Scrapping Simulator
DefectGaming · 2020 · Colorful, Casual, Adventure, Resource Management, Management
PC
Very Positive91% · 57
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About Scrapping Simulator
⚙️ Scrapping Simulator
A low-poly first-person simulator set in a stylised Australian take on the global e-waste crisis.🧍 Step into the steel-capped boots of an Aussie E-Waste Scrapper!Hunt down discarded electronics, dismantle them piece-by-piece, and recover valuable materials like Copper, Silver, and Gold. Flip quick profits at the Scrap Yard, hold your stock for market spikes, or slowly build your scrapping empire through smart investments and careful planning.
Each playthrough is shaped by dynamic, RNG-driven systems. Weather conditions influence solar power efficiency. Daily discarded items vary. PCs, Servers, and Laptops can contain hundreds of possible component combinations depending on their RAM and hardware configurations. Market prices fluctuate — and above all, your decisions determine the outcome.
After the tutorial, you're on your own. There are no level-to-item lockouts, no forced progression paths, and no hand-holding. Guidance comes primarily through in-game descriptions — ignoring them or rushing decisions can be costly.
There is no “Game Over” screen — but poor investments, unpaid utility bills, inefficient upgrade paths, or reckless spending can leave you struggling to recover. Read carefully. Plan ahead. Choose wisely. Your success (or hardship) is entirely yours to shape.
🛠️ Features
🔍 Scavenge & Salvage
Head out early each morning to secure the best finds before rival scrappers beat you to them. Not all junk is worth your time — learning what to take (and what to leave behind) is part of the strategy.
📈 Watch the Market
Track fluctuating prices on your in-game PC. Sell refined metals at the Scrap Yard, or offload low-tier electronics at the Pawn Shop to free up time and storage for higher-value targets. Timing and focus directly impact your profits.
🔥 Smelt & Refine
Reinvest your earnings into a Furnace Set, Crucible, and Ingot Moulds to forge high-value Ingots. Upgrade further with a Chemical Set to extract pure Gold and Silver for premium returns.
🛒 Upgrade Your Tools
Visit the Hardware Store to unlock better tools, solar panels to reduce utility costs, improved item transport options, expanded storage, and other efficiency-focused upgrades. Spend wisely — not every upgrade provides immediate returns.
💪 Level Up & Unlock Perks
Earn XP in Disassembling, Trading, and Scavenging to gain perk points across three distinct skill trees. Specialise your playstyle and refine your strategy to maximise productivity and long-term profit.
🧩 E-Waste You’ll Deconstruct:
- LCD & CRT TVs
- Personal Computers & Laptops
- Microwaves & DVD Players
- Game Consoles
- Servers, Routers & HDDs
- GPUs, RAM (2–32GB DDR3/DDR4) & Power Supplies
- …and many more to come!
🔩 Internal Parts Include:
- CPUs, IC Chips, BGA Chips
- Capacitors, Transformers, Crystal Oscillators
- Power Boards, Motherboards, CD Drives
- Screws, Heat Sinks, Network Cards
- Each component yields unique materials inspired by its real-world counterpart.
Side Missions & Energy Management
Take on optional jobs from Scrapper Joe for extra cash. Need to push through a long day? Grab a coffee from Kaz at “Feen 4 Caffeine” to restore energy and keep working.
Efficiency matters. Hoarding every item you find will eventually slow you down. Sometimes it's smarter to pawn off low-value electronics and focus on high-yield systems like PCs, laptops, and servers. Managing time, storage, and workload is just as important as dismantling itself.
🧠 Developer’s Note:
Scrapping Simulator is a stylised exaggeration of today’s throwaway culture. It’s about uncovering value in the forgotten. Where some see trash on the curb, others see opportunity — raw materials waiting to be reclaimed.
This is a simulator built on freedom, consequence, and discovery. There is no single “correct” path — only the one you carve out for yourself.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Pretty enjoyable game - you walk around small town, collect electronics people dump daily (you can go through trash too if you want more), then disassemble it for raw materials (total of 7 categories), which you then sell. There are a few types of electronics - from common household objects like TV or mircowave to servers. Some of them are composed of subcomponents - eg.: disassembling a PC gives you some materials, but also PSU or hard drives for further disassembly. Overall, there are enough items to provide some variety, but few enough that they start repeating fairly quickly (though I don't think there are many more types that can be added). As for progression, you earn experience by collecting and disassembling items, which you can spend on skills - increasing material yields, more backpack space, more items spawning etc. Money can be spent on gear and equipment - wheelbarrow that will allow you to pick up more items per trip, smelting equipment to make bars, chemical equipment to get gold and silver from scrap and so on. So progression is there, but i got all the stuff within few hours of gameplay. Limitations? There is stamina which limits how much you can do per day (but y…2 found this helpful
i love the game but i with you could buy more buckets1 found this helpful
bug after bug making things vanish it took so long to get to making ingots i make one go to put my ingot in my wheelbearel to transport that and my waste at the same time and bye bye to my ingot gone just vanished what is the point in the lost and found box if nothing that glitches out ever gets moved to that dumb box every single missing item I lost up to that point never showed up in that box pointless ... don't get the game unless you want to feel pure rage from hard work not being rewarded but spat upon because the developers can't be bothered to fix bugs no just release make money and who cares about your experience
TLDR: - Wishlist if you want a finished game - Buy if you don't mind waiting and want to support the developer Promising game, really looking forward to it. Gameplay was smooth, did not notice any bug either. Currently (as of v0.41) the game clearly is not finished, which is to be expected of an Early Access game after all. The core gameplay loop and the progression is there and works pretty well. If I had to complain about something it would be this: - Decent variety of devices to disassemble, but since it is the core part it needs to be expanded. In the best case users could get the option to create mods. - The map is kind of small, but it is obvious it is meant to grow - Recycleable trash items that drop from dumpster-diving are very lacking, finding multiple keys and locks in every other trashcan makes no sense and it feels redundant (maybe trash in industrial areas being different to residential areas etc.). On the plus side this should be trivial to fix and does not really matter that much
Fun little things. Lots of updates, recently.
i like it alot cant wait for more things to do
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