Player Guide — everything a new player needs to get from "I just logged in" to "I know what I'm doing." Friendly, no jargon walls.
A living economy you play inside, not a set of minigames.
Econosquare is one shared world where prices, news, companies, banks and whole regions react to real economic logic — and to what players do. You start as a small investor with some cash and a desk. Read the world, place trades, complete work for clients, grow your reputation, and over time unlock bigger roles: running companies, banks, holdings, even sitting on institutions that steer the economy. There's no single "win" — you build a career and a track record. Take it slow; the game rewards reading and timing more than clicking fast.
If you only do one thing today, do these in order. ~10 minutes.
Open the brief / news feed first. It tells you what's moving and why. Don't trade before you've glanced at it — it's your map. Tip: this alone completes an easy daily task and pays a little XP.
Pick a single news item and trace it. Example: oil rises → transport and inflation rise → inflation-linked bonds and energy names get more interesting. You don't need to trade it — just start seeing the chains.
These are short, guided challenges (e.g. "which instrument is most affected by this signal?"). They teach the economy through live situations and pay cash + XP. Great low-risk way to learn.
Use the Order Ticket. Buy a small amount of something you understand — an index or a solid equity is a calm start. Watch the fill, the fee and how your wallet changes. Size small on purpose: this is a lesson, not a bet.
See what you own, your risk, your liquidity, and your profit/loss. This is your cockpit — check it after every few trades. Ask yourself: what's my risk, what produces income, what could I sell right now?
Check your inbox. Clients ask you to do real, paid tasks ("build a defensive allocation", "add real equity exposure"). Accept one, complete it, get paid + reputation. This is the core money-and-XP loop early on.
Open the Skills Atlas and learn your first node (Bond Basics or Equity Reading are good openers). Skills aren't decoration — they gate better tools, harder contracts and future roles.
See how you stack up. Don't chase rank on day one — early on, learning beats grinding. The ladder rewards how you grow (steady, controlled), not just raw numbers.
What each part of your screen is for, and how to actually use it.
Your identity and progress: Level, XP, Expertise, Reputation. Level comes from XP (activity, contracts, net-worth milestones), not from wealth alone. Reputation reflects how reliably you play. Higher roles later check all of these.
The bar shows XP to your next level.
The cross-asset board: equities, indices, bonds, FX, rates, commodities, options, credit — all in one language. Prices react to player flow, bots, liquidity, ratings, maturities, regional macro and news. Goal isn't to memorize rows, it's to understand cause and effect.
Where you buy and sell. Realistic units apply (shares from 1, bonds by nominal lots, derivatives by contract). When you own companies/banks/holdings you can choose which wallet the asset goes to. Start with market orders, small size; graduate to limit orders once you're comfortable.
Your financial cockpit: allocations, positions, risk, income, and separate books for personal assets vs. companies/banks/holdings. It answers: what do I own, where's my risk, what earns income, what can I sell now.
Explains why the world moves. Items come from real market, macro and institutional events. Read them as signals: oil affects transport and inflation; credit affects banks; confidence affects risk appetite. Good players trade the read-through, not the headline.
Lightweight live challenges that teach by doing. They pay cash, XP and sometimes Expertise. Use them as your daily warm-up — they're the fastest, safest way to learn how the world connects.
Your inbox delivers paid client work and system messages. Accepted contracts move into your request book so you can track them. Early contracts teach basics; later ones need timing, hedging, collateral and corporate decisions. Some clients even come back with multi-step storylines.
A node map of what you can learn. Green = available, blue = learned, purple/orange = advanced or rare paths. Skills gate trading tools, company actions, bank leadership and institutional roles — plan a path, don't spend randomly.
Companies, banks and holdings can borrow here (not the private player directly). Borrowers pledge eligible assets as collateral and pay interest weekly in game time. Useful for growth — but missed payments push entities toward distress and default.
Rating agencies, banking authorities, clearing houses and market architects monitor the world and publish auditable actions. At first these are run by the system; later, qualified players can take these seats under strict limits and public accountability.
Boards like Portfolio Efficiency and Capital Climber rank players. Efficiency is risk-adjusted: return matters, but so do keeping risk in check, avoiding big drawdowns, not over-concentrating, and staying active. See the FAQ below for how scoring works.
The in-client lobby is quick text chat; the Forum is for strategy, welcome threads and longer discussion. Profiles and public markers help identify who's contributing to the economy and the community.
The questions new players ask most — answered simply.
No — buying nudges a price up, selling nudges it down, like a real market. If a stock keeps falling while you buy, that's the wider market trending down, not your order. In a thin market a single buy can't fight the overall direction — so buying into a falling market (averaging down) will keep showing red until the trend turns.
Levels come from XP. You earn XP from desk tasks, client contracts, real trading, and net-worth milestones (yes — growing your capital now gives progression too). Raw wealth alone doesn't hand you levels: the game rewards activity and skill, so a rich player who never engages the desk will still level slowly. Your desk shows exactly how much XP is left to the next level.
It's not just raw return. The score blends your period return with good habits — enough liquidity, low drawdown, not everything in one name, and real activity — and penalizes reckless risk. So a clean, controlled result can beat a wild all-in that swung hard. Also: the "% return" on each board is measured for that window (Week / Month / Year), from your net worth at the start of it — so your all-time performance can be higher than any single window shows.
Usually it went into other positions you bought, or fees. Every trade is recorded, so a full purchase/transaction history screen is on the way to make this easy to reconcile. If numbers still look wrong after that, ping us on Discord with your nick.
By design — Econosquare rewards patience, reading and timing over speed. The first levels are about learning the loops: read → allocate → complete work → build reputation. It opens up fast once companies, banks and roles unlock.
Short term: complete desk tasks and a couple of client contracts each session, keep your risk sane, and learn one new skill. Medium term: build a diversified book and a founder-grade capital base. Long term: companies, banks, holdings and institutional mandates. Reputation and a clean track record open the biggest doors.