Junkyard Universe
Release date: Oct 30, 2025
Developers: Sarah Dressel
Publishers: Sarah Dressel
Genres: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie
Categories: Single-player, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Keyboard Only Option, Save Anytime, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, German

Junkyard Universe is a 2D galaxy cleaner: Dissolve space trash or repair it. Trade with trash and tactics to bail out your junk eraser ship. Built a relationship with the rebels, aliens and other allies and enemies. Search for your lost mother as space pilot Meredith. Bail out Your Junk Eraser Ship: Use updates and game mechanics skillfully to collect 125,000 dissolve points to bail out your junk eraser ship before the DISSOLVER year is over and your points are reset to 0. Dissolve trash into nothing to collect dissolve points and make space traveling saver for everyone! Repair trash and learn what the items are worth Trade items for dissolve points or recycling coins Buy updates to improve your ship Use items to help you survive the current level and make more room in your inventory Unique mechanics: Turning is the new moving! Turn left to shoot particles turn right to load the particle tanks A game that respects your time and play-style: 4-6 hours playtime can be saved at any time 3 difficulty levels Story: Search for your lost mother as space pilot Meredith. Uncover all the dirty secrets of the DISSOLVER company. Rebel against the system by installing a repair upgrade to repair things instead of just dissolving them. Bail out your junk eraser ship before the DISSOLVER year is over. After all, if you don't bail out your junk eraser ship, it will never tell you anything about what happened to your lost mother Elaina. Decide who you will trust and rely on: your surrogate father, a loyal DISSOLVER engineer who has raised you ever since your mother went missing? Your actual father, a man you have never seen before? The rebels? The aliens? Can you even trust your own junk eraser ship? Can you save the world by repairing things instead of destroying them? Characters: Meredith: She grew up in the childcare unit of the DISSOLVER company. One day when Meredith was still a teenager her mother just didn't return from work. Determined to find out what happened to her mother, Meredith got her pilot license and is now about to board the junk eraser ship 3LS4, the very ship that returned without her mother Elaina. 3LS4: Junk eraser ship. Returned without its pilot Elaina after its last flight. Refuses to hand over Elaina’s pilot logs, since they are protected by the pilot association’s psychological safety agreements. Its particle dissolve projector is powered by a supermassive black hole at its core. If it could move on its own, it would be considered a weapon of mass destruction. Since it has been somewhat erratic ever since returning, it is scheduled for erasure. Dexter: Meredith's surrogate dad. As a loyal DISSOLVER engineer he happened to be around when Meredith's mother vanished. He mentored and supported Meredith all the way through her studies, but he cannot approve of her boarding a ship about to explode. After all, that's what it did to his laptop when he tried to get Elaina's pilot logs out of junk eraser ship 3LS4. 3LM4R: A customer facing unit working on the DISSOLVER station. He strongly reminds Meredith of Elmar, the customer facing unit in the DISSOLVER kindergarten. Mikhail: The top mechanic and inventor of the rebels – that is, after Elaina left. He still knows how to install, use and upgrade her most important invention: the repair particle projector. Chen: Young tractor ship pilot and rebel. Since his home planet got destroyed by a junk eraser ship crashing into it, he was partially raised by Mikhail. Naaib: The leader of the rebels. He refuses to tell you anything before you have proved your merit. XorX: Alien tractor ship pilot. He doesn't seem to be very sociable. Maybe that's just because he's an Alien. Maybe.