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Billmeade Gaming · Published by Billmeade Gaming
3 user reviews — 100% positive (3 reviews) · 8 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Buy calls. Sell puts. Lose it all on a Friday. YOLO Mode is a high-stakes options trading simulator where financial ruin is one bad earnings play away.
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Simulation, Strategy · 2026 · More under £5 games
About this game
You've seen the memes. Now live them.
YOLO Mode is an options trading simulator built for the degenerate investor in all of us. Start with a modest bankroll, pick your strikes, manage your Greeks, and watch your portfolio either moon or crater in real time — usually the latter.
Whether you're a first-timer who just learned what a call option is, or a seasoned trader who blew up their account and wants to do it again in a consequence-free environment, YOLO Mode meets you where you are.
Five Ways to Lose Your Shirt:
YOLO Challenge — Pure chaos. Pick a ticker, bet a direction, survive to Friday. Win streaks feed the Hall of Fame. Lose streaks feed your therapist.
Career Mode — 12-month campaign. $10K starting stack, monthly profit targets, covered calls, spreads, iron condors. For when you want to feel sophisticated before losing money in a more complex way.
Deep Value — Relive the most infamous short squeeze in market history. Build your thesis, rally the apes, testify before Congress. "I like the stock."
Survival — Endless mode with escalating weekly expenses. How long can you last before the bills eat you alive?
Daily Challenge — Same seed for every player. Same stocks, same news, same market. Prove you're better than the rest of us on the global leaderboard.
Under the Hood:
Real options math — Black-Scholes pricing, theta decay, IV crush after earnings. It's all modeled.
Mid-day breaking news events that pause the sim and force a 10-second decision: HOLD, SELL NOW, or DOUBLE DOWN.
Limit orders, partial sells, 1x/2x/4x/instant speed control. You're in the chair.
Sector rotation, market mood, insider tips (with SEC investigation risk — don't get caught).
8 trader ranks from Paper Trader to Master of the Universe. Unlock volatile stocks, higher leverage tiers, and multi-leg strategies as you climb.
8 achievements, per-mode high scores, Steam Cloud saves.
Hall of Fame — Your best (and worst) weeks are immortalized. Flex your 4,000% return. Confess your 98% loss.
It's educational. No really. You will genuinely learn how options pricing works. The hard way.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. This is not financial advice. Please do not take financial advice from a video game.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7+ (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4000 / AMD equivalent (2 cores, 2 GHz)
- Graphics: Integrated graphics (Intel HD 4000 / AMD Radeon R5)
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: Intel i5-6500 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (4 cores, 3+ GHz)
- Graphics: GTX 960 / RX 470 or modern integrated (Intel UHD 630)
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
August Update — UX Enhancements, Accessibility & UI Polish
Hey traders,This update focuses on safer saves, clearer trading feedback, stronger controller support, responsive high-scale layouts, and a major localization pass across all seven supported languages.There are no trading-balance, economy, or payout-math changes in this update.Save Safety & MenusAdded a second confirmation before erasing saved Deep Value, Career, or Survival runs. Saves remain untouched until “ERASE & START OVER” is explicitly confirmed.Restyled every save-discarding “NEW RUN” or “NEW CAREER” action with colors coded style.Trading Feedback & ClarityUnified result celebrations across cinematics, summaries, and share cards.Standardized the result tiers as 10-BAGGER, MOONSHOT, TENDIES, NICE, OUCH, and GUH.Deep Value’s squeeze meter now displays its real trigger threshold instead of / 100.Improved squeeze messaging when pressure has cleared the threshold but other conditions remain.Deep Value charts now redraw immediately after window resizing or UI-scale changes.Career tabs now visibly identify the active section.Career net-worth chart month markers are now localized.Career option actions now say “SELL” instead of “CLOSE.”Trader Profile profit, win, and loss colors now remain correct in every language.LocalizationCompleted a broad remediation pass for English, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.Updated menus, Daily play, standings, Broker, Career, Survival, Deep Value, challenges, achievements, journals, perks, the Clout Shop, tutorials, market feeds, results, and Steam rich presence.Numbers, currencies, percentages, dates, ranks, streaks, XP, shares, contracts, followers, weeks, and months now consistently follow the selected locale.Added proper singular and plural grammar, including Russian one/few/many forms and correct grammar for abbreviated counts.Call and put contract counts can now use grammatically appropriate wording.Removed hardcoded percentage labels from sell presets, order scenarios, intro tic...Read full article on Community Announcements (Billmeade Gaming)AnnouncementsOfficial
UI Overhaul, Balancing, More Gameplay Depth, And Public high Scores
1. New featuresDaily Challenge — one shared market for everyone, one attempt, deterministic seed, Friday decides. Versioned Steam leaderboards with real ranks past the top 10.Clout + Prestige — a cross-mode meta-currency earned in every mode, spent on optional permanent boosts or cashed out; prestige tier on top.Shareable result cards — the game exports a real PNG of your run (ticker, %, verdict) for posting.Terminal-noir visual identity — studio boot splash, one continuous boot cinematic, and a main menu rebuilt as a physical trade ticket: perforations, serial number, barcode, week timeline, ORDER ACCEPTED stamp, ambient market pulse.Steam Deck mode — auto-detected, with UI scale bump, heavier focus rings, and the overlay keyboard wired into the name prompt.2. Systems overhauls (the "it lies to you less" theme)Leverage rebuilt — posted margin is now premium + financing, losses liquidate at the posted floor, financing is itemized in the weekly summary, and the buy confirmation shows a real leveraged potential instead of a 1:1 figure.Earnings honesty — reports fire even if you hold nothing; a neutral "IN LINE" state replaces false BEAT/MISS on small prints; results no longer repeat across replays; unprofitable meme names print the wildest moves; the after-hours move is now signed (−5.2%, not a bare 5.2%).Take-profit / stop-loss are opt-in — no more silent defaults quietly auto-selling your winners.Midday Double Down actually doubles the whole position, with honest affordability.Sector-aware analyst whispers, and the tutorial no longer overstates how leverage works.3. Mode by modeDeep Value — save/resume, squeeze mechanics, settlement feedback, new narrative content; squeeze rebalanced so informed play ignites ~79% of the time; community size at ignition now amplifies the rally; conviction reachable at human scale; forgiveness pass so one bad week doesn't kill the thesis. Public all-time best-return leaderboard.Career — overall P/L now includes options, crashes appear...Read full article on Community Announcements (Billmeade Gaming)Patch NotesOfficial
The Search For More Tendies Update
💎 YOLO Mode — The Search For More Tendies UpdateTwo months ago we yeeted YOLO Mode onto Steam. Since then we've been updating our other released games, anbd working on a new game with our heads-down, but we haven't forgotten about this game. We been spending time wiring up every system that shipped bolted-on-but-not-plugged-in, rebalancing every mode until the math actually rewards conviction, and squashing the kind of bugs that make a degen alt-F4. This is the big one — our first major update, and it touches literally every mode in the game.🆕 Switched On (new stuff you can actually use now)Perks system is LIVE— pick 1 of 3 perks before each week, stack them acrossa win streak, and lose them all when the streak breaks. Hit a 3-streak and you'll getthe Double or Nothing offer: half stake, double payout, total ruin. 12 perks,all fully wired.The Degenerates Feed — a live WSB-style chat docked next to your trades thatreacts to your buys, your gains, your losses, your diamond-handing, and the news. Itwill hype you up. It will also roast you.Settlement cinematic — weeks now close out with a proper moment: the freeze,the gold close-line, the animated P/L count-up, and a reaction tiered to how hard youwon or got wiped.The market is alive now — market mood, weekly news, sector heat, insider tips,and SEC investigations all feed into real price drift. Reading the tape is finally askill that pays.New stock: SpaceX ($SPCX) — a fresh high-volatility moonshot joins the board,bringing the lineup to 24 tickers. All prices refreshed to current 2026 quotes.Dynamic music — that ramps with the intensity of a live trade, plus a guidedfirst trade for fresh apes.🎮 Every Mode RebalancedCareer Mode — the big fix. The market used to go basically nowhere over ayear, top grades were mathematically unreachable, and the Q4 dividend never even paid.Now the market trends up like a real index, picking better stocks actually earns youalpha, grades are tuned to be achievable (S is still a legendary st...Read full article on Community Announcements (Billmeade Gaming)
