A stock market simulator with real prices and imaginary money, which is very much the correct order to learn that in.
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Investopedia Simulator sits in Tycoon Sims under Play, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as brainy and useful.
Management games about money — lemonade stands scaled up to the point of moral compromise. Every one of them is about the same lesson.
Buy aircraft, plot routes and slowly discover that fuel price is the only variable that ever really mattered.
A famously unforgiving airline simulation that keeps running in real time whether or not you are logged in to watch.
Run a coffee stand for fourteen days, adjusting recipe and price daily, and learn more about margins than from any lecture.
The two-person studio behind the entire Papa's restaurant series, with the back catalogue and the odd non-cooking game too.
A text-based village of kittens that grows into a civilisation over weeks, with a spreadsheet's soul and startling depth.
The 1979 economics lesson still intact — buy lemons, read the forecast, set a price, discover the weather has opinions.
Virtual trading contests running on live market data, playable against colleagues without anybody risking actual money.
Run a country by answering one absurd policy dilemma a day, then watch your statistics drift somewhere you did not intend.