compound interest, borrowing and leverage, short selling, options, ETFs and diversification, capital gains tax and the wash sale rule, inflation, and how banks can fail.
Yes. It runs many Econ 101 and finance ideas live, and the Wiki covers over 120 terms with formulas and worked examples.
No. There's no real money in or out, and nothing in the game can be bought or cashed out.
Start with $10,000 in play money
Free · No ads · No microtransactions · Play money. For players 18 and over.
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