In either case, you need to make more money than your opponents, and you have to do it faster than them. You can turn a profit even if you don’t have the resources yourself, assuming it’s cheap enough on Mars and expensive enough offworld.ĭepending on modes, you’ll sometimes need to buy out your opponents’ companies – just a friendly little hostile takeover of a rival corporations – while other modes will have you racing to invest the most into a new colony. The titular offworld trading usually comes into play late game as well, and acts as a direct “buy low, sell high” tool for offloading resource stockpiles or just earning some quick cash. Long-term goals usually include producing Glass, Chemicals, or Electronics, which seem to be the most reliably sound investment for on-the-spot trading.
One game, you may strike it rich with a stockpile of O2, while another game the O2 price plummets, but your silicon stores keep you afloat.
Every game plays out differently, as different forces sway the market in different directions. The hitch is that there are a lot of different types of resources that you have to choose from, and resources are all you’ll ever have to fight with. It’s not so complex that it stops being fun, but it’s involved enough that those with an innate distaste for numbers games should steer clear.Įvery game of OTC starts with fundamentally similar and likely familiar base building. If you’re scared of math or just hate spreadsheets, steer clear, as OTC is predicated on a quick eye for trending resource prices and on-the-fly cost-benefit analysis. It wasn’t anything like I had expected, and puts a unique twist on the strategy genre with your in-game power being directly correlated to your business and investment prowess. Offworld Trading Company wasn’t something that immediately jumped out at me as a must play, but the more I heard about it, the more it intrigued me, and I finally sat down with it to check it out.
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