Scrap Baron: Scrapyard Tycoon

Scrap Baron is a scrapyard tycoon set in Paslıdere, an industrial estate on the edge of Istanbul. Street collectors bring copper, brass, aluminium, iron, stainless steel, batteries, e-waste, cardboard and PET by handcart, cargo trike and pickup truck; you weigh it on the weighbridge, look it over, haggle, and sell it to the wholesaler in the evening. Rıza Usta shows you the ropes on the first day and drops a tip whenever one is due. WEIGH, INSPECT, HAGGLE • Every collector has a character: some are honest, some sly, some impatient; loyal ones come more often and cheat less. • Soaked cardboard, stones at the bottom of a sack, unstripped cable, iron mixed into the aluminium, magnetic chrome mixed into the stainless, gutted batteries, circuit boards stripped of their chips, rubbish: take a look, hold up the magnet, tip the sack out if you must. The clock keeps running and the queue keeps waiting. • Make your offer; a counter-offer comes back, and you haggle twice at most. Go too low and the collector walks. RUN THE YARD • Every morning, read the wholesale prices, the news, the forecast and the rival yards, and set your price board. • Rain keeps collectors away and soaks the cardboard left in the open; the first dry day after the rain brings more of them to the gate. • Buy a tea stove, a sorting grate, a shed, a security camera, a baler, a “Scrap Wanted” banner and a van. • Hire a weigher, a worker and a driver; borrow from the cooperative, sell for cheques, and never forget the rent and the tax. • Sign tonnage contracts with the paper mill, the steel mill, the foundry and the recovery plant; watch out for bounced cheques. • Get your license, keep the neighbours happy, be ready for the zabıta, the municipal police, and answer the rivals’ price wars. • Keep the scale’s stamp current. Cevdet the scale man’s offer to “adjust” it is tempting, but getting caught costs dearly. FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TO A RECYCLING PLANT Reach the neighbourhood yard’s goal and move up, or start straight at a plant: • The sorting plant: trucks that bring scrap by the tonne, a cable stripper, a forklift and a sorting line. • The recycling plant: a furnace and a granule line, an exporter who pays in dollars, the municipality’s tenders and rival yards bought as branches; at the goal, the title of Scrap Baron and the endless game. • Machines wear out as they work and break down if neglected: call the mechanic in time. DECORATE THE YARD 18 yard cosmetics: gate paints, dogs, cats, van liveries, a canary, an evil-eye bead and bunting. Ten are ready from the start; some of the 25 achievements unlock the other eight. • Entirely free: no purchases, no ads, no subscription, no account. • Plays offline; your save stays on your device, and a save code carries it to another one. • English and Turkish. • All of the pixel art and every sound are drawn and made by the game’s own code.