Run a basement black market pawn shop in a gritty 1990s city. Inspect questionable goods, negotiate with desperate sellers, resell through shady contacts, manage heat, survive raids, and decide whether each item is a payday, a fake, a trap, or a liability.

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About This Game

Run a shop no one admits they use

Blackwater Exchange is a 2D black market pawn shop management sim set in a gritty 1990s city.

You run a legal-looking exchange upstairs while the real business happens below: stolen watches, forged documents, suspicious electronics, cursed relics, desperate sellers, and cash changing hands before anyone asks too many questions.

Every item is a gamble

A customer comes down the stairs, drops something on the counter.

Maybe the item is real. Maybe it is fake. Maybe it is damaged, stolen, traceable, underpriced, or worse. Inspect visible clues, use tools, read the seller, and decide what the risk is worth.

Negotiate under pressure

Sellers have moods, patience, lies, and limits.

Push too hard and they may walk. Push the wrong person and they may report you. Pay too much and the day eats your profit. Every offer is a choice between margin, speed, and exposure.

Move goods before they become evidence

Buying the item is only half the job.

Store what you can, stash what you must, and sell through contacts with their own prices, risks, and availability. The right buyer can turn a dirty object into clean profit. The wrong one can leave you holding the problem.

Profit gets attention

Hot goods pay better, but they also raise heat.

Bills, raids, fines, confiscation, suspicious customers, rival pressure, and corrupt enforcement keep success from becoming safe. Legal deals keep the lights on. Dirty deals build the business. Every shortcut leaves a mark.

Features

  • 2D shopkeeper management built around appraisal, negotiation, and resale

  • Questionable goods with value, condition, authenticity, and risk uncertainty

  • Customer moods, lies, scams, walkouts, and report risk

  • Limited inventory, stash decisions, tools, upgrades, and shady contacts

  • Heat system with raids, fines, confiscation, and corrupt enforcement pressure

  • Gritty 1990s crime atmosphere

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI was used to assist with non-English interface text translations.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Blackwater Exchange contains mature crime themes. The player runs a black market pawn shop operation, buys and resells questionable goods, deals with criminal contacts, and manages heat from corrupt enforcement and raids.

The game may reference stolen property, forged documents, suspicious goods, occult items, and illegal business activity. It does not contain nudity, sexual content, graphic violence, gore, suicide, or drug use. Tobacco/alcohol may be implied through environmental details such as smoke, cigarette burns, or gritty shop atmosphere.

System Requirements

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    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 or later
    • Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz or equivalent
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics with Vulkan 1.0 support (Intel HD Graphics 510, AMD Radeon R5, or equivalent)
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10 or later
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated graphics with Vulkan 1.2 support (NVIDIA GTX 1060, AMD RX 580, or equivalent)
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 10.15+
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400, Apple M1, or equivalent
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics with Metal 3 support or Vulkan 1.0 via MoltenVK (Intel HD Graphics 510, AMD Radeon R5, Apple M1 GPU, or equivalent)
    Recommended:
    • OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur) or newer
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8500, Apple M1, or equivalent
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated graphics with Metal 3 support or Vulkan 1.2 via MoltenVK (AMD Radeon RX 460, Apple M1 GPU, or equivalent)
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 20.04+
    • Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz or equivalent
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics with Vulkan 1.0 support (Intel HD Graphics 510, AMD Radeon R5, or equivalent)
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or equivalent
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K, AMD Ryzen 5 1600, or equivalent
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated graphics with Vulkan 1.2 support (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050, AMD Radeon RX 460, or equivalent)

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