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My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐ cover art

My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐

Polnoch · Polden Publishing · 2025-11-25

Steam

ActionCasualSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 25, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A cozy garbage-cleaning simulator. Dig through the dump, find ultra-rare collectible cards, rescue tangled birds, and relax.

My Wife Threw Out My Card Collection (So I Bought a Dump to Find Them All) ⭐ is an Action, Casual, and Simulation game released in 2025, priced at $7.95, with Mixed (66% of 1678 reviews).

66%
positive of 1.7k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.95
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 118 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (487 reviews).
  • · Top 12% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 34k–76k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,678 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.77 at Steam (2025-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.95 · on sale 12 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34234220252026Week of 2025-11-25: 342 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 145 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 114 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 75 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-12-16: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-12-23: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-12-30: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-06: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 48 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-27: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-03: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-10: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-17: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-31: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-04-14: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-04-21: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-05: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-19: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-28: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 8 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.95$4.772025-11-252026-08-122025-11-25 — best price $4.772025-12-09 — best price $7.952026-01-09 — best price $5.962026-01-23 — best price $7.952026-02-18 — best price $7.952026-02-22 — best price $5.962026-03-06 — best price $5.962026-03-08 — best price $7.952026-03-11 — best price $5.962026-03-12 — best price $5.622026-03-13 — best price $5.272026-03-14 — best price $7.952026-03-17 — best price $5.962026-03-19 — best price $5.962026-03-26 — best price $7.952026-03-30 — best price $7.552026-04-01 — best price $7.952026-04-07 — best price $5.962026-04-21 — best price $7.952026-04-22 — best price $7.952026-05-21 — best price $5.962026-05-22 — best price $7.952026-06-04 — best price $7.952026-06-25 — best price $5.962026-07-23 — best price $7.952026-08-12 — best price $7.95
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
98.9%
earned "First Trash Bag"
83.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeFamily Sharing2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2025-11-25 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,36937%21

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.

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