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Racanofeller [The site is in Spanish .. coming in English]
http://www.racanofeller.com/
Racanofeller is an online multiplayer game that simulates the departments of a company.
The main objective is to produce and sell them to other players and consumers virtual gaming.
The global gaming economy is managed by the users themselves through the government. The game is in Spanish, soon also in English.

Miniconomy
https://www.miniconomy.com/
In the free-to-play browser-based game Miniconomy you can trade with thousands of other players.
Apart from trading, you can also make a career by being a police officer (), mayor of one of the many cities (), real estate agent (), bank manager () or even president (). Miniconomy has a great community with active and friendly players.

Teaching Tools: The Stock Market Game
https://valuestockguide.com/guide/how-to-invest-in-stocks/
Lessons and teaching resources on how the stock market game works.
Also a great section of student resources on banking, investments and financial fundamentals.

Ars Regendi
https://www.ars-regendi.com/
Political online game and economic simulation.
Play for free in your browser with thousands of other regents!

Stock Market Game
https://www.stockmarketgame.org/
The SIFMA Foundations's Stock Market Game (SMG) gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in an on-line portfolio. They think they're playing a game. You know they're learning economic and financial concepts they'll use for the rest of their lives.

JA Titan ... multimedia business simulation
http://titan.ja.org/
JA Titan ... multimedia business simulation
Test your skills running a business in this ultimate business simulation! As CEO, you will match wits in the competitive, technologically advanced industry of the Holo-Generator
Set in the year 2035, JA Titan creates a world in which players are CEOs of their own companies. Originally conceived in the 1980s as the Management and Economic Simulation Exercise, or MESE, JA Titan is a widely recognized business simulation for high school students. During game play, students must run a manufacturing company and master six key business decisions: price of product, production levels, marketing expenses, research and development costs, capital investment level, and charitable giving. Various corporate assistants “help” the player through each phase, or “quarter,” of game play.

Virtual Stock Exchange
https://www.marketwatch.com/game
Welcome to Virtual Stock Exchange, a free online trading game from MarketWatch.
# Create public or private games with a cash balance you set
# Choose from thousands of available games
# Test your strategy with a personal portfolio
# Leverage powerful news and research resources from MarketWatch class

Investopedia
https://www.investopedia.com/simulator/
Investopedia
Our stock market game is like a fantasy sports pool for investing - it simulates the experience of trading in the stock market.
.. join over 350,000 investors – get your $100,000 in virtual cash here and start trading stocks in minutes.

Simulations from Persuasive Games
http://persuasivegames.com/games/
Simulations at Persuasive Games
This company produces several simulations that would be useful in a number of different curriculum areas
Disaffected! - a videogame parody of the Kinko’s copy store, a source of frustration from its patrons. Disaffected! puts the player in the role of employees forced to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinko’s store.
Airport Insecurity - a game about inconvenience and the tradeoffs between security and rights in American airports.
Stone City – Cold Stone Creamery, Inc. - Cold Stone commissioned an employee training game to focus on the issue portion sizes and their relationship to profitability.

Take a Risk on Investor Island (Part I)
https://www.econedlink.org/resources/?resources%2F&type%5B%5D=11
Take a Risk on Investor Island (Part I)
Students take a trip to Investor Island on the imaginary Planet Orange where they are introduced to the concepts of investment, risk, and return. With residents of the islands, they explore stocks and bonds as investment options. In learning about these two investment options, they discover there is a trade-off between risk and return.

Perfect Competition
https://www.perfectcompetition.net/
Perfect Competition
An online, ongoing, multiplayer, business game and simulator for aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs, executives, MBA's, economists, accountants, bankers and the business-savvy
The game is played online via a standard web browser. There is nothing to download or install. It is the first business simulation designed to be ongoing, akin to the real economy -- anyone can join in and leave at any time. It is also the first to be based on realistic business practices and economics. Business information that is commercial in confidence in the real world is not generally available in the game, so companies operate and compete realistically.

The Stock Market Game
https://www.stockmarketgame.org/
The Stock Market Game gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in a real-time portfolio. They think they're playing a game. You know they're learning economic and financial concepts they'll use for the rest of their lives.
The SMG Program is a non-profit program, supported by national and local sponsors, so your school gets excellent educational value for its dollar, without exposing children to the corporate advertising that can compromise other programs.