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Play the BRAND NEW demo for cosy shopkeeping game Trash Goblin during Steam Next Fest

London, England – October 14th, 2024 – Indie game developer Spilt Milk Studios is delighted to report that their upcoming wholesome shopkeeping game Trash Goblin has an all new demo, available to play at Steam Next Fest from October 14th-21st. Get ready to polish, restore, and cobble together lost trinkets in this tactile, chill take on the shop simulator!

Trash Goblin is a wholesome & cosy 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! Trash Goblin launches in Early Access on November 6th.

The new demo will include:

  • The first 30+ minutes of the full game including story, characters, and a proper tutorial!
  • 20 trinkets to experiment with through chipping, cleaning, upcycling, and selling
  • Refined controls for smoother object interactions
  • Customise your shop with shelves and cosmetics

Trash Goblin lets you customise 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 colourful 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!

Trash Goblin’s Early Access launch will feature:

  • 50+ trinkets, accessories & variations to find, clean, repair and upcycle with well over 180 unique (and sometimes questionable) combinations to muck around with
  • 3+ tools to use across 3 trinket-care minigames
  • 5+ NPC characters to get to know and sell to
  • Hand-crafted quests
  • Endless customers
  • Endless gameplay

In other exciting news, Trash Goblin has been announced as a finalist at the TIGA Games Industry Awards for Best Casual Game and Best Small Studio, and has been nominated at the DevGamm Awards 2024 for Excellence in Game Design, Visual Art, Audio, and Most Anticipated Game. And alongside the Steam Next Fest, Trash Goblin will also be showcased at SXSW Sydney from October 14th to 20th.

About Spilt Milk Studios

Spilt Milk Studios is a multi-award-winning independent game developer. We’re focused on delighting players with wholesome games made with a twinkle in our eye, and are dedicated to fostering a diverse community who values curiosity and empathy. We’re making games for a global audience, and are driven by an inexorable moral imperative around how we build our company and the kinds of games we want to make. These pillars guide us as we grow, nurturing people, processes & talent so that we leave the world a better place than how we found it. It’s literally the least we can do.