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!
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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.
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👷♂️ 1.2.3 - Workers' Improvements and Bug Fixes🛠 Bug Fixes & Improvements:Added helmet colors based on each worker's assigned station:Paper Container - BluePlastic Container - YellowMetal Container - RedWood Container - BrownMixed Waste Container - GrayPaper Baler - Blue with 1 black stripe in the middlePlastic Baler - Yellow with 1 black stripe in the middleScrap Metal Baler - Red with 1 black stripe in the middleWood Shredder - Brown with 1 black stripe in the middleWaste Incinerator - Gray with 1 black stripe in the middleMetal Furnace - Red with 2 black stripesAdded an option to adjust the FOVFixed an issue where machine worker offers would not appearFixed interaction issues while selling itemsFixed an issue where no notification appeared about items being collected when accepting an offer after 10 PMFixed an issue where items could get stuck in the cartFixed an issue where container workers would collect items produced by machinesFixed an issue where workers could follow objects outside the junkyard areaFixed an issue where achievements related to sales made by workers would not progressImproved translationsFixed an issue where the player could get stuck behind the barrier strap in the scrap trading areaFixed an issue where the "Not Enough Money" message could remain visible in the upgrades panel
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