Junkyard Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Junkyard Simulator is a simulation, sandbox and open world game developed by Rebelia Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
Released on October 13th 2021 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 1,773 reviews of which 1,121 were positive and 652 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 7.80€ on Steam with a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Junkyard Simulator into these genres:

Simulation Sandbox Open World Driving Realistic Automobile Sim Strategy Indie Physics Economy Management First-Person Early Access Exploration Building Crafting Singleplayer Funny Resource Management Villain Protagonist

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Windows

OS: Windows (64-bit) 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3,30 GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 14 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Junkyard Simulator is one of my "Don't Uninstall" games that gets hotfixes, updates, and additional features added to the game fairly often. I've never been disappointed with this game, but when I get pulled into another game from my library, Junkyard Simulator is a great fallback for causal gaming. ...and when I come back there's often a new feature added or its easier to do something in the game than when a last played a few days ago. I truly appreciate the solid dev support with programming, tweaking, and responding to feedback. This demonstrates to me that this is a Passion Project for them! For dev support and the ease of jumping back into gameplay after being away from it for a while ... I'd categorise this game alongside Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 and No Man's Sky. Hardspace Shipbreaker hasn't seen much dev activity for a while since it went 1.0 release, but otherwise I'd also put it alongside these titles. Very easy to return to and addictive while playing. After a long day at work, I don't always want an adrenaline-fueled challenge...sometimes I need an enjoyable experience and an easier win. It feels like fun instead of a grind when I'm cruising around the open world in Junkyard Simulator looking for the specific metals and materials I need to unlock my Steam Achievements as well as to make quest deliveries. It's good that you can follow the storyline guide missions as well as just doing your own thing and exploring ... while breaking stuff! Whether you like the small-scale hands-on of running around with your sledgehammer picking up salvage by hand, or medium scale of clearing out a storage locker full of random treasures & junk to scrap, or large scale where you tow & feed cars into scrap machines or can pick up with the giant electromagnet crane to dump into the compactor ... this game has a lot of ways to get you earning money in the game. The expansion (not a paid DLC ... an actual expansion they released) gives you your own scrapyard you can run and expand on your own that generates passive income while you're out doing everything else I mentioned. There's also renovating and refurbishing that can earn you collectable cars (by finding a scrap junker car and lovingly rebuilding it piece by piece) or you can increase the value of certain items for sale to collector NPCs in the game. Have fun! Give it a try ... and if it's not 100% hitting all your expectations, then just sit tight since the devs continue to work on it until it is meeting community expectations! Seriously, give it a try!

Jan. 2025

This game pretty rough around the edges, but it is continually worked on, and honestly I wouldn't expect anything less from a team of two! What you do get is a game that lets you do as you please. Want to work on cars, then do that. Want to build a scrap yard that rakes in the cash, then do that. It's an interesting little aside from the generalized gameplay format found in most other games. The controls for the machines, for instance, can be awkward or perhaps eccentric. However, once you work with them a bit, they are quite serviceable. This is also helped by the automation of some systems after a certain point while upgrading things. The graphics are gorgeous, and can also be pared down for the Steam decks needs. And might add that they just added steam cloud saving, so you can now jump between your PC and your steam deck. Nice! While I'll agree it's not for everyone, I think with time and some streamlined controls, and further optimization, this game will be quite the gem. And with the dedication of these Devs, I have no doubt that will be the case. Give it a try!

Nov. 2024

It seems like a lot of negative reviews are from people who want more of a focus on one activity rather than having a range of activities that you can engage with on your own terms. The variety offered by this game is precisely why I love it. If I get bored gathering trash I can switch focus to renovating items. If I get bored renovating items, I can go search for cars to crush. If I get bored with the search, I can go to my junkyard and work on cleaning up another area. This makes the game perfect for someone who loves variety. I find a lot of depth in this. The tutorial is a bit lengthy and I was antsy about getting some freedom, but it does help you understand everything the game has to offer. If you want something direct where you are expected to focus on just one type of task, this game isn't for you. If you love menial task games, making old things look good again, and variety, you'll enjoy this. ETA: I just saw that this is still in early access. I thought it was complete because it is so engaging and extensive. For an early access game, this is absolutely great.

Oct. 2024

This could be one of the best games for renovating, cleaning and painting random items and cars if it gets more love and the controls were improved. I spend most of time renovating items and cars. Clicking to remove each car part is almost on par with Car Mechanic Simulator. Then cleaning and painting is pretty fun, but could be improved. It would be much better to reduce motion sickness if done like in Gas Station Simulator Junkyard DLC. Using the grinder there looks more realistic and you don't have to aim so much with the crosshair and shake your screen around, which can cause motion sickness when moving quickly. Or like in Powerwash Simulator, where you can press a button to activate a view in which you don't look around directly with the mouse, but just move the crosshair without moving the screen. Also, when using the brush, sandblaster, grinder, etc., it looks good how you actually clean the items, but it's not even necessary as the game just looks for a few spots you can highlight with a button press. It would be more interesting if you actually had to clean 90% or more. On the plot where you open your own junkyard lot, I don't like the handling of the tools at all. It's so tedious and not satisfying to clean everything up. But I can easily ignore this part of the game since there is so much more to do.

Oct. 2024

the game is great i love it, but i was hoping we can have an option to not sell the renovated items and to be able to use the renovated collection cars

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-60% 19.50€ 7.80€

6.2

1,121

652

Online players

Developer

Rebelia Games

Publisher

PlayWay S.A.

Release 13 Oct 2021

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