A Wild New Spin on the Stock Market
Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is the follow up to the delightfully strange Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, and it somehow manages to crank the weirdness even higher. This time you are not flipping alien organs for profit. You are trading alien babies on an intergalactic stock market.
Developed by the same team behind Clickolding and El Paso Elsewhere, the sequel leans into absurd capitalism in space. It treats alien infants like volatile assets to be speculated on, complete with chaotic price swings, shadowy brokers, and a constant stream of bizarre life events that affect each babbys value.
The first gameplay trailer debuted during the PC Gaming Show Most Wanted, and there is already a demo available on Steam for players who want to experiment with this unhinged baby market before the full release in early 2026.
How Trading Alien Babies Actually Works
The core of Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is the trading day. Each session you pick a baby to focus on and then dive into the market to try to exploit price changes for profit. Just like a stock or crypto chart, the value of your chosen baby spikes up and crashes down in real time.
You are not trading randomly though. You can find shady brokers who offer insights into where the market might be heading. These contacts act like your insider tipsters, helping you decide whether to buy, sell, or bet against a particular baby.
While you trade, the game narrates the baby’s life events on screen. These moments are both darkly funny and mechanically important. Things like:
- Playing with sticks
- Getting lost in a maze
- Surviving dangerous encounters
- Winning a knife fight
Each event can increase or decrease the baby’s value, sometimes dramatically. The values fly around so quickly that you have to pay close attention to both the narrative and the graphs.
Your trading options are also limited. You can only make a certain number of buys, and those buy actions do not reset until you start selling shares. That restriction forces you to think like a real trader, picking the best possible moments to jump in and out of the market instead of spamming trades.
One particularly entertaining mechanic the trailer highlights is shorting a baby. In classic market terms, shorting means betting that the price will go down. If the value crashes after you short it, you profit. If it rises, you pay the price. In the trailer, a baby’s value skyrockets after winning a knife fight, making that moment a prime time to bet against it in the hope that its value will soon collapse again. It is ridiculous, morbid, and very on brand for this series.
On top of normal trading, there are optional side bets that let you gamble on extra conditions for bigger rewards. These can make you a lot of money or wipe you out if you misread the chaos.
Style, Vibes, and Why It Stands Out
Just like the original Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, the sequel thrives on atmosphere. The interface is built around pulsing graphs and bold UI elements, and it is tied together with a driving electronic soundtrack that sells the feeling of high speed, high risk speculation. The music makes every spike in the chart feel like a rush and every crash feel like a disaster.
It is not a serious finance tool and it is definitely not financial advice. Instead it uses the language of stock markets to make a sharp and often hilarious point about over the top capitalism. The idea of treating babies like fluctuating assets is intentionally uncomfortable, but it is framed in such a strange, alien, overblown way that it ends up more satirical than grim.
For PC gamers, this is one of those niche titles that hits a specific itch. If you enjoyed the first game’s dark humor and trading mechanics, this sequel looks like a genuine upgrade, not just a simple reskin. The gameplay loop is focused, the life event system adds personality to every asset you trade, and the extra layers like side bets and shorting add strategic depth to the chaos.
You can try the demo on Steam right now if you are curious how it feels to gamble on the lives of interstellar infants. If you would rather wait for more polish and content, you can simply add it to your wishlist ahead of its planned early 2026 launch.
If betting on alien babies is a bit much for your taste, the PC Gaming Show Most Wanted lineup has plenty of other PC focused announcements to dig into. But in terms of sheer personality, very few games will compete with the sight of desperate stockbrokers waving cash at bug eyed alien newborns while a synth track blasts in the background.
Original article and image: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/events-conferences/a-game-where-you-buy-and-sell-stocks-based-on-the-lives-on-alien-babies-has-a-demo-out-now/
