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Compactor Baron

You're broke and the bills keep coming. Smash scrap into cubes, sell them, pay up. A short active incremental: aim, let the hammer swing, upgrade your tools, go bankrupt on purpose, and build a scrapyard that pays for itself.

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About the Game

Compactor Baron is an active incremental game about paying your bills by crushing scrap into cubes. Sit at the bench of a bankrupt scrapyard, point the hammer, and turn junk into money before the next invoice lands.

Crush Scrap Into Cubes

Hover over the scrap on your bench and the hammer swings on its own. Every hit costs stamina, and when your arm gives out the round is over. Cans dent, fold and collapse into a cube that still wears the label of whatever it used to be.

Pay the Bills

Invoices arrive at the end of every shift. Pay them off and pick one of three contract cards that change how your next shift plays. Ignore them and the debt piles up until bankruptcy is your only way out.

Go Bankrupt on Purpose

Bankruptcy is not the end. Every closed run earns Patents: a permanent tree of hammers, tools and tricks that make the next scrapyard start stronger and reach further.

From Soda Cans to a Whole Car

Keyboards, toasters, washing machines, arcade cabinets, a bathtub, a safe and a compact car all end up on your bench. Each one moves, sounds and crushes differently, and the heavy ones need a bigger station.

Build a Real Scrapyard

Spend your earnings on presses and machines that appear right on the bench and take over the boring hits, until you are funding the Mega Compactor that finishes the campaign.

Hammers and Skills

Unlock different hammers and grow a three-branch skill tree: precision for cleaner cubes, impact for the big stuff, and flow for speed and automation.

A short game with a proper ending. Pay the last bill, crush the last car, and walk away debt free.

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