Selkie’s Salvage&Co. is an incremental game about fishing rubbish out of a drowned world, and it is honest enough to admit that shooting the rubbish also counts as grinding it down.

The planet is flooded. Your job is to clean it up, one piece of precious garbage at a time.

Chart credential: #5 on the Steam 250 weekly chart, scoring 8.23 from 413 reviews at 98% positive. Released 27 October 2026 by uglycoal.

Key features

Physics-based fishing, not a progress bar

It is first person and physical — you cast, you haul, the junk behaves like objects. Most incremental games abstract the action entirely so the numbers can run; keeping the verb tactile means the early game is fun before the multipliers arrive, which is where most of the genre loses people.

Grind garbage to buy faster garbage grinding

The loop is stated plainly on the store page and does not pretend to be anything else. Upgrades make fishing faster so you can afford upgrades that make it faster still, and new tools change how you do it rather than just how quickly.

Trinkets of the past

Relics hidden around the world grant game-changing bonuses, and Selkie catalogues them while mostly slacking off and watching you work. It is the exploration layer that keeps an incremental from being a single screen.

The honest read

413 reviews at 98% is a strong signal for a $6.79 game, but this is a small, focused incremental rather than a hundred-hour sink. Buy it for an evening or two of very satisfying cleanup, not as a forever game.

Windows only, single-player, with partial controller support.

Where to find Selkie’s Salvage&Co.

• Buy on Steam — $6.79 (15% off)
• A free demo is on the store page
• Windows only. Single-player, partial controller support, Steam Cloud

Frequently asked questions

What kind of game is Selkie’s Salvage&Co.?

A first-person, physics-based incremental fishing game about salvaging scrap from a flooded planet and upgrading your operation.

Is there a demo?

Yes, a free demo is available on the Steam store page.

How much does Selkie’s Salvage&Co. cost?

$6.79, discounted 15% from $7.99 at the time of writing.

Is it multiplayer?

No, single-player only.

Who made Selkie’s Salvage&Co.?

uglycoal, with Shady Corner Games co-publishing.