Banker of the Gods

Banker of the Gods is a game about superstitious civilizations competing on a friendly stock-market set in an ancient Japanese-inspired world. It has a unique stock-market mechanism that allows for deduction of market trends before you invest for the next round. There are over a million different kinds of markets to be generated. The market may booming during this game, and other games you will have a depression to survive or thrive in. A medium-weight worker placement game for 1-5 players. In this alternate universe China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome have been attracted to a lucrative stock-market on Oki island in ancient Japan. Besides stocks you may also try to succeed at having other players honor your Gods and harnessing their powers, or by dabbling with products like Sake (linked to the price of rice), or helping islanders by giving them home-loans for the best locations, or even trying your luck with tea-leaves at the Geisha house, among other things. All illustrated in a colorful Japanese wood-block art style. Traditionally stock market games have unfriendly take-that, Banker of the Gods doesn't. vMaster the ancient art of banking to become the Banker of the Gods.