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"Trash Goblin"
 
   You're a goblin. You have a little shop where you clean up and resell random items of junk bestowed upon you by a generous patron who has an apparently unlimited supply of random items of junk. Eccentric characters come to your shop in search of random items of junk, and if you happen to have the particular random item of junk they want, they give you gold and take it away with them. There's no time pressure, no threat of mortal danger. You just do your job, get paid, improve your tools and/or shop, rinse (literally), repeat.

I played the demo, which gives you 15 in-game days to get a feel for the gameplay loop. The slide at the end claims that the full version has an actual story, which is pretty cool. The worldbuilding is intriguing, and you can see a surprising amount of it considering that you never leave your shop. It's a nice twist on the "you have a job, and it is cleaning stuff" style. Sometime when I have 20 bucks, I'll most likely buy it and see how the story is.

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Peter Eng
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1. "RE: Trash Goblin"
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   If you have ten bucks, it's on sale until March 19, 2026.

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2. "RE: Trash Goblin"
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   I picked up the full game. Without the demo time limit, the gameplay loop is very moreish. As promised by said demo, the game does indeed have a story, and it's surprisingly involved given that the character you play only leaves his shop on rare occasions, and then (so far) only to take a portable market stall to one of the city's commercial districts on market days. You're experiencing the whole thing through your shop window, more or less vicariously, through the network of contacts, customers, and city officials who appear therein. I'm enjoying it a lot. Maybe slightly too much; it does melt the hours if I'm not careful.

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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