Probably Stolen: all endings and how to trigger them

Read the career and ending separately

Rat Wrangler is a starting career. On the results screen, the large heading names your career; the smaller line below names the ending. A Rat Wrangler run can reach Buyout, Bombed or another result. Raising rats does not unlock a separate Rat Wrangler ending.

The current 1.0 release has 16 reachable ending results, displayed under 13 titles: two successful ownership results and 14 failures. Cash and mortgage victories share the Buyout title. Three different explosions share Bombed. NPC story outcomes are listed separately at the bottom.

Complete ending list

Only the two Buyout results offer Continue, returning you to the shop. Every failure below ends that run.

Result	Trigger	Continue?
Buyout, cash	Pay the landlord’s full purchase price and finish the purchase dialogue.	Yes
Buyout, mortgage	Pay the final weekly mortgage instalment and finish receiving the deed.	Yes
You Defaulted On Your Rent	Refuse the rent without an unused rent-grace favour.	No
Repossession	Miss a mortgage instalment without enough eligible goods to repossess.	No
Arrested	A sufficiently supported case reaches the arrest tier, an unaffordable fine leads to arrest, or a serious contraband inspection ends in arrest.	No
Executed	Security judges a case with crime value at least 1,500.	No
Lynched	Lower Level reputation is −100 or lower when you open.	No
Framed	Security reputation is −100 or lower when you open.	No
Assassinated	Upper Level reputation is −100 or lower when you open.	No
Bombed, revolution	Revolutionary reputation is −100 or lower when you open.	No
Bombed, Lou’s box	Lou collects her box after you have taken an original item or lost the box.	No
Bombed, Lou’s debt	Settle below half the difficulty-based demand, hand over an underfilled locker without a transmitter, or miss its three-night deadline.	No
Retired	Cartel reputation reaches −100, or a weekly delivery meets an immediate-failure condition.	No
Sentinel Collapse	Untreated Sentinel Collapse accumulates 20 deterioration points overnight.	No
Augmented	Aug presence reaches 100% and the difficulty or Aug Menace trait enables this ending; checked next morning.	No
Meltdown	A Makeshift Reactor reaches zero integrity overnight; the explosion resolves next morning.	No

Buy the shop: the two successful routes

Cash: keep the full asking price as cash, wait for the landlord’s weekly rent visit, choose to buy and finish the dialogue to receive the deed. Merely holding enough money does not trigger a result. On Normal, the price is 12,000 through day 50; it then rises by 50 per day to a cap of 17,000. You can buy before day 50.

Mortgage: take the lender’s offer, make the down payment and pay every weekly instalment. The down payment starts the loan; the ending comes after the last payment and deed dialogue. Normal requires 12 weekly payments, Cozy 8, Hard and Challenge 16. The initial lender introduction requires the down payment in cash; the subsequent offer requires twice that amount on hand. Permanently refusing the offer closes this route.

Both results let you continue operating as the owner. Use the rent, permit and shop-purchase guide for difficulty-specific prices, instalments and the increasing purchase price.

Rent default and repossession

Rent comes due on days 7, 14, 21 and so on. To trigger You Defaulted On Your Rent, refuse payment when no rent-grace favour remains, then finish the dialogue. A grace favour lets you delay instead: Cozy and Normal start with one, Hard and Challenge with none. Goods in storage do not substitute for rent cash.

For Repossession, take a mortgage and miss a weekly payment. If enough eligible ordinary goods remain, the lender seizes them and returns seven days later; this does not reduce the remaining instalment count. If their combined value cannot cover the weekly bill, the shop is repossessed. Locked goods, documents, machines, important items and goods hidden in the smuggler bay do not all count as available collateral.

Arrest and execution

A normal criminal investigation dispatches an officer at 100 investigation progress. When the officer arrives, progress must still be at least 95 and recorded crime must be positive for the case to proceed. The total crime value then sets the punishment:

Crime value	Case outcome
Below 300	Fine; being unable to pay can lead to Arrested.
300 to below 1,500	Arrested
1,500 or more	Executed

Crime value is neither your cash nor faction reputation. High or extreme contraband found during an inspection can also lead directly to arrest; an available Security grace can change the inspection outcome. This does not make every serious inspection an execution. See crime and hiding and Security inspections for avoiding these routes.

Five faction endings

Bring a listed faction to −100 or lower, then open the shop. Lower Level sends the lynching party, Security frames you, Upper Level sends the assassin, the revolution bombs the shop, and the Cartel retires you. Complete the visitor’s dialogue where one appears. Security’s Framed result is a reputation punishment; it does not require a proven criminal case.

The Black Market has no equivalent −100 ending in this set. Its reputation and the Cartel’s reputation are separate. The faction reputation guide explains actions and recovery.

The Cartel also retires you immediately for delivering zero Dreamdust on the weekly collection, or for delivering a nonzero batch whose average purity is at most one quarter of the required purity, rounded down. If 70% is required, 17% or below is fatal. A short delivery or lesser purity above that floor can cost reputation without immediately ending the run. The Chemist start explains entering this business.

Lou: toy-box and debt explosions

Lou can arrive after the business permit when you are short of cash, or after 14 eligible days. Reporting her starts the fake-bomb and toy-box sequence. Collection is the day after drop-off. A box with a missing original item, or a lost box, causes the toy-box Bombed result. Opening it alone is safe.

If the original sequence continues, a disguise visit follows four days after collection and debt collection seven days after that. The full demands on Cozy/Normal/Hard/Challenge are 500/750/1,000/1,500, and the minimum accepted goods plus cash needed to avoid the debt bomb are 250/375/500/750. Reaching that minimum survives; settling below it ends the run.

Shooting Lou wounds her and starts a separate locker demand. Three days later, fill the locker to that difficulty’s minimum and leave it directly on the front counter within three nights, or hide the Republic transmitter inside it for capture. An underfilled hand-in or an expired deadline also produces the debt-bomb result. These reuse the existing Bombed ending, rather than adding another results title.

For a capture without shooting, hide the transmitter inside her toy box before collection. The early fake bomb remains harmless. The Lou guide gives the operative, gift choices, counter-reveal branch and full handover steps.

Sentinel, Augs and the reactor

Sentinel Collapse

Start with Sentinel Collapse Disorder and stop taking Immunivax Injector. The sixth missed night warns you; nights 7–9 add one deterioration point each, nights 10–13 add two, and night 14 onward adds three. Reaching 20 ends the run. From zero accumulated damage and a reset injection timer, this takes 16 untreated nights.

Genuine Immunivax resets the missed-injection timer, not accumulated deterioration. Expired or counterfeit doses do not give the same full reset. Ordinary alcohol or narcotic withdrawal does not trigger this ending. See addiction and starting traits.

The Nightly Report also describes existing permanent damage. At high damage it warns that another overdue injection can be fatal; this predicts the next missed dose, not necessarily the next calendar night. With no previous damage, the usual sixth-night reminder still precedes damage starting on night seven.

Augmented

Let Aug presence reach 100% and proceed to the next morning. Hard and Challenge enable the terminal outcome by default. Cozy and Normal do not, unless the Aug Menace trait enables it. Letting Aug visitors leave alive raises presence; correctly killing Augs lowers it. The Aug guide explains identification before shooting.

Meltdown

Take Makeshift Reactor and leave its Makeshift Micro Nuclear Reactor unrepaired until integrity reaches zero overnight. The explosion ends the run next morning. A fresh 100-integrity reactor with no upgrades loses 18 per night, reaching zero on the sixth night. It keeps deteriorating even after low integrity stops its power output.

Scrap Metal repairs 60 integrity without reducing the maximum. Junk repairs 30 but reduces maximum integrity by 5. Each Electronics upgrade reduces nightly decay by one; 18 upgrades stop it. Keep the reactor repaired if you want to continue. See the Makeshift Reactor trait.

No Permit is not a separate collectible route

The current release does not directly end the run with No Permit when you refuse the business permit. Repeated refusals add operating-without-a-licence crime, which can lead into the Security punishments above. Use the permit guide to arrange payment. Do not count No Permit as a seventeenth reachable result.

Character story outcomes keep the shop running

These stories have their own endings and rewards while the player keeps trading. They do not add another player results screen to the list above.

Story	Important branch	Full steps
Eleanor	Help with free food or 50 credits; an arrest can be reversed two days later with 500 credits or Security reputation 40. Her data-disk choice still determines her mother’s fate.	Eleanor
Serpico	Deliver 2,000 kcal from night 48; each day of partial food extends the deadline one night. Georgio can deliver for 150 credits or free at Lower Level reputation 40. Choose the evidence route afterwards.	Serpico
Officer Lun	Selling her drugs and weapons, or reporting her, changes her later visits.	Officer Lun

For the complete Steam checklist and the exact unlock actions, see the 21-achievement guide.