Compactor Baron

Point. Crush. Pay the bills.

Compactor Baron is an active incremental about crushing scrap into cubes to keep up with your bills. Point at the junk on your workbench and the hammer swings by itself. Every cube you sell goes toward the next invoice, and every upgrade turns a cluttered bench into a busy little workshop.

Aim with the mouse while the hammer keeps a steady beat. Center your hits for more value, chain clean streaks and PERFECT blows, and watch every piece dent, fold and pack into a cube that still shows what it used to be.

Eighteen kinds of scrap reach your bench as you earn, from soda cans and keyboards to washing machines, an arcade cabinet, a safe, a compact car and one very Suspicious Container. Cans hop, cardboard darts, wheeled junk glides and appliances lurch, so the table never sits still.

An invoice sits on the bench while you work, its ink bar filling as you earn. Pay it and a rubber stamp slams down PAID, then a bigger bill slides in. Pay early for a rebate. Come up short and Mara, a scrap broker on a salvaged phone, will cover you for a cut. Miss three payments and the run is over.

Buy machines that land right on your bench and work the real scrap: a hydraulic press, a claw arm, a twin shredder, a bale wrapper and more, 13 in all. Link them into lines that shred, fold, wrap and compact while you keep swinging, and fund the Mega Compactor on the back wall to finish the campaign.

Add the Scrap Runner, a little tracked robot that patrols the bench, picks up loose cans and carries them to your machines. Bonk it with the hammer and it drops its load, wobbles, and waves at you.

Grow a 200-skill tree across six branches, from hammer craft and stamina to machine lines and the robot. Almost every skill changes how the table plays, and the first time a new one fires, its name lights up right where it happened. Ten hammers hit harder, and from the fourth one on, each adds a special strike of its own.

Mara presses a gold gear into one of three scrap bales and shuffles them faster and faster until they blur. Keep your eye on the right one, smash it with your hammer, and win back more than you staked. Played with in-game cash only.

Bankruptcy is a fresh start, not the end. Sign the papers and a padlock lands on the bench, but your Patents stay: 24 heirlooms worn on your glove, your hammer and your desk, bought with tokens that pop out of crushed scrap.

• 31 interface languages
  
• Mouse-only play: you aim, the hammer swings
  
• Motion Effects can be switched off, and the cursor's size, colour and opacity can be adjusted
  
• Progress saves automatically, even in the middle of a round