Garbage Growth
Released Jun 2026
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!
90% positive · 384 reviews
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Released, but content still planned
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Content Planned
Where to buy
Steam $4.99
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Evaluation
Garbage Growth launched on June 23, 2026 as a short incremental trash-collection game. Three days after launch, the developer announced that the next major content update will add a Moon area — a new playable zone described as having more depth and less linear progression than the game's existing areas. On July 9, 2026, the developer posted a second sneak peek with screenshots and additional details, confirming the Moon update was still actively in development and estimating at least two weeks from that date until release. The developer also mentioned plans to potentially rework a section of the existing progression alongside the Moon update. Throughout the pre-launch and post-launch period, the developer has been consistently communicative, shipping patches and providing regular updates. The Moon area update has been explicitly announced and shown, representing a clear commitment to additional content beyond the base game.
Evidence
Developer shared a second sneak peek of the Moon area update, showing work-in-progress screenshots and describing it as a more complex area with less linear progression. Estimated at least 2 weeks until release as of this post.
Developer announced the Moon as the next upcoming area, describing it as a new content update and promising more details soon.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
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Details
Developer
Publisher
apepatrickdev
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Garbage Growth
Pick up trash, add more pollution, and become rich!
More money
People will start throwing you a bunch of trash, you will need to pick them up to make money
More pollution
You can add more people to throw even more trash! The more pollution the better
Hire rats
Collecting may become a bit tedious so let me introduce you to... rats!
Buy skills
*skill tree*
And much more!
Much much very exciting stuff soon, wishlist Garbage Growth game to not miss the full release :)
Last evaluated Sep 4, 2026
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