Trash Goblin
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9.4h
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 11 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX11, DX12 capable, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
A wholesome, cosy shopkeeping game with no pressures, no stress, and endless good vibes! Uncover and clean trinkets then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful and quirky customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy better tools, plus expand and customise your space.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was March 2026. 15 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sticky Business ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Fruitbus ($24.99, scores 59).
This site sampled 497 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 153 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.4 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 2.4 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Players
38 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 16:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
So repetitive to the point it's not fun. It feels hollow and like something is missing. I enjoyed the demo but am very displeased with the actual game. I was really excited for it too.
I know repetition is the name of the game in the shopkeeper genre, but the repetition here somehow bleeds through the nice artwork and somewhat interesting premise until it just feels like clicking for the sake of it. On top of that uneasy feeling is the mechanic of never really having what you need to complete a sale, so you have to file customers away until you finally get what you need from the random bags of...
Update to my original review (original below the break): With the 'Spick & Span' update the devs seem to have addressed my main complaint, which is that discovering all of the trinkets easily doubles the playtime. An update was made to the RNG, prioritizing undiscovered trinkets, per the patch notes. With that being said, I'm going to change my review from 'no' to 'yes' with the hope that they in the future add more...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Trash Goblin scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2407830/trash-goblinReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 25, price as of Oct 1.
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