History VideoGame / ScrapMechanic

''Scrap Mechanic'' is a {{Construction|AndManagementGames}}-Focused WideOpenSandbox game made by a Swedish developer Axolot Games. The game was originally inspired by the devs' work on a test UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} port of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}. Its main selling point is the ability to create moving machines of byzantine complexity, with any kind of shape and size you want, and potentially endowed with [[TransformingMecha massive transformation capabilities]]. The game was originally announced on the 4th of November, 2014, and was released into UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access a little over a year later, on January 20th, 2016. Four years later, after a protracted development process, the Survival Mode was added to the game, with a load of new content and gameplay mechanics.

* DropTheHammer: Your main weapon for combat is a massive sledgehammer.

* WorkingClassHero: The Mechanics, natch.

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: Unlike the {{cute|Machines}} Craftbots, plenty of Farmbots are some degree of this. Your own Refinebot also fits the description.

* ArtMajorBiology: The fruit and vegetables you can farm in the game grow completely unlike they do in the real world (such as a single tomato growing in a pea-like pod, or corn growing directly on the ground) - [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality done so for the sake of gameplay]].

* ExplodingBarrels: The gas canisters, available in Creative Mode to build elaborate explosives, and scheduled for Survival Mode as well. The primary way to trigger them is some form of impact - meaning plenty of possibilities with the game's DesignItYourselfEquipment.

* ForScience: Currently the main reason to do things in the game. Not that it isn't enough.

''Scrap Mechanic'' is a {{Construction|AndManagementGames}}-Focused WideOpenSandbox game made by a Swedish developer Axolot Games. The game was originally inspired by the devs' work on a test UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} port of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}. Its main selling point is the ability to create moving machines of byzantine complexity, with any kind of shape and size you want, and potentially endowed with [[TransformingMecha massive transformation capabilities]]. The game was originally announced on the 4th of November, 2014, and was released into UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access a little over a year later, on January 20th, 2016.

Currently, the game supports Creative Mode with over a hundred different parts and grid-based "base materials" that can be stretched to any size and shape, bearings that can be used to build cars and transforming mechanisms, engines and seats to power and control vehicles, rocket thrusters for flying vehicles, controllers to program elaborate transformations, and a few other useful things. Later plans include a [[SurvivalSandbox Survival Mode]] with enemies, weapons, and consumables, bigger maps, a day and night cycle, bodies of water, tons and tons of new building parts, and other interesting things. The official page for the game [[http://www.scrapmechanic.com/ is here]].

* ActionSurvivor: In Survival Mode, you will start the game in a crashed starship that was taking you to the planet... and immediately break it down for parts to build yourself a vehicle.

* ConstructionIsAwesome: The primary appeal of the game. There's no combat in the initial version, but who needs combat when you can spent hours building incredible machines with your friends, and then drive or fly them around?

* CyberCyclops: The Farmbots seen in the debut trailer, as well as one of the Farmbot head types appearing in-game.

* GhibliHills: In the current build, ''[[SingleBiomePlanet the entire planet]]'' where the game takes place appears to be this. ZigZagged in regards to human presence - the humans aren't normally there, but the machines they have built are.

* MrFixit: You, of course. The game's Survival Mode will feature abandoned and/or non-functioning machinery throughout the world, which you will be able to fix or salvage for your own ends. But even in the game's Creative Mode, you often have to be the Mr. Fixit when [[BunglingInventor one of your own creations doesn't work as intended]] - in this case, if there's something you can't fix, the answer is generally to [[ExaggeratedTrope fix it harder]].

* OneProductPlanet: The planet on which the game's events happen is focused entirely on agriculture, with the primary source of parts in Survival Mode planned to be various farm equipment and logistical facilities.

* RobotUprising: The premise of the game centers around an uprising of agricultural robots on an automated farm world, and the protagonist(s) getting caught up in it after the ship taking them to the planet crashes. In the first Early Access version, however, the only robot presence in the game is on the radio, which they have taken over.

* SurvivalSandbox: The Survival mode wasn't implemented from the get-go in the 2016 release, with the game only having the Creative mode - but after a protracted development, it is finally planned for release in Q1 2020, with radically different/expanded gameplay.

* EdibleAmmunition: Your primary weapon is a potato air gun, and it will be on the player to find or grow potatoes to fire from it.

* SurvivalSandbox: The Survival mode isn't implemented yet, but it's in the cards for later releases.

* ComputerVoice: The Agribots on the in-game radio intersperse their music broadcasts with distorted statements in MachineMonotone - such as [[AC: [[RobotUprising "We-are-controlling-the-radio."]]]] and [[AC: [[YouCanRunButYouCantHide "We-will-find-you."]]]]

* NotTheIntendedUse: Invoked. The players are fully expected to do whatever they want with the available parts, rather just what the developers had in mind.

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: There are no pre-determined blueprints in the game. You can build vehicles from existing parts in pretty much whenever shape you want, and the same goes for structures. An update on March 18th added a Paint Tool into the mix, letting you really run wild with the coloring of whatever you build.

* [[ForScience For Engineering!]]: Currently the main reason to do things in the game. Not that it isn't enough.

* [[invoked]] UncannyValley: [[InvokedTrope Used deliberately]]. [[http://www.scrapmechanic.com/news/devblog-7-is-here/ Devblog #7 shows]] some creepy Agribot heads - and the dev team makes no secret that they're ''supposed'' to be creepy.

* CyberCyclops: The Agribots seen in the debut trailer.

* WideOpenSandbox: Fulfills both definitions of the term. The end goal for the game is a massive semi-procedurally generated world, in which you can create whichever buildings and machines that you want.

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: There are no pre-determined blueprints in the game. You can build vehicles from existing parts in pretty much whenever shape you want, and the same goes for structures.

* DesignitYourselfEquipment: There are no pre-determined blueprints in the game. You can build vehicles from existing parts in pretty much whenever shape you want, and the same goes for structures.

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: There are no pre-determined blueprints in the game. You can build vehicles from existing parts in pretty much whenever shape you want, and the same goes for structures.