Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

A pawnshop, a debt and a man called Mr. Grin

Your late uncle left you his pawnshop. He also left you his debt. Every five days Mr. Grin, a loan shark with a very wide smile, comes to collect. Come up short and he takes all your cash and a finger. The third time, he takes your heart.

Build a money machine out of junk

Every morning, customers bring something to sell: a pearl, a radio, a haunted doll, a monkey's paw. Buy one, then arrange your shelf. At closing time every item pays out, and the eight items around it change what it pays. A Mirror copies its left neighbour, Duct Tape protects everything it touches, a Chainsaw smashes the neighbours. Find the combos and watch a shelf of junk turn into a money machine.

• 150 items across 7 kinds of stock: jewels, tech, antiques, junk, music, tools, and cursed goods that pay a lot and hurt you.
  
• Merge duplicates into Mint, Museum Piece, Legendary and Mythic editions.
  
• Things happen at night: items smash, melt, grow, spawn and transform.
  
• Every item shows what it will pay tonight before you close, so every move is a real decision.

Strange visitors

Once a week someone comes in before opening: a widow with an estate sale, a crooked cop who wants a bribe, Mr. Grin's goon asking for a "tip", a TV crew, your uncle's ghost, a stray cat. Each deal has a price. And now and then a customer is not quite what they seem: a cat burglar, an alien in disguise, a mummy, a raccoon in a trench coat.

Side jobs, pocket tricks and the rival across the street

After every payday, Mr. Grin offers two side jobs for the week ahead. Pull one off and he knocks money off your next bill, pays cash or slips you a pocket trick: a polishing rag, a felt-tip pen that "signs" anything, strong coffee for a big night, bubble wrap, a lucky penny. You have two pockets and each trick works once, so timing is everything.

• RIVALS: every payday, your night goes head to head with another player's shop from the same week. Win and your night pays more. Lose and your customers walk across the street. If a Steam friend played that week, you face their shop.
  
• Clear the debt and every item on your shelf earns that debt level's sticker. 1,490 to collect.

Pay it off, then keep going

• Eight uncles, eight shops: each starts with different stock and a perk that changes how you play.
  
• Ten debt levels, each with a harder rule, and eight challenge runs with one twisted rule each.
  
• Twenty weekly twists from Mr. Grin, from a power cut to double or nothing. You see each one a week ahead.
  
• Unlock 55 more items through milestones and fill your ledger.
  
• Clear the debt and keep going in endless mode, where merges climb without limit.
  
• A run takes about 20 to 25 minutes and saves every morning.
  
• Play with mouse, keyboard or controller.

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AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Like many small studios, we used AI tools to make Pawnbroke's pixel art and store images; most sprites were built pixel by pixel on the game's own grid rather than generated as images. We wrote the English text ourselves and improved it with AI tools; the translations were made with AI. Music and sound effects come from human composers and licensed sound libraries. Screenshots and trailers show real gameplay. No AI runs while you play.