Probably Stolen

Probably Stolen is a business game set in a towering space station divided by wealth and corruption. You play a former scavenger who opens a storefront with a loan, selling goods of uncertain origins while rent rises and factions watch. Customers may be security agents gathering evidence, revolutionaries seeking leverage or fallen elites testing your usefulness. Each sale can bring profit or trouble: you can approve it, refuse it, report it or look away. Your reputation can earn access and protection, but also makes you a target.

Choose your trade

You can start as a gunsmith, chemist, water merchant, fence or farmer, or begin with nothing. Each product line has its own profit curve and risks: weapons bring inspections, chemicals bring addiction, water brings liability, and contraband can bring raids. Some trades require heavy machinery and permits; others need a good hiding place. You can also take on jobs such as organ dealing, and balance supply and demand by attracting the right customers.

Assess your stock

Items need different kinds of inspection before you sell them. Cigarette packs need visual checks, water must be tested and filtered, weapons require permits and modifications, profitable chemicals depend on closely guarded recipes, and rare goods need appraisal. You can haggle with suppliers and customers, reduce product quality, pass counterfeits off as genuine, or fence discounted stolen goods if you think Security will not find them. Suppliers may overstate value, customers may push their luck, and contraband can have problems you only discover after a deal is done. Misjudging an item or its seller leaves you to absorb the cost, and stolen goods can bring mob justice.

Grow your business

Keep up with rent to expand your operation, run multiple businesses and unlock new merchandise and production opportunities. Some goods can be made using machines and production chains, while advanced licenses open access to the underground market. You can expand your inventory and build connections with factions to pursue exclusive deals. Rent continues to rise, though, and confiscated stock or a bad deal can leave you short of your next payment.

Watch the station

A sentient AI chip has gone rogue and taken its hosts with it. These augmented people look like everyone else until they do not, so you need to watch for signs. Every faction supports the policy of identifying them, and you have the gun to enforce it. Missing or misreading the signs has consequences.

Deals and factions

You can profit from the arrogant elite by selling counterfeit goods, exploit the less fortunate or help them, and hide stolen goods and contraband from the authorities. If you are caught, you can try to bribe your way out.