Garbage Growth Steam news

• Latest observed players2 · 6 October 2026 - 11:34:49 UTC
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• Release dateJun 23, 2026
• Developerapepatrickdev
• Publisherapepatrickdev

Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation

Company pages: Developer: apepatrickdevPublisher: apepatrickdev

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Garbage Growth Steam news

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• Milking the Moon - Sneak peek 2 - 9 July 2026

  7K SALESFirst off, thank you so much for 7k copies sold! I'd have never thought I’d reach this milestoneYour support means a lot to me! :D Here's some stuff from the moon update i've been working on Everything shown here is not final and is still a work in progress. This area will have much more depth than the other 2 areas, and i want to aim for something less linear for the progression. The "chad" to "???" pollution part is kind of the "weak" part of the game and doesn’t offer a lot of ways to play the game, that's why i'll also be reworking it but whether it will land in this update is still a question mark One thing that's sure is that i'll be lowering the cost of the unlock sea area skill so it can be purchased sooner to avoid staying too long in the field when it is almost unreadable These past few days were a lot of brainstorming ideas and trying to come up with something a bit d…

• We are going to the moon - Sneak peek 1 - 26 June 2026

  TIME TO POLLUTE THE MOONProud to announce that the next upcoming area will be the moon :D Still a work in progress! I want to release this update as soon as possible Also pushed a tiny patch yesterday fixing a bug where you had sea area unlocked from the demo that got transferred to the full game Can't wait to share with you guys much more details soon, please stay tuned!

• Artificially Extending Playtime - Patch 1 - 25 June 2026

  The best way to extend a citizen's working life is to increase the cost of living which is why i'm doing the same with skills costs and spread better the pacing, playtime (from CHAD to END) went from about 47mn to 58mn (a 11mn total increase!) which brings us closer to the 2h threshold of refunding a steam gameNew Skill:- Shark Thunder: shark now use THUNDER QoL changes:- Added hide pollution setting- Added resolution setting when not fullscreen- Improved reduced trash animation setting- Angels go now all the way to the left- Moved "Add +1 Pipe" skill earlier in the skill tree + cost cheaper- Flashing effect of thunder lowered The balance changes:Super Pollution Chad skill from 3m → 4m (+33.3%)Dying Dog from 4m → 6.25m (+56.3%)Tank from 40m → 66m (+65.0%)??? from 7b → 11b (+57.1%)OthersAura Rats income from 450k → 720k (+60.0%)Aura Radius from 900k → 540k (-40.0%)Police Speed from 8.5m…

• Garbage Growth is OUT - 23 June 2026

  Garbage Growth is out right now!

• Release Date + 1k wishlists! - 20 June 2026

  1k wishlists! Garbage growth just hit 1 000 total wishlists! Thank you so much i'd have never reached this milestones without the content creators covering the game, i'm really grateful to them! Release DateJune 23rd is the official release date for the game :D Only 3 days awayMake sure to not miss it!

• 600 Wishlists and a playtest! - 6 June 2026

  In little under a month Garbage Growth reached a surprisingly total of 600 wishlists! Mostly coming fromforums like Newgrounds, in which the game hit #1 featured there for some time :DI wasn't expecting thousand of wishlists but 600 is a really big amount to me I am also planning to release the full game between 8th of June and 15th of JunePlaytestI opened a playtest very recently and already 50+ people signed up! Didn't expected at all this amount of testers willing to help, but I will be shortly closing it soon and will rather run a private playtest directly on my discord.Some people are only signing up to play the game for free and not really helping with the development, which is why I am cancelling it Recent changes in the demo:This includes both the itch.io and the steam demo + various other forumsAdded 15+ languages! Both steam page and the gamePerformance improvementsChanges to…

• All Languages - Update - 23 May 2026

  Added 15 languages! Including:FrenchGermanSpanishItalianPolishPortugueseTurkeyIndonesiaSimplified ChineseTraditional ChineseKoreanJapaneseThaiRussian If any wording looks off please let me know in the steam hub or in the discord

• Demo Hotfix + QoL - 16 May 2026

  Reworked currencies pop up & colors based on the amount you gainPollutions gives more gum and moneyTrash gum value sklls from 10 to 5 but gives +2 instead of +1No more LMB shooting for angels, they shoot automatically and removed autofire skillEarly game faster & easierCurrencies are formatted in letter (M, B etc..) once reaching 1 millionAdded version number in settingAngels count back to 10 + angels lasers also back to 10Fixed game ui and view resolutions on steamdeckReworked wording for some skills description

• Garbage Growth demo is out! - 13 May 2026

  About the demoTheres around 30+ skills and 6 upgrades worth of content. Lasts around 30 minutes, up to 1h max. Full release will have much more content, with more ways to add pollution like the sea area and super pollutions!I fixed a few bugs that happened during launch:Graphics bug where screen would get ultra contrasted on some machinesCpu usage grew over timeIf you encountered one of these bugs on launch, please update and let me know if theres any other issues!

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