History VideoGame / OffworldTradingCompany

* PenalColony: Reclamation Inc, the Scavenger corporation, are a corporation that take in employees with debts or questionable pasts and send them to Mars on a five-year indenture, after which their slate is wiped clean. Definitely a case of the inmates running the asylum; they have a loose view of regulations and building codes, and quite a few connections with [[TotallyNotACriminalFront independent contractors]].

* PenalColony: Reclamation Inc, the Scavenger corporation, are a corporation that take in employees with debts or questionable pasts and send them to Mars on a five-year indenture, after which their slate is wiped clean. Definitely a case of the inmates running the asylum; they have a loose view of regulations and building codes, and quite a few connections with [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub independent contractors]].

* TechnicalPacifist: There is no killing in Offworld. Only lots and lots of sabotage.

* PlayerGeneratedEconomy: A major game feature. All thirteen resources are available for purchase at all times, with prices rising and falling with the player's purchases and sales. Prices also change with randomly generated surpluses, shortages, and weather effects. Then the market can be manipulated by ''hacking''. The offworld market averts this, though; nothing you do changes the prices on Earth or in the asteroid belt.

* PenalColony: Reclamation Industries, the Scavenger corporation, are a corporation that take in employees with debts or questionable pasts and send them to Mars on a five-year indenture, after which their slate is wiped clean. Definitely a case of the inmates running the asylum; they have a loose view of regulations and building codes, and quite a few connections with [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub independent contractors]].

* IndenturedServitude: Not only Reclamation Industries and their "employees" on five-year contracts getting them out of debtor's prison, but Seneca's employees are said to throw themselves into permanent levels of debt to buy their tickets to Mars.

* ChildProdigy: Maisie Song, a child, is the avatar and AI player for the Expansive colony, Secena Industries, whose artwork depicts a classroom of child entrepreneurs in training.

'''''Offworld Trading Company''''' is a 2015 RealTimeStrategy game created by Mowhawk Games and published by Stardock Entertainment. Players assume the role of competing companies colonizing Mars, with the goal of conquering the other companies...with a catch. There are ''no'' military units, and ''no'' killing. Only economic victory is possible. Players capture tiles, extract resources, and perform trade in an entirely player driven market. No player can have every resource they need to expand their colony, yet every resource is always available in the market, with [[PlayerGeneratedEconomy prices rising and falling depending on player behavior.]] Yet not all is total pacifism in Offworld. Players can access a BlackMarket to purchase methods of sabotage opponents' resource production, steal resources, or even hack the resource market to produce artificial resource surpluses and shortages.