The Desk: Trading Roguelike

The Desk is a deck-building roguelike where every run is a stretch of market history. $3 million of the firm's money, and $500,000 of room before the loss limit. You are a futures trader at a prop desk. Touch the loss limit and you are fired. Mismanage your margin, take a margin call, and forced liquidation ends the run. The Asian crisis of 1997, the dot-com bust, 2008, the pandemic crash. Ten eras built from historical daily prices are waiting. ■ ONE DAY, ONE TURN Play your cards, then end the day. Go long or short, set a stop, take profit, buy a call or a put, read the research. That day's candle plays out on the chart, and your orders fill where the market went. ■ HISTORY, NEW EVERY RUN Ten eras from 1997 to 2025. Each run picks an era, cuts it into three acts and deals a fresh map, so memorizing dates will not save you. Boss weeks carry the rules in force at the time: circuit breakers, price limits, margin hikes. ■ BUILD A DECK AND A DESK More than 50 cards, 29 trading principles and 7 setups. Combine cards into setups such as Bracket, Fade or Hedge to multiply your score. The setups you win with level up, and you hire quants, analysts and a risk manager to fill your desk. ■ SIZE IS THE GAME A dial sets how much of the account goes into each entry, from 5% to 50%. Small size survives. Big size makes the target, or gets you fired. ■ LEARN AS YOU PLAY Margin, leverage, stops, options, moving averages, inflation and jobs data. Nearly 200 notebook entries and an 11-part basics course open up as you use them. No finance background needed. ■ THREE TRADERS The Quant, the Gut Trader and the Value Investor. Each reads the market in their own way and starts with a different deck. ■ MADE FOR TOUCH Landscape, fully offline, no ads and no account. Close the app in the middle of a trade and pick up on the same day. Play the United States or the Korean market, in English or Korean. The Desk is a game for entertainment and education. It is not investment advice. Prices, indicators and news are based on historical records, and some values are estimated or adapted for play.