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Bear Raid

Game ID: GID0041668
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Description

In Bear Raid you’ll put on your power suit, pajamas, or prison jumper, and start buying, selling, and shorting stocks. Like every successful trader, your goal is to try and make the most money you can.

Players will buy, sell, and short stocks in the stock market during the action phase of the game. Forecast cards with clever news headlines will be used to determine how each stock is affected.

Through the use of dice that you can manipulate and clever play, you'll influence the market, hopefully bending the stock prices to your advantage.

The winner is the one who's made the most money!

-description from publisher

Year Published
2022
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
  • strong thematic connection to finance
  • transparent, highly information-driven play
Cons
  • perceived harshness and meanness of play
  • hard to manage board states; lengthy playtime
  • may not connect with casual players
Thematic elements
  • economic trading and market manipulation
  • stock market economy
  • dry, relentlessly economic and a touch ruthless
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • buy low, sell high — price movements drive profitability and risk
  • economic engine — players invest and flip stocks for profit across a simulated market
  • hidden state/board awareness — board states shift in ways that affect pricing and strategy
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  • this is very much a back and forth take that style of game as you are infecting each other with these different viruses and diseases
  • it's a random take that fest
  • this game goes on way longer than the box says
  • this is quite a cool quirky little game at least in terms of the visual appeal
  • the economic part of this game is very tight
  • it's really solid and a lot of fun
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