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Garbage Growth

apepatrickdev · 2026-06-23

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 23, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!

Garbage Growth is a Casual, Indie, Simulation game released in 2026, priced at $4.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 333 reviews).

92%
positive of 367 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 307 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~38/week).
  • · Top 15% of 29,120 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.3k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 367 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2026-06-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 0 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12312320262026Week of 2026-06-23: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 15 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

14
achievements tracked
98.7%
earned "First Trash"
92.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCustom Volume Controls#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeFamily Sharing1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2026-06-02 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)26386%14

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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