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Pubertator

Haggle, hustle, and survive at a post-Soviet flea market. Appraise scrap, talk down oddball customers, and ride a beat-up motorcycle to scavenge for loot — a dark-comedy trading sim about running your own junk stall.

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About the Game

Set up your own stall at the flea market, size up the junk people bring you, and don't let anyone pull one over on you — in Pubertator, you ARE that flinty market soul who knows the price of every rusty scrap of metal.

Customers come in all shapes — from a broke bum with three coins to his name to a collector willing to overpay for something rare. Haggle, talk the price up or down, and watch your rating — one botched negotiation and the customer storms off.

Key features:

  • Flea market economy: multiple rarity tiers of goods, buyers and sellers from a whole range of social classes — from the homeless to the collector

  • Real risk in the haggling mechanic — a failed attempt to talk down the price can cost you rating

  • A catalog packed with post-Soviet household items, each with its own ironic flavor text — from faceted glasses to Soviet-era curiosities

  • Lafa — a scrap-metal neighbor with a motorcycle, who'll trade you loot if you can survive riding his motorcycle past open manholes

  • Sonya — an antique dealer and streamer running spot 40, buying up whatever the flea market won't appraise

  • Full localization: Russian, Ukrainian, and English — with authentic surzhyk dialect in customer dialogue where it fits

No political correctness here — just cheapskate haggling, surzhyk slang, and the smell of rust.

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