New Trash Goblin Demo Available This Weekend

I’ve had my eye on Trash Goblin since it was announced. The wholesome shopkeeping game just seems like a lot of fun, even in the early stages of development. Now, developer Spilt Milk Studios has released an all-new demo, available this weekend.

As part of the Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration 2024, running from May 30^th (yesterday) to June 2^nd, Trash Goblin has a new demo. Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration 2024 is a hand-picked selection of cozy and family-friendly games. This Trash Goblin demo will premiere upcycling, allowing you to turn trinkets into more interesting creations. Here’s what the press release has to say about the demo:

“Trash Goblin is a wholesome & cozy shopkeeping game where you play as a goblin who uncovers and restores trinkets. Find peculiar knickknacks by chipping away at the dirt and cruft they’re embedded inside. Scrub them up nice and clean with your sponge to get them ready for sale. After all, one goblin’s trash is another goblin’s treasure!

Customize your newly replenished goods by combining trinkets together, upcycling them into strange and wonderful new items to meet the eccentric requests of your endless array of colorful customers. Get to know your audience so you can make custom pieces tailored around their likes and dislikes – which will fetch you even more money.

Grow your business! Invest your savings to upgrade your shop, buy new and better tools that offer additional ways to restore your trinkets – making them even more valuable – and even expand your business to exciting new districts across town.

This demo offers over 90 minutes of gameplay, taking players through the basics of chipping, cleaning and upcycling trinkets, talking to customers, and even combining your restored trash into upcycled gems, with over two dozen trinkets to choose from.”

Spilt Milk’s Creative Director, Andrew Smith commented on the demo’s release, stating: “We’re so excited for people to finally be able to play with Upcycling in this fresh new demo of Trash Goblin. We can’t wait to see all the shiny, weird creative combos of trinkets people come up with, and we’re looking forward to hearing player feedback as this will be the first time this build of Trash Goblin, which introduces the upcycling feature, has been publicly playable. This allows players to connect and combine trinkets. There are 48 Trinkets to play with, so with upcycling there are north of 1,000 combinations players can discover!”

I’m very excited to see more about Trash Goblin. The game looks like a blast already, and I love a good, cozy, relaxing game that lets me be creative. Plus, who doesn’t like to turn trash into treasures? We don’t have a full release date yet, but you can check out the demo until Monday.