WallStreetBets-inspired market meme games / 0DTE emotional damage
Tiny market games for macro degenerates, perma-bears and people who definitely should not trade 0DTE options.
This is not financial advice. It is barely game design.
Playable games
Choose your market delusion: candlestick bird trauma or oil panic logistics.
Degen Arcade is a free browser-based market meme game arcade for stock market meme games, trading meme games, candlestick chaos and margin call memes.
Stonkbird is a WallStreetBets-style candlestick arcade game with Bull Mode and Bear Mode. Open the F***ing Strait is a satirical oil panic arcade game about tankers, shipping lanes, geopolitical risk premiums and extremely normal futures markets.
Choose your market delusion
Click, tap or press Space to jump.
Dodge red candles, chase the pump.
Dodge green candles, crash the SPX.
Final print has settled.
Final S&P 500 Index: 5000
An oil panic arcade game for macro degenerates.
Aim with mouse, tap or drag. Click/tap to fire. Auto-reload. Satire only. Not financial advice. Not maritime advice.
Clear FUD, keep tankers moving and stabilize oil before panic goes vertical.
Spread cartoon FUD, reroute tankers and push oil price into boss mode.
Oil futures doing parkour.
Game guides
These games are playable satire, but each mode has concrete rules, scoring and fail states.
Bull Mode starts at an S&P 500-style index value of 5000. The goal is to survive, dodge red candles and collect dollar pickups. Dollars build toward power events, while clean candle dodges push the index higher. The run ends when the player hits a hostile candle or crashes into the edge of the chart.
Bear Mode flips the joke. The player dodges bullish green candles, collects put coins and tries to drag the index toward zero. The mode uses different scoring pressure, different collision expectations and a separate local best crash score, so it is not just a color swap of Bull Mode.
Open Mode is about keeping three shipping lanes functional. Tankers can be normal, fast or heavy, and each type has different travel time and impact. Clearing FUD clouds, red candle strikes, insurance spikes and blockade barriers lowers panic and keeps oil from moving vertically.
Bear Mode is about creating event chains rather than simply tapping every tanker. Drone rumors, insurance shocks, shipping advisories and missile alerts mark tankers for larger reroute rewards. Direct reroutes are safer but weaker; event reroutes build combo and move oil faster.
Scores reward successful play: delivered tankers, cleared obstacles, streaks, reroutes and mode-specific goals. Highscores and achievements are stored locally in the browser with localStorage. There is no account system, no leaderboard upload and no payment flow.
The market language is intentionally absurd. The games do not provide financial, investment, trading, shipping or geopolitical advice. Market names, meme phrases and index references are used as parody and game flavor, not as instructions or claims.
Next market disasters
Degen Arcade is maintained as a small playable arcade first. New ideas stay secondary until the current games are useful, stable and clearly explained.
A satirical oil panic arcade game about tankers, shipping lanes, geopolitical risk premiums and extremely normal futures markets.
A central-bank satire prototype about liquidity, delayed consequences and markets pretending not to notice the obvious.
This roadmap note documents a possible future direction while the arcade remains focused on the two playable games above.
A planned panic-management joke about ignoring risk, margin calls and all the warning signs that were visible from space.
The current priority is improving the two live games and documenting how they work before adding another playable mode.
About
Degen Arcade is a tiny collection of market meme games about bubbles, crashes, oil shocks, 0DTE options and the emotional damage caused by candlesticks.
Current playable games include Stonkbird, a WallStreetBets-style candlestick arcade game, and Open the F***ing Strait, a satirical oil panic arcade game about tanker logistics, FUD and futures-market hysteria.
Everything here is satire. Nothing here is financial advice or maritime advice. If a cartoon bull tells you to buy calls, seek help.
Plain English
Degen Arcade is a free browser-based market meme game arcade about bull markets, bear markets, candlesticks, margin calls, 0DTE options and macro chaos.
Stonkbird is the first playable Degen Arcade game. It is a stock market meme arcade game with Bull Mode and Bear Mode.
Open the F***ing Strait is a satirical oil panic arcade game with Open Mode and Bear Mode. It uses a stylized map, cartoon tankers and market panic jokes, not realistic conflict.
Bull Mode is the "number go up" version. Dodge red candles, collect dollars and chase the pump.
Bear Mode is the "road to zero" version. Dodge green candles, collect put coins and try to crash the S&P 500 toward zero.
No. Degen Arcade is satire and entertainment. Nothing on this website is financial advice.
No. Degen Arcade uses WallStreetBets-style humor, but it is not affiliated with Reddit, WallStreetBets or any financial institution.
Yes. The games are free to play in your browser.
The roadmap includes experiments around central bank jokes, liquidity and margin calls. New ideas are documented as design notes while Stonkbird and Open the Strait remain the core playable arcade.