You play as an operator of a retail stall on a dystopic space station like Ceres, buying and selling various legal and illicit goods while trying to keep your business afloat against rising rent, local crime and rebel factions, and station security inspections. In-game events like water shortages or hydroponic farm breakdowns affect the price of respective items you sell and buy.

Pilfer industrial feed water, filter it, and sell it to desperate station citizens. Craft and sell narcotics and weapons. Become a fence for local stolen goods. Run guns and medicine to the local anti-establishment faction, or report their wanted members for a bounty. Raise rats for valuable meat.

Essentially, you can become the person on Ceres who was glad the Canterbury didn't make it to station, because it meant the value of the water you been hoarding just jumped two-folds.