Trash Goblin

"Trash Goblin" is part bubble-wrap popping mobile app type puzzle-lite and part "Power Wash" style cleaning game and part business tycoon... this is an unusual mix but it could work if done right. The idea is that you're a little goblin that lives downstairs and you chip away at blocks to reveal trinkets, clean and polish them and then sell them for gold to upgrade your cleaning stuff and sleeping environment. Okay. The game is modestly well polished and appears well, despite the somewhat simplistic mobile tier graphics. There's a lot of clicking through text dialogues that was incredibly annoying, and then once you get into the two minigames that form the backbone of this, you get bored immediately. This is the kind of game that probably would have done well on mobile, but the developers seem to have missed their target audience. Why make thousands of dollars when you could make hundreds? The biggest insult, however, is the truly offensive pricing... more on that later. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to se…

You know how when there is daunting work to be done we procrastinate and play games instead? This game is so grindy and pointless and daunting that I felt like going to work. At first it looked cute. Sure the obtaining of pieces was annoying from the getgo, but I thought it will get better, like other games, you upgrade your tools, you automate things... Well, that did not happen. ~27 hours in, day 200+th I still spend most of my time bashing squares from pieces of trash. This game made me think, maybe it would be a nice feature if our goblin could lobotomize itself with the chisel. Honestly, there is no thought put in the game loop. It is absolutely horrendous. Its like the devs making you eat dirt and then laugh in your face and then push a 100 DLCs in your face and tell you you will like it. This is clearly a cashgrab. The only way this game could have been worse was if it did not function at all. Then again, maybe that would actually improve it. For those who enjoy becoming braindead, there is also bugs. Items poofing, items duplicating, icons becoming unresponsive, icons working but items becoming unresponsive etc. I verified file integrity and reinstalled whatever had…

Started playing for the cozy vibes. Continue playing for the plot. A no stakes, chill game you can easely progress in your own pace.

Adorable game with very very addicting chiseling and upcycling mechanics. I had a ton of fun with this and loved every single character, everyone was so beautifully drawn and full of life! I also really loved Aimon's story and really appreciated their character's existence in general, as a nonbinary person myself. NOTE: I played most of it while offline! My total play hours were 22.6hrs, but if you play a game offline, then it doesn't record the time properly for reviews!

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Peak Game, Addicting... Trash... Hoarding... Help... I can't get enough storage for all the items I want to keep T-T The cleaning mechanics are alright but my favorite part has to be chiseling the items and combining em together. My next purchase shall be the paint brushes! Cute interactions with characters like your aunty and the lizard addicted to bed pans. Come get ya trinkets!