Junkyard Builder tasks you with collecting and refurbishing scrap across multiple maps to grow your junk empire. The core loop involves gathering materials, sorting inventory, and restoring items for profit, though players report shallow content and repetitive tedium that wears thin after a few hours. This is a budget idle game best suited for very casual players seeking low-engagement collection mechanics.
About this game
In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended1 hrs
More of a college project than anything else, and criminal at this price point.
Maybe half a dozen meaningful objects, timers everywhere and a whole 20 seconds of guitar that is looped indefinitely as the 'music'. In 90 minutes I'd pretty much seen all the game had to offer.
I have played this game on mobile before and it was fun.
This PC version is like a cut version of the mobile one. After 3 hours of gameplay my junkyard is empty and there is nothing to do anymore except going to the other places just to collect 10 pieces of junk on 3 other maps.
In the mobile version all the junk piles and pieces are being reset all the time so there is always something to do.
In the PC version you just run out of junk and you run a empty junkyard. There is a trashcar that gives some parts after 1 hour but who wants to wait so long. This is a mobile game mechanic not for PC.
At this moment i cannot recommend this game. I know it is early access but it is way worse than the existing mobile version of the game.
FreeMind Games you are better than this. I have played many of your previous games and this is below your standards.
I will change my review once the game will be in a state where there is some gameplay for more than 3 hours.
I was hyped by a content creator and decided to give the game a try myself. After sinking Six hour into this game I realized.. I hated it. I booted the game up a while ago, stared at the main screen and went "No."
Refurbishing things feels too tedious, little profit, and sometimes just a pain to find things.. You go out, collect junk then run around sorting it all out just to do it again and make just a small dent in your profits for upgrades that feel WAY too expensive. That's where this game falls short, making proper profit because it still holds onto some of the tablet timer mechanics that should of been done away with when you made this game "Full PC" Your spending a lot of time just waiting for stuff to show up, waiting for bales to be finished, waiting to find the right parts.. waiting waiting waiting.. at this point I should of just saved my money all together.
👷♂️ 1.1.1 - New Update is Live🎮 Gameplay:Added item categories to the Scrap Catalog.Adjusted spawner settings to increase the spawn rate of container fragments and pallets.Accepting an offer at the Scrap Trading Post now grants 5 XP. 🛠 Bug Fixes & Improvements:Lights now automatically turn on at 9:00 PM.Fixed incorrect images appearing in Daily Events.Fixed an issue that prevented wholeselling in Mixed Containers.Improved item placement when unloading items from a forklift.
👷♂️ 1.1.0 - New Update is Live🎮 Gameplay:Added a Scrap Catalog. You can now collect items and discover them all. From now on, hovering over an item will mark it as discovered in the Scrap Catalog, allowing you to complete the full collection and unlock an additional Steam achievement.Added the ability to sell “Other” type items in the black container. 🛠 Bug Fixes & Improvements:Fixed an issue where the crane would not pull the nearest object.Fixed unwanted shaking while driving the cart.Fixed item count tracking in the warehouse. Added a text notification when placing an incorrect item into a machine.Added vehicle lights to improve visibility at night.Added control hints for tasks.Added icons to the reset panel.Added alphabetical sorting in the warehouse and market.Added a placement preview when using the crane.Improved item removal from the cart, larger items will no longer get stuck.Improved colliders for vehicle parts.Improved translations.
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