Junk Busters : Gear Roguelite

Crafting gears from battle junk

Junk is the currency of the crafting system. You collect it during battles, then spend it to craft new gears and add them to your build.

Because crafting depends on what you pick up in each fight, the gears you can make change from one battle to the next.

Placing gears and building combinations

Your engine has limited space, so every crafted gear has to fit into a set area. Where you put a gear matters as much as which gear it is.

The developer says the same gear can produce very different combat results depending on the gears around it and where it sits. Strategy comes from choosing which gears to craft, where to place them and which combinations to aim for.

Roguelite runs and the Busters

Runs are roguelite sessions, and the developer says each one offers different builds, rewards and combat situations. Nothing is fixed from one run to the next, so the same plan may not come up twice.

Each Buster is a playable character with exclusive gears and a combat style of their own. Choosing a Buster shapes which gears are available to you and how you fight.

The dieselpunk setting

The world is dieselpunk, with scrap heaps, heavy machinery and engines. The developer presents this setting as the backdrop for the scavenging and building that the game is built on.