Dealer's Life

Dealer's Life is a tycoon game about running a pawn shop. You negotiate with randomly generated customers to buy and sell items, using your negotiation, psychology and management skills to build your pawn business. Procedurally generated customers, special characters and random events make each playthrough unpredictable.

Negotiating with customers

The game features thousands of customers with distinct psychological traits, appearances and behaviors. Their traits affect how they respond to your offers: they may accept, make a counteroffer, reject the deal and leave, get angry, or insist on a final offer. Their reactions also depend on how your offer compares with their perceived value of the item.

Items’ real values are never displayed. You and your customers estimate them based on your Competence skill, with no in-game guides or tutorials. Your judgment can help you spot counterfeit goods and identify items with potential.

Develop your skills

Your character’s skills shape how you handle exchanges. Experience can improve your ability to detect fakes and recognize promising goods, while psychological abilities let you persuade customers to accept better deals or sell valuable items they do not recognize for a lower price.

Reputation and consequences

Random events can be influenced by the reputation you build and may revisit past decisions, such as failing to spot a fake or scamming a customer who turns out to be connected to the local mafia. Making more money carries risks and consequences shaped by the integrity of your choices, as you decide when to act cunningly and when to follow the law.