Indie Corner: Junk Planet

The game takes place on Junk Planet, a planet that was bombarded with so much junk, it was completely ruined. It’s here that a peculiar pair meet by chance and their story begins. Clean up junk, bring plants and creatures to life, help spread water, or uncover dark areas. With many ways to enrich the planet, work to reclaim as much as you can!

“On Junk Planet, each area is protected by a guardian. Bringing down these guardians and expanding the area is Warashi’s ultimate goal. Reclaim the planet to make these guardians appear.” Warashi can use mysterious powers, such as creating items from raw materials, changing the use of items, even talking to people far away! By giving Warashi a piggyback, the player can borrow these powers. Dig deep into the ground, fight in battles, build buildings, do whatever you want in this open sandbox game.

So far the official info and while it sounds quite interesting, it actually is horribly translated, so much that it ruins the game and makes certain info simply so weird that you can not simply understand it. I took some screenshots to prove my point.

The game itself plays nice, for as far as I understood anything. Bluntly speaking, I did not take very long to lose any and all interest to keep playing. I personally hate 2 different things that can go wrong with games, way too hard and unable to really play the game. Junk planet fits in perfectly with the latter category. I went about as far as to create a house out of junk with a candle inside and then it forced my switch to reboot. After the reboot, I had no save at all aside from the world name.

I did not really want to restart from scratch, so I poked around the options a little. It is clear that this game was not designed in English but rather poorly translated. Sadly enough, this is also the point that I gave up on it. I would gladly give a proper translation a try, but with the status of the game as it is right now, my suggestion is to skip it.