While there are many financial concepts and tools worth explaining and reviewing as part of learning personal finance, another fun way to start learning about money or various financial tools is to use games. To be clear, games are never a 100% realistic representation of how a given financial situation would work in the real world, but good ones can give an idea of how things are supposed to work and help with familiarity with the mechanisms. of various financial interactions or transactions.

A classic example of this type of game is Paper Trading, in which players trade stocks with fake money and see how much they can win or lose. The reality is that even though paper trading uses real prices, it is simply not the same as trading with real money in the real stock market. But it can help you get an idea of what it means to choose a stock, decide how much you want to invest, and see how prices may fluctuate over time.

Although many different companies offer paper trading, we also want to include a few games that can be played directly in your browser. The first is Build Your Stax, which offers players a monthly income and a fixed period of time to grow their wealth as much as possible.

The other is Time For Payback, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek game about paying off student loans.

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