Probably Stolen climbs to No. 12 on Steam as new reviews drop to 40% positive

Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim reached 12th place in Steam's most played chart on November 9, with a daily peak of 167,948 concurrent players, up from 22nd a week earlier. At the same time its reviews are arriving fast and skewing negative: 9,007 new reviews came in over 42 hours, 3.6 times the earlier pace, and only 40% of them are positive.

The shopkeeping sim from Questing Goose Studio, published by tinyBuild, launched on October 28. On November 10 at 11:41 UTC it had 129,454 players, eighth on Steam by current players. According to SteamDB, its all-time peak of 186,095 concurrent players fell on November 8.

A hotfix, a big update and a roadmap

The most recent official post is the "100-Rev13 Hotfix" of November 8. It restored the previous Chinese translations of names, items, dialogue and UI text and fixed a bug where items in Lou's locker were miscounted, which got the player bombed; the fix also applies to existing saves. The post also announces a major modding security update that will be fully merged on December 10, and asks modders to update their mods before then. An earlier modding security update on October 31 already warned that some mods may break.

The larger content change came on November 6 with Cumulative Update 1.0.0.12. Players can now shoot most storyline characters to end their story on the spot, with Security treating most of these shootings as manslaughter. Lou's storyline gets more choices, including a Republic operative who lets players work against her, and Serpico and Eleanor gain new ways to help them. New options include a dialogue bubble size setting and "Disable Pop Culture Characters".

The same day the studio celebrated "1 MILLION Shopkeepers" and published a roadmap. November is reserved for bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements, bigger updates are planned for January and April, and the roadmap covers the next six months. The developer writes: "Every update on this roadmap will be free."

How players are reacting

The overall Steam rating stands at 71% positive across 24,986 reviews, which Steam labels "Mostly Positive". English-language reviews paint a different picture: the store page lists 95% of 4,223 English reviews as positive.

Several of the top-rated negative reviews on Steam target a rollback. One says the developer "rolled back the entire game removing content and reintroducing bugs" instead of just changing the text in the next update; another player says they have requested a refund. In the Steam forum, players have opened threads reconstructing a dispute over the game's Chinese text. One forum user says they have seen posts encouraging others to request refunds and leave negative reviews, while another writes: "This was handled poorly, but the dev still has my grace".

The launch itself went well by the press account. 80.lv reported that the game sold 200,000 copies within hours, passed 80,000 concurrent players within 90 minutes and ranked second in Global Top Sellers. tinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik wrote that "200k copies in the first few hours is nuts". According to tinyBuild, the demo drew more than 660,000 players and the game collected more than 500,000 wishlists before release.

In terms of play, it sits near Shipping Store Simulator 2037, which shares its Shop Keeper and Management tags, and Pawn Planet: First Sales, another trading-focused management sim. Ostranauts shares its Trading and Cyberpunk tags.

For anyone deciding now: the 10% launch discount ends November 11, bringing the price to $17.99 instead of $19.99. The developer is still patching the game and says November is about fixes, with free content updates following in January and April. Players who use mods should expect changes before December 10.