Garbage Collectors by squashi
Incremental game set in a junkyard where you collect garbage and feed into the Furnace to bring back that sweet garbage-free solid floor!
Inputs
- Interact - Mouse left / Space
- Move - WASD / Arrow keys
- Zoom - Mouse wheel / QE
Team
- @squashi - Code and art
- @Kaganobik - Music and SFX
Note
- The game doesn't have an end(ing), so stop playing whenever you like!
- Not thoroughly playtested/tuned, expect game balance to be broken as you progress!
Screenshots

| itch.io | https://squashi.itch.io/garbage-collectors |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/garbage-collectors |
Ratings
| Overall | 459th | 3.432⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 503th | 3.182⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 539th | 3⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 352th | 3.727⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 466th | 3.5⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 82th | 4⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 484th | 3.4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
If you still want to improve the game, I would consider updating the descriptions of the upgrades a little bit. It says that 'you get a sightly larger click area', but the size of the actual rocks flying to the fire is actually increased quite a lot XD
Really well done! I enjoyed this a lot :D
@wuppos In theory you can clear all the garbage in the map, in fact someone did manage to reach the edge of the map and posted a screenshot of it in itch.io page comments. Upgrade descriptions are subpar for sure, but i can't update it since jam voting is ongoing :shrug:
Well, thank you all for playing and leaving valuable feedback! Really appreciated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6otbiSgNs
But in all seriousness this was a good clicker game.
It obviously gets crazy if you're patient but I think if you decide to explore this project further, leaning into the crazy might be a lot of fun. Oh, you can just wipe out entire mountains of trash? Cool, help clean up the ocean now. Cities need to be cleaned too. Oh the planets clean? Other planets want in on your garbage disposal. Scale the experience with the players abilities up until the very idea of garbage across the cosmos is nought but a whisper on the solar winds.
Another idea is to add tools the player can get to structure their waste disposal, making vehicles and tools and such to let your workers go wild. Either way you guys did a great job :) Thank you for your game!