Scrapyard Tycoon

Buy wrecks. Strip them bolt by bolt. Sell the parts. Build a scrap empire.

Scrapyard Tycoon is a first-person 3D car deconstruction tycoon. You start with a rusty hatchback, a wrench and $350. You finish with a fully automated yard, a crew of mechanics and a golden monument to your success.

A full run takes about 2–3 hours.

How it plays

1. Bid at the auction. Pick a wreck from the offers. Condition and price are a gamble, and now and then a rare barn find turns up.

2. Take it apart. Aim at a part, hold the mouse and watch the sparks fly. Parts come off in a sensible order: bumper before radiator, hood before engine, dash before ECU.

3. Sell the parts. Carry them to the counter, or unlock the drone network so they fly there on their own. Fill customer contracts for up to 2.5x the price.

4. Scrap the shell. A tow truck tips each new wreck into your bay and hauls the empty shell away. Later you can crush shells in a hydraulic press or an auto-baler.

5. Grow. Spend your profit on better tools, more bays, mechanics and better cars.

Features

• Hands-on stripping with 30 different part types, from wheels and doors to engines, catalytic converters and ECUs.

• 7 tool tiers, from a plain wrench to a nano-disassembler. Better tools work faster, reach parts that were off limits and even recover more value.

• 8 car classes, from rusty hatchback to hyper supercar. The EV hides a huge battery pack. The supercar has a rear engine. The pickup has a truck bed.

• 8 work bays with hydraulic lifts for the underbody and engine hoists for the heavy stuff.

• Hire and train mechanics who strip cars for you. Add a foreman to scrap finished shells and a dispatcher to buy cars automatically.

• A living economy: customer contracts, market booms where one part sells for 2x or more, cash stuffed in gloveboxes, and auction gambling.

• Skill and reputation that make you faster and your prices better the more you play.

• Faster movement with sprint boots, a kick scooter and rocket boots.

• Day and night cycle with lamp posts, floodlights and a flashlight for night shifts.

• Juicy feedback: sparks, flying parts, dust, screen shake and the crunch of the hydraulic press.

• Low-poly 3D with dynamic shadows, fog and a real sky, plus sound effects and music.

• Autosave and a pause menu with sensitivity and volume settings.

Progression

Tools, carrying capacity, movement speed, extra bays, lifts, hoists, presses, drones, a parts washer, a detailing shop, an online store, auction licences and alerts, mechanics, mechanic training, and finally the Yard Empire Monument.

Controls

| Key | Action |

|---|---|

| WASD / mouse | Move / look |

| Shift / Space | Sprint / jump |

| Left mouse (hold) | Remove a part |

| Right mouse | Toggle auto-work |

| E | Use terminal, sell parts, or hold on a shell to scrap it |

| F | Flashlight |

| M | Music |

| Esc | Pause |

| F11 / F12 | Fullscreen / screenshot |

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 (64-bit)

• A graphics card and driver with Vulkan 1.3 support (any recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel GPU; update your driver if the game won't start)

• Keyboard and mouse

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