Scrappage

Scrappage is a small, spare game whose name suggests salvage, scraps, or making do, and that kind of idea usually points to something low-budget and mechanically narrow rather than broad or lavish. By our assessment, it can work if the play loop is built around a single clear idea and keeps the player busy with that idea instead of dressing it up. The downside is that games with this sort of name and scale often live or die on how much variety they can squeeze out of one system, and once that system runs thin there is nowhere to hide. In practice, that usually means a focused, slightly rough experience that asks for patience more than comfort. It sits closer to small independent experiments than to polished mainstream action or story games, so the fit is better for people who like compact oddities than for anyone wanting a large, forgiving package.