Offworld Trading Company

Offworld Trading Company makes economics the whole game: buying, selling, cornering markets, and trying to keep a colony alive with sharp decisions instead of armies. By our assessment, that ruthless market play is what it does best, because every move has a price and every shortage matters. The downside is that it is not a relaxed builder; it wants attention, quick reading of the board, and a taste for pressure. In practice it feels fast and tense, with a lot of numbers, shifting supply, and the constant worry that a better rival move is coming. Against other strategy games, it stands out for treating profit and sabotage as the main battlefield. Offworld Trading Company is for players who enjoy economic competition more than grand military plans.