Trash Day lets you and as many as five other players steer a team of raccoons escaping Animal Control. The crew nabs a wagon, loads it with garbage, and pushes toward Raccoon Paradise. This online physics co-op game centers on a delicate cart, six zones that grow more dangerous, and players who must coordinate their direction.
Quick answer: Trash Day is a co-op physics-adventure game for 1–6 players from Off by One Games, out on Steam for Windows at $7.99 (discounted to $7.19 through October 27).
What Trash Day is and who made it
The premise is simple and the execution is the joke. You play raccoons locked up at “Whatabrand Animal Hospitality,” escape the holding pen, and set off with a stolen red wagon loaded with the best trash you can find. The route runs across six areas, from Animal Control through wilderness and traffic-choked roads toward the junkyard the game calls Raccoon Paradise.
It comes from Off by One Games, an independent studio founded in 2023 by developers who previously worked together on Rocket League. The team is based in San Diego, California and Flagstaff, Arizona, and focuses on physics-based multiplayer games. Trash Day is their first title, and co-founder Corey Davis summed up the approach bluntly: “We knew it would be impossible to follow up Rocket League, so we made a game about raccoons collecting garbage.”
The wagon is the whole game
Everything in Trash Day revolves around the cart. You assemble its wheels with a wrench tool, and from there it behaves like a real, unruly object. It loses wheels on hills, tips over on uneven ground, and sheds loot over every bump. When a wheel pops off mid-climb, someone has to bolt it back on with an Impact Wrench or Deluxe Wrench. When it flips, the crew flips it back.
You can also upgrade it. Vending machines sell wooden panel extensions, such as the Durawood Panel, that raise the wagon’s sides so it carries more without spilling. Because the cart is balanced for a group, a single raccoon struggles to steer it. The game technically supports solo play, but the official pitch is honest that one raccoon is not enough.
Scavenging trash and turning it into cash
Collectible objects are marked with a blue outline. You pick them up by hand, carry them to the wagon, and stack them inside. A counter on the HUD tracks how much of an area’s haul you have gathered, counting up toward the total for that stage. Items range from junk to high-value finds: monitors, keyboards, car batteries, dumbbells, mounted fish, and household appliances all go in the cart.
Loot is hidden throughout each level, which rewards poking into every corner. Cabins hold odd pickups like a safety step, a baby bottle, and a mounted fish, and tall lookout towers hide electronics and a fire extinguisher. There are secrets, too, such as a collectible trumpet tucked behind a waterfall that your raccoon can actually play.
Trash becomes money at a deposit station: a modified industrial washing machine, parked under a shed, that you dump items into to convert them into cash. Clearing an area means hitting its master exit switch, which triggers a short celebration and moves the squad to the next stage.
Hazards, downed teammates, and reviving
The world is designed to wreck your run. Each area throws a different obstacle at the wagon, and most of them are a timing problem rather than a fight.
- Busy highways with semi-trucks and buses that flatten raccoons and scatter loot
- Steep sandy inclines and cliffside paths where the cart tips into the canyon
- Rockslides and rolling boulders that scatter the squad
- A river gorge with waterfalls and water geysers used to launch the wagon up ledges
- Guard dogs, bees, and bear traps on their own turf
If a raccoon is knocked out by a fall, an impact, or an animal attack, its teammates can revive it. They can use an adrenaline syringe or interact with one of the big green dumpsters found in each area to bring up the “Rescue Friends” prompt. Food pickups—donuts, cookies, bananas, and burgers—restore health; a donut is identified in-game as “Donut – Eat (Heal).”
Cooperation is baked into the level design. Some gates only open when players stack crates and planks to reach an overhead switch, chained levers need pulling, hills need coordinated pushing, and the geysers only work if the crew lines up the wagon correctly. Checkpoints bank your progress, so the real objective is reaching the next checkpoint with the cart intact rather than hoarding the perfect haul.
Customization and co-op setup
You pick from preset animal avatars, including raccoons, red pandas, skunks, and foxes, then adjust details like fur color and leash tint from the “Customize Raccoon” menu. Out in the world you can grab hats and accessories, such as a sheriff hat, a detective fedora, and a horse mask, and swap them on the fly. There are also emotes, poses, and a set of comedic physics interactions like fart mechanics and spray-paint graffiti.
Online co-op supports up to six players, with as many as five friends helping you push and steer. Reviews lean heavily toward group play, and several describe the campaign as short, so it reads best as a focused multi-area run with a crew rather than a long solo project.
The free demo takes place in one of the six areas and lets you learn wagon handling, checkpoint banking, and stacking—skills expected in the full game.
Price, release, and platform
Trash Day released on October 13, 2026, on Steam for Windows PC. It normally costs $7.99, with an introductory 10% discount bringing it to $7.19 that runs until October 27. A Supporter Edition bundle pairs the base game with the Stinky Rich Supporter Pack, and a separate official soundtrack is also listed. User reviews sit at Very Positive. You can find the current price and the bundle on the Trash Day Steam page.
The game lists single-player, online co-op, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, with interface, full audio, and subtitles across 16 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese. Here is what it needs to run.
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10/11 64-bit |
| CPU | Core i3-10100 / Ryzen 3 3100 | Core i5-10400 / Ryzen 5 3600 |
| RAM | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| GPU | GTX 1650 / RX 570, 4 GB | RTX 2060 / RX 5600 XT, 6 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB | 5 GB |
Both tiers require DirectX 11 and a broadband connection. The minimum spec targets 1080p on Low settings, while the recommended spec aims for 1080p on High at 60 fps. Whether you come for the raccoon cosplay or the engineering disasters, the core draw stays the same: one wagon, a lot of trash, and a crew that has to move it together.
