StrategyFit check
Is Garbage worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want automatic fights with preparation and team-building decisions
- Strategy fans who prefer camp construction and resource scarcity over direct combat control
- Players interested in darkly humorous survival stories with exploration and branching events
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking direct, moment-to-moment control during fights
- Players who prefer a focused combat game without camp needs, construction, and inventory management
- Players looking for a conventional heroic fantasy setting
Our take on Garbage
The pre-fight combat design gives preparation and team composition more weight, but removes direct control from the battles themselves. Survival also requires attention across construction, workers, resources, weather, personal care, and exploration rather than a single focused system.
What is Garbage?
Garbage combines automatic fighting with camp management and construction.
Preparations happen before each fight, with hundreds of skills to combine into coordinated teams. The camp includes buildings, upgrades, workers, and needs such as food, hygiene, training, and warmth. Weather changes with day, night, and seasons, affecting survival. An inventory contains hundreds of items for equipping, crafting, consuming, and trading. The city has 5 districts and over 30 areas to explore, alongside gangs, arenas, legal and illegal events, story choices, and randomly generated encounters. Hand-drawn comics, unusual character voices, music, and a grim city setting frame the survival systems.
How Garbage plays
- 01Automatic combat
- Fighters use prearranged preparations, with hundreds of skills available for team building.
- 02Camp construction
- Buildings and upgrades support survival while limited garbage resources require prioritizing necessities.
- 03Changing weather
- Day, night, and seasonal conditions can affect survival positively or negatively.
- 04Item management
- Hundreds of items can be equipped, crafted, consumed, or traded for garbage.
- 05City exploration
- Five districts contain over 30 areas to occupy and explore.
- 06Random events
- Alleys and hidden locations contain encounters with unknown outcomes.
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Garbage: platforms & release
Is Garbage worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want automatic fights with preparation and team-building decisions. Skip it if: players seeking direct, moment-to-moment control during fights.
Where can I download Garbage?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Garbage's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Garbage on?
Windows and macOS.
