Getting to review Trash Goblin was a bit of a humorous process. As usually happens when something cute or cozy comes on our radar, Dayna Elieen will send it my way. I told her it looked cute and that I would review it. Time passed with nary a whisper from her, until one day she messaged our group for our bi-monthly Indie Spotlight that we would be crazy not to look at this. I reminded her I had already said I would look at it, and here we are.
But Trash Goblin left me with a somewhat conflicted feeling, one I haven’t really felt since Mika and the Witch’s Mountain. It made me start to think a little bit deeper about the whole “Cozy Game” genre and whether or not we should forgive these types of games for not really following the basic structure of video games.
There really isn’t much story to speak of in Trash Goblin, and this is more or less by design. You play as a goblin running a shop where you resell items you find in the trash. There are little bits of... Read more