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Dealer's Life
Developer Abyte Entertainment
Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game! From the Steam store page
171 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
88
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146 positive · 20 negative
95% range 82–92%
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| Steam reviews | 146 | 20 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,243 of 1,332 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 171 · most liked firstThis game is a time waster. Once you've advanced through the first hour, everything is the exact same. New items do appear, but the negotiations become incredibly repititious. This game will suck you in, and leave you feeling unrewarded. 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →enjoyed immensely, but only issue I had is that there are no hot keys. Being a paraplegic, I use voice activated software to play games, and it would be light-years easier if I could just say a key instead of relying on moving the mouse.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game! I have had it since it launched on the play store for mobile devices. I like how I can play it in a windowed tab and often play while watching tv on my laptop. I wish the game offered more things such as leaderboards so you can see how you compare to other players. I have beat the game a few times with 24 weeks been the fastest to complete. and was wondering how that compares to other players. Other things I think that would be cool would be head to head competitions where…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is very easy. You can finish it in a few hours :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Controller Update (aka Update #53) of Dealer's Life 2 is now live! 🎮 Controller support 🎨 Improved UI, colors, and highlighting ⏸️ You can now pause the auction timer when the in-game tablet is open 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/1343670/... #wishlistwednesday #indiedev #gamedev
unlabelledView post →4 hours into the game and I finally saved up enough money to buy a legendary item for $25,000 and another $25,000 into it to upgrade it and authenticate it. I'm in this thing $52,000. It's worth $106,000 now. Some NPC mafia guy comes in and bullies me, I choose the option to not pay him to get rep++ and tells me he will forget what I said if i give him 2 items. NO OTHER OPTIONS. I was thinking, this game wouldn't screw me like this and take my most expensive items right? NOPE. It took my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is really addictive! It's easy to understand and even after the end of the "story" I still spent heaps of hours in this game without getting bored. You can't go wrong with this game if you love to negotiate and keep trying to get higher profits.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely worth the money. Awesome time killer.. No seriously, TIME KILLER! 11PM I was messed up tired and ready for bed, looked at the clock, told myself "aight one more round then I can sleep" that was almost 6hours ago -,- The variation in this is pretty low, you can pretty much memorise the items value if you got a decent memory. I hope more events come along, maybe some "defence", people who play the game know what I mean by "defense". Anyway, worth! Get it if, you just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game starts off pretty strong, early game where each dollar you make matters a lot and the choices you need to make are pretty impactful like when to upgrade your shop or which employee's to hire, but after 3 hours or so you reach a point where you can hire any employee you need and you skip %90 of your customers without even bargaining because the items they bring are not worth your time. There are 3 different endings but most likely you'll get the first one as its the easiest and most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dealer’s Life Update 1.30 is OUT NOW! ➡️ store.steampowered.com/news/app/982... It's been 10 whole years since the very first design draft of Dealer's Life! 😱 We're incredibly happy and proud of our first game success and of the amazing support it continues to receive to this day. ❤️
unlabelledView post →The best pawn shop simulator all of the time 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ːsteamthumbsupː
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →12.7 Hours in 1 day... Disgusting game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little Pawn Shop game with over 500 items at the moment. Different rarities: uncommon, common, rare, epic, mythic and legendary. Start off with a starter shop right away, start to buy and sell and watch your shop go from tiny shop to an multi-million dollar empire. You can haggle with the customers, which is great. But the customers have their very own personalities, all procedurally generated. You have 5 skills: Competence, Charisma, Insight and Luck. (I think that's it) You can hire…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game mechanics are as you would expect from a trading simulator: You can negotiate the price for both selling and buying, allowing you as player to make some great deals from the items in your pawn shop! The problem with this game is the risk of it getting repetitive, since there's nothing else to manage, other than the price negotiation between the products being offered or sold to the customers. There's no way to manage your store, and I think this is a great part of the whole pawn shop…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Suprisingly, I really enjoyed Dealer''s life. Aty least for about 85% of my game time. Game is simple yet addictive. Idea is simple. You own pawn shop and you make your way up the ladder using "buy low - selll high" method. Customers have their own sttributes, some of them are easy to deal with, some not. You can hire staff, restore items condition to sell them higher etc. All good and enjoyable. But at the end of the game, you can see that its an Indie title for about 5 bucks. Once seven…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's crazy how such a cheap game can be so fun and addicting, 100% recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ENG The game was given via curator connect. If you want to see more of our reviews, subscribe: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32623253-True-Reviews-English-Edition/] True Reviews English Edition Gameplay: Dealer’s Life offers the simplified version of shop management for buying and selling various rarities. Starting from a small shop with a few visitors per day, you can grow to a large antique shop. Along the way, you will come across trials in the form of a competitor, the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love tycoon games and this one seemed interesting to me. I bought it and was instantly hooked on it! It's a lot of fun! The devs are doing updates on it and still improving it but, regardless of that I love it and play it a lot and enjoy it every time I do :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to address something before I begin. Despite being a recommended review, this will not be positive. To explain why, it is simply that I am looking at it from the perspective of someone that 100% completed the game. The recommendation is for people that DO NOT want to do that. This game is very fun if you don't want completion. If you DO want completion, this game goes from good to absolutely AWFUL and you should stay far away. I have to focus on just the issues, so I'm sorry if things…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of our first game launches today at @secretsaucegg.bsky.social as we help @abyteent.bsky.social bring Dealer's Life Legend into Early Access on Steam! Been a pleasure working with the team over the past couple of months and now the journey to 1.0 begins 🎉
unlabelledView post →pretty boring for a tycoon game. didn't enjoy myself. liked the concept but it just wasn't fleshed out enough for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great time killer
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I typed 12 instead of 12.000.000
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You think to bought this game think twice.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent game, gets repetitive after a while. Crashes on launch 80% of time. Developer is cocky AF.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very entertaining for an hour or two to pass the time but has you wanting to come back to advance further in the game, would recommend, bargain price for what you get. if you are into management games then you will like this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow! Big thumbs up for this one. A problem with a lot of economic sim games is that buying and selling becomes a chore. This game avoids this brilliantly; trading stock is quick, simple and utilises your character skill progression, visual clues and a random element to keep it interesting and varied. Important because you will be doing this a lot in the game-play loop. I was a little resistant to the art style initially, but the scuffed 80’s retro vibe actually suits the feel of game. The game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a strange stuff, but I like it so much.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This sweet game is very funny and adicting. Start playing and you´ll have a hard time stopping. The developer team spent a lot of time in small jokes wich sometimes need a bit to understand it. Like the "newspaper fakeline" most intelligent person discovered. Its from one of my alltime most fafourite movies. I had to laugh very hard. I´d say: good invested money and could be more expensive! Its worth it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is good. towards the ending the game kinda gets boring because of buying/selling 50$ items
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/5 Very inventive gameplay with a great “Pawn Stars” type theme. Worth checking out, but doesn’t take long to become repetitive.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was an enjoyable game. It got a little repetitive, but was good for zoning out sometimes. I enjoyed spotting all the pop culture references. I don't know that I'd go for the multi-playthrough achievements, but maybe I'll come back to it someday.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was fun for while it lasted, would pick up on sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tüccar simülatör , hemde espritüel :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYoFhvr9Lw
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dealer's Life is a lite/casual pawn shop simulator (without pawning part, you just buy and sell). PROS: + If you are a fan of tv shows like Pawn Stars etc. its a go. + Not many competition in the market on this genre. + Fun. + Easy to pick up and play. + Enough content for the price. CONS: - Real items with real names could have been better and educative. - Repetitive gameplay after a while. - No modding as of now. Please let community mod this game, it will do tons of good to the content.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Funny and addictive game. Wanna be a millionaire. Very good mechanics and quite well balanced.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →review in video form: https://youtu.be/5AAowFdAbeE written review: As we know, Steam is testing a new recommendation system and I decided to use it, in using it I ended up on this game - Dealer's Life. Dealer's Life is a small 6£ game that deals with running a pawn shop. You must deal with the mafia, the counterfeits, a competing pawn shop, you have to increase your skills and move to better and better shops, while also still managing to manage your expenses. In case you run out of money, the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are not talking to yourself as your customers are alive in under 40 minutes, you are doing something wrong. Buy things cheaper than they should be, and if they won't agree to the price get mad at them and flip them off. Sell things at unreasonably high prices, and if they won't agree to it, get mad at them and flip them off. Create fake items and report other fake items to the police. Buy a broken shotgun for 50$ then try selling it for 500, that'll work.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very entertaining and developers continue updating consistently. I loved the negotiation engine.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice little game...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game. Been quite a while since I found a game I couldn't put down. I don't think it's something you'll want to spend a million hours on as I don't think there's a ton of replay value, but if you like this type of game you'll love it. Can't go wrong for the price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play this game mostly when I feel I am bored to death and it may sound like a rubbish excuse but lately this game has been my favorite game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Master piece if you are feeling extremely boring. I hope you can live a less boring life.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In all it's simplicity, Dealer's Life is surprisingly addictive. For 7 €, I recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Police come to my store and give me a free item they found - Customer wants to buy it and turns out it's a counterfeit item - Customer reports me to the police and my store reputation goes down Would rate the game 10/10 realistic shady police
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like Chic-fil-a, crack and game of thrones. Highly addictive. Slightly st00pid. Good fun and no microscams.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is very entertaining. You basically haggle with people as the owner of a pawn shop, and rise the ranks until you have built a pawn empire. It took me about 30 hours to beat the game and I had a great time. There is some strategy involved and it's not purely arbitrary, and you can choose to be good or evil (forging items or not). I would definitely recommend this game at this price. There are a lot of references to other great games in it too, which I found amusing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🔔 Attention Content Creators 🔔 Dealer's Life Legend 1.0 launches on July 22nd, and we're hosting an EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW! Fill out this sign-up form, and we will grant you EARLY ACCESS to the game 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
unlabelledView post →Sitting down to write my review for @abyteent.bsky.social Dealer's Life Legend. It's a different sort of game that I'm really glad exists. One of the things I really liked was creating different characters each time in the character creator. Meet Willow! Full review soon
unlabelledView post →Not a very good game, interesting for some minutes but becomes repetitive (and hard) fairly quickly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dealer's Life Is Just Like Your Own Pawn Shop (WITHOUT pawning part, you just buy and sell). PROS: + If you enjoys tv shows like Pawn Stars etc. its a go. + Not many competition in the market on this genre. + Fun. + Easy to pick up and play. + Enough content for the price. CONS: - Repetitive gameplay after a while. - No modding. 7/10 Its fun and implemented nicely. I would love a little more variety, mby add so we can go buy storage lockers on the weekends or something like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game. I'll sell it to you for $19800.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't actually know why I'm so addicted to this game. It's relatively simple. Buy items, sell items. Not a ton changes in the game but there's something exhilarating buying those high priced items and resellling them. If you're looking for something super fast-paced then this probably isn't the game for you but it's a fun, relaxing, casual game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute game but.. expensive for what it offers.. get it on sale when under 4 bucks. https://youtu.be/bLvCcXELH08
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having so much fun with this game! Adding more items and descriptions can really make it an endless experience! Suggestions of things to add in the game for a more vivid experience: - Special clients that rarely come in wanting a certain quality item, or rarity or price range, and if you can provide it they give you something extra. - Challenges that can show up in the papers which you can accept, perhaps to meet x amount of sales in a week? Sell x amount of rarity items in x time? Buy x…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just barely beat this game. It was so fun to play and so addicting, and there is nothing like it around. If there is... please message me because I need more games like this. I would gladly play more than 10 Dollars for this with having got 63 hours of game time out of it. I usually say 1 dollar per hour I play on it, but geez... Love this game, has tons of replay value! And I will be following the team if it's possible. <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple game with simple mechanics. No fancy stuff, yet pretty enjobalye. Definitely would recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazingly addictive, but every time I play I can't shut off hearing Rick from Pawn Stars in my head
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a really simple, yet fun business management game
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