Scrapping Simulator

Scrapping Simulator is a low-poly, first-person simulator set in a stylised Australian take on the global e-waste crisis. You work as an e-waste scrapper, finding discarded electronics, dismantling them piece by piece and extracting materials such as copper, silver, gold, iron, aluminium, brass and plastic. You sell scrap, manage expenses and changing market prices, then invest in tools and upgrades to grow your operation.

Scavenge and dismantle

You head out early each morning to find electronics before rival scrappers do. Deciding what is worth taking and what to leave behind is part of the strategy. You can take items apart down to their screws and collect the raw materials inside; hundreds of component combinations shape what you find in e-waste, while the variety of items available changes daily.

Items include LCD and CRT TVs, desktop computers and laptops, microwaves, DVD players, game consoles, servers, routers, HDDs, GPUs, RAM (2–32GB DDR3/DDR4) and power supplies. Their internal parts include CPUs, IC and BGA chips, capacitors, transformers, crystal oscillators, power boards, motherboards, CD drives, screws, heat sinks and network cards. Each component yields materials inspired by its real-world counterpart.

Trade and invest

You can track changing prices on your in-game PC and sell raw or refined metals at the Scrap Yard. The Pawn Shop buys low-tier electronics, helping you free up time and storage for higher-value targets. When you sell and what you focus on can affect your profits.

At the Hardware Store, you can buy faster dismantling tools, solar panels that reduce utility costs and provide idle income, improved ways to transport items, expanded external storage and other efficiency upgrades. Upgrades do not all pay off immediately, so you need to balance purchases with your other expenses and responsibilities. Solar power is affected by the weather.

Refine materials

In the mid-to-late game, you can reinvest profits in a Furnace Set, Crucible and Ingot Moulds to turn accumulated raw base metals into more valuable ingots. Further into the late game, you can unlock a Chemical Set to refine pure gold and silver for premium returns. These systems refine materials you have collected; they do not produce ingots from nothing.

Skills and side jobs

You earn XP by disassembling, trading and scavenging, then gain perk points across three skill trees. The Disassembly tree can improve materials gained and base dismantling speed; Scavenging can provide more items to scrap and increase how many raw materials you can carry; and Trading improves buying and selling prices at various stores.

Optional jobs from Scrapper Joe offer extra cash. You can also buy coffee from Kaz at “Feen 4 Caffeine” to restore energy and keep working through the night. A new game begins with a 10–15-minute guided tutorial on Day 1, during which time is frozen and energy is capped. In-game manuals offer further details about the mechanics.

Running your operation

The game includes bills, financial management, consequences for your actions and interconnected systems, alongside its detailed electronics dismantling. It is a realism-inspired simulator rather than a sandbox destruction game, and an Endless Sandbox Mode is not currently planned.