Junkyard Truck
Skip · Strategy · 2022 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 76% of 1,295 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Junkyard Truck is an open-world off road driving and mechanic simulator. Build, upgrade, and maintain your old off road truck. Make money using your skills in driving, scavenging, gambling, or moonshine brewing. Try to build a truck capable of taking on the difficult challenges around the map.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 10 GB of memory, GTX 1060, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 4 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 46 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Long Drive ($15.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Truck & Logistics Simulator ($19.99, scores 27).
More about Junkyard Truck
Of the 586 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 488 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 173 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
42% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Junkyard Truck scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1697880/junkyard-truckReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.