Simple problems. Terrible solutions.
Four friends. One terrible job.
Take on environmental disaster jobs with up to four friends. Dig, divert, and try not to make things worse.
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The job
TrashWorks work order
Expected hazard: minor coastal flooding
Crew: human
Quoted price: suspiciously low
How you do it is up to you. There is never just one way.
Terrain
Dig trenches, pile up berms and move dirt wherever the plan needs it. Every shovel changes where the water goes next.
Water and lava
Water runs downhill, fills every hole and follows your channels. Pump it up and spray it somewhere better. Dirt walls hold until the water wears them down. And where water meets lava, the lava turns to stone.
Consequences
Well… now what?
Nobody is sabotaging anyone. Everyone is helping, in the same world. And a flooded village isn't game over. It's the next problem.
Your crew
Up to four friends on one job site. Half the fun is what you shout.
Conditions
Not every job has a disaster. Some are just digging with friends. When one is coming, you'll see it: storm clouds, a distant rumble, a TrashWorks weather advisory.
Runoff everywhere. Holes fill up and dirt walls soften.
You can barely see, and fresh sand fills your channels.
New lava, new hazards, new routes.
Another water source your plan didn't count on.
Disasters can be resources too.
Job complete
Somehow, the plan holds. Then you get to see what you did.
Hardworking, affordable and, according to the paperwork, entirely human. TrashWorks takes the jobs nobody else will, for a price nobody questions.
Muckworks started as a childhood dream. I played From Dust and wanted to be in that world, not floating above it. I wanted to be down on the ground with a shovel while the river changes course around my feet.
It's also every afternoon at the beach. You dig a channel, the sea finds it, your sandcastle wall holds for exactly one wave, and then it doesn't. That feeling of shaping the ground and watching water decide what happens next is the whole game. Now it's with your friends, and the sandcastle is a village.
And anyone who loved From Dust.
I studied how those games turn simple controls into chaos between friends. Muckworks does it with the ground itself.
Wishlisting costs nothing and tells Steam the game exists. It is the single most useful thing you can do for a solo developer before launch.
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Muckworks is made by FinalBuild2, a solo independent game developer.
