Junkyard Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2021 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.
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
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.59. It has been discounted 52 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. On the same math Truck & Logistics Simulator ($9.99, scores 29) and Jalopy ($14.99, scores 41) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 27 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 311 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 6 of the 27 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 527 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% 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
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
pros so much to do. renovating vehicles: nicely detailed, lots of tools to do so. driving: who doesnt like to drive in games? graphics: pretty impressed for a small studio working on this game; have the graphics peaked for you guys? if so, great job on doing what you did here. if not and continue to make the game look good, WOW. surprisingly great frame rates without screen tearing on a regular tv, not sure about a...
Absolutely incredible game!! There's a great variety of things to do depending on what you like doing best! I love the collecting and scrapping, as well as refurbishing. It's intuitive, but also explained well by the tutorials! I'm a more casual player who doesn't love feeling rushed or having time limits, and this game lends itself well to that! Perhaps even more important than being a generally fun, relaxing...
This game is a bit of a mess. I'll try and be as brief as I am able with why I wouldn't recommend it. To start with, the localization and script for the bits of voice acting you get in the story mode feel choppy, awkward and stilted. The sentences and way the character on the phone speaks is weird at best, especially ending every single sentence with a "haha". The voice actor did his absolute best with what he had...
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Cite this score
Junkyard Simulator scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/671970/junkyard-simulatorReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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