WORLD END ECONOMiCA: Spice and Wolf Author's SF Finance Visual Novel Gets Steam Spotlight
Automaton's feature frames the stock market as an adventure stage where price swings test characters' humanity, turning what could be a dry finance lesson into a personal youth drama driven by a single dream.
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Automaton's Steam discovery series spotlights WORLD END ECONOMiCA, a three-part visual novel by dōjin circle Spicy Tails, written by Isuna Hasekura of Spice and Wolf fame. Set on the Moon, it follows Haru, a boy who turns to stock trading to fund his dream of reaching uncharted territory. The series launched as a dōjin work in 2011, with episodes hitting Steam in 2014, 2015, and 2016. A complete bundle and a Nintendo Switch version are available.
Automaton's ongoing series on overlooked domestic Steam titles turns its attention to WORLD END ECONOMiCA, the Moon-set visual novel from the circle Spicy Tails. The scenario comes from Isuna Hasekura, the writer behind Spice and Wolf, and it is a three-part story that began as a dōjin release in 2011.
The first episode landed on Steam in 2014, the second in 2015, and the third in 2016, with a complete bundle and a Nintendo Switch version also on offer. The setting is a lunar city sixteen years into humanity's migration, where a boy named Haru chases his dream of standing on uncharted territory by trading stocks. The market here is not a numbers game but a stage where desire, fear, and impatience test each character, and Haru's personal quest for money ties directly into that larger system.
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