Gameplay

There are many gameplay features in Drug Dealer Simulator. Details are provided on their corresponding pages.

### Clients

Clients are people who order drugs from you. Each client has quality expectations along with toxicity and addiction thresholds. Cutting too much or adding too much may end up causing them to OD, complain, or leave.

### Addicts

Addicts are gained through either time or mixing. Addicts order more and can be given a poorer quality of the drug they requested.

#### Dealers

Dealers tend to order a lot more but won't pay you right away, and you'll have to wait a bit to retrieve the money from them.

### Decorating

Decorating can be used to make your hideouts or villas look nicer while providing a boost and adding to the time skip multipler.

### Difficulty

There are three difficulties, each either making the game harder or easier. From easiest to hardest, there are Help Me Mommy, Pass the Bong, and Plato O Plomo.

### Drugs

The main feature of the game. The basics of it is that you buy drugs from the cartel, distribute those to the ghetto, rinse and repeat.

#### Eddie

Your main source of quests and drugs, buy drugs from him using Shadycomm.

#### Labs

You unlock it shortly after starting Endgame, which allows you to produce or import your own drugs for less without having to go through Eddie.

#### Mixing

Mixing is used to prevent or cause ODs, drag out supplies, and increase the profit of your drugs.

### Exposition

Exposition, or expo, is a reflection of your criminal activity; the higher your exposition, the more police and DEA raids will happen. Expo is based on a three-day average; things like police chases, arrests, sales, etc. affect Expo. Doing sales at night reduces exposition.

### Gangs

There are three gangs in Drug Dealer Simulator. Keiji and Ballena are mutually exclusive. So the player will always get psychedelics + Keiji, or Ballena.

#### Keiji's Gang

Often referred to as the Meth Gang, because, well, you supply them with meth to export beyond the Ghetto. This gang is unlocked by having high exposition when contacted by Eddie between levels 20 to 26. This is also the only way to unlock Bad Asia.

#### La Ballena's Gang

Often referred to as the Coke Gang, this gang's primary focus is on exporting Coke beyond the Ghetto. It unlocks through having low exposition when contacted by Eddie between levels 20 to 26.

#### Psychedelics gang

Unlocked through a series of quests that become available at level 17, the Psychedelics Gang offers the player three new drugs to order: LSD, mushrooms, and DMT. They also give the player the ability to bulk sell weed, although for a low price ($4/g).

### Leveling

Leveling unlocks a series of things. Some of them are new features and areas as well as receiving Skill Points to put into skills that can give you more storage, more stamina, make you run faster, less likely to be seen or searched, a chance for cops to ignore drugs when searched, more sales and higher prices, and more XP and Skill Points.

### Lockpicking

Lockpicking can be used to access shortcuts, hide from the police, or recover stuff after a DEA raid. To lockpick, you need bobby pins, but not all doors can be lockpicked.

### Looting

Looting can be used to acquire items like cash, spray paint, (Bugged 0g) drug packets, bobbypins, bottles, and backpacks. There are specific spots on the map where these items have a chance of spawning.

#### Trash Digging

Trashes in the game are filled up throughout the day and emptied when police hours end. Inside the trash, you can find valuables that can only be sold through money laundering. You can also find a few items like spray paint and water bottles.

### Money Laundering

Money laundering allows players to filter their cash into clean money available to buy things like equipment, furniture, and hideouts. Money laundering is unlocked after depositing $2500 into the ATM and then gaining $1000 in profit.

### Parkour

A mostly unintended feature. Basic Parkour (intended) can be used to climb over fences for shortcuts or to avoid police. More advanced parkour (unintended) can be used to avoid and outmaneuver police, traverse the ghetto safely, and even travel freely between sectors.

### Police

Police are the main obstacle in the game, encouraging the player to use stealth; otherwise, be ready to run.

#### Arrested

Getting caught by police will lead to you being arrested and having any drugs on you removed, along with your backpack if you are on Plato O Plomo. The player can get arrested for getting caught during police hours, getting into a chase, or getting searched with drugs on them.

Dealers can also get arrested; the higher your expo, the more likely this will happen. Sometimes you can post dealers out on bail through payment through the player's bank account.

#### Blockades

Blockades are spawned randomly onto set spawnpoints consisting of a police car and two officers. The chance of these spawning is based off difficulty, expo, and player level.

#### Cameras

Cameras are either on at night or are in trespassing areas, like construction sites. If the player stays in a camera too long, it will set off an alarm, spawn, and alert nearby police patrols that will chase you.

#### Checkpoints

Checkpoints are set points across the map, from sector to sector. Upon passing a checkpoint, you get searched by an officer for any illegal drugs. To avoid getting caught with drugs, the player can throw their backpack over the wall. Depending on the size of the bag, you may need to jump or jump off of something to get it over. You can also use sewers or parkour to avoid these checkpoints and, in turn, getting searched.

##### Smuggling

Smuggling is one of a few other ways to get drugs into Sector C, as there is no way to park or throw a bag past the Sector C checkpoint. So it is essential to use another method. Using the smugglers or laundry shop, you can send drugs directly to the other side of the wall in the local shop.

#### DEA

The DEA will cause trouble when your exposition is higher than 40%; the higher, the more likely they are to set up DEA SUVs and vans and launch raids on your hideouts.

#### Patrols

Patrols consist of two police officers and are on set paths around the ghetto. The number of patrols depends on things like your difficulty and expo. Patrols will often search the player based on a few variables and arrest them if it is during police hours, if they get into a chase, or if the player has illegal drugs on them.

### Respect

Respect allows the player to unlock new areas, get better clients, make faster orders, sell at a higher price, and do a few other things. Respect can be seen paced on the area in shadycomm and will decay over time. Respect is earned in a few ways, like spray painting, samples, and sales. Respect can be boosted, or decay can also be slowed down by hideouts and villas.

### Weed Growing

Weed growing is a great way to make a profit, whether by selling to clients or to the Psychedelics gang. Upon unlocking weed growing, you can meet up with Barney, who will sell you seeds for you to plant, water, and grow your own bush.