Understanding "Stock Holding" in Board Games
"Stock Holding" is a mechanic where players purchase, trade, and manage shares of various in-game entities. The goal is often to exert control, influence outcomes, and generate income.
Key Concepts
- Shares: Portions of entities players can buy or sell.
- Market: The in-game economy affecting share value.
- Dividends: Profits paid to shareholders.
- Control: Owning a significant share may grant special abilities or decision-making power.
How It Works
Players strategically buy shares to invest in company growth or earn dividends, affecting both the company's performance and the player's wealth within the game.
Examples
Acquire: Players merge companies and acquire stock to become the wealthiest shareholder.
Power Grid: While not a pure stock holding game, it involves economic strategy akin to managing company assets.
1830: Railways & Robber Barons: A heavy economic and stock manipulation game where players buy, sell, and manipulate railroad stocks.
Impact on Gameplay
Stock holding mechanics can:
- Introduce depth and realism
- Encourage strategic planning and foresight
- Mimic real-world economic principles
Stock holding in board games offers a rich, strategic experience, engaging players in the intricacies of economic influence and investment.
Strategy Game with Stock Holding
Stock Holding and Market games
Stock Holding games published by Lonny Games
Stock Holding and Hand Management games
Stock Holding and Victory Points as a Resource games
Stock Holding and Commodity Speculation games
Iberian Rails is a share-holding train game in which players employ services of characters, some more reputable than others.Each round, the players select their characters using an original character-row mechanism, then the railway companies take their...
Iberian Rails
$59.95
$40.00
Steam Barons is the first release using the real Steam brand trade mark and expands Steam trade mark in many ways. Most importantly there is a whole new way to play Steam, instead of players only running a single company they now compete for ownership...
Steam - Rails to Riches: Steam Barons Expansion
$40.00
Stock Holding games published by Lookout Games
1844/1854 traces the development of railways in two countries. They are based on 1829 by Francis Tresham.In the game, players are stockholders of different train companies and use both the stock market and an efficient railway to win the game. They ...
1844/1854
$55.00
n 1880 China, players become railway magnates in faraway Asia. Based on 1829 by Francis Tresham, they experience China's railway history in a game that was designed to represent related historical events as correct as possible within its own game mechanics...
1880 - China
$60.95
Stock Holding games illustrated by Ian O'Toole
Stock Holding and Simulation games
Stock Holding and Hexagon Grid games
Stock Holding games illustrated by Harald Lieske
It’s the 19th century. Railroads are expanding into the new world. Invest wisely in the numerous upstart companies in order to become the wealthiest Rail Baron and take control of the North American Railways.
North American Railways
$17.00
What if there were parallel Earths, where each Earth is different, and on each unique Earth, the priorities on Earth are unique from one another?In a distant future, scientists are able to build small alternate Earths. Exactly 504 such Earths have thus...
Great Designers Series, The: 504
$79.95
$45.00
Food, Drink & Cooking themed games with Stock Holding
Veggie Garden
$8.00
Veggie Garden is a fun and fast-paced game for 2-4 players, all of which are trying to grow the most vegetables in the shortest amount of time. But it won’t be easy — other players will be fighting for space in the garden, along with the pesky Groundhog...
mixed, 50%
14 y/o +
2 to 4 players
30 minutes
Light
Family Game
Animals
Farming
Area Majority / Influence
Open Drafting
Set Collection
Stock Holding
Stock Holding games published by Lucrum Games
Pack-O-Game: DIG - A Fetching Game of Seek
-19%
$4.95
$4.00
Each player is a dog, digging for bones and returning them to dog bowls. Bones will have different values based on the activity in the yard. The dog with the most valuable bones is the champ!
mixed, 62%
10 y/o +
2 to 4 players
15 minutes
Light
Strategy Game
Animals
Deduction
Action Points
Area Majority / Influence
Hand Management
Stock Holding games illustrated by Cezary Szulc
Last Spike, The
$39.98
In the Last Spike players cooperate to build a continuous railway from St. Louis to Sacramento. Different routes are possible and some towns never get a railway link. Each player competes to accumulate the most money from land speculation before the...
mixed, 65%
10 y/o +
2 to 6 players
45 minutes
Relaxed
Economic
Trains
Stock Holding
Tile Placement
Stock Holding games designed by John Harres
18 India
-28%
$88.00
$63.52
At the dawn of the 19th century, the invention of the steam locomotive transformed ground transportation forever. From the purview of those looking to line their pockets, few places were more enticing than India. Under the guise of proving a service ...
mixed, 67%
14 y/o +
2 to 5 players
150 minutes
Involved
Trains
Stock Holding
