New to the dump? Start with the Beginner Guide for an order of actions. Already collecting? Pick the system you need below: gameplay, progression, cards, exploration or troubleshooting. Each guide distinguishes confirmed mechanics from community reports and practical advice.
Getting Started
Choose an action plan for your first session or an explanation of how the game systems fit together.
Beginner Guide
What to do first, what to keep, and which decisions can wait. Follow a practical starting sequence without a rigid upgrade build.
Explore topicGameplay Guide
Understand the core loop of searching, recycling, orders and collecting. See how card condition and recurring trash piles connect.
Explore topicProgression
Balance income, collection goals and character growth using confirmed mechanics, not promised farming rates.
Money Guide
Compare income sources and the reasons to keep or sell a find. Plan spending around upgrades and collection goals.
Explore topicUpgrades Guide
Separate character attributes from card quality upgrades. Check practical purchase priorities and the confirmed all-attributes milestone.
Explore topicCards
Use the Cards Hub for the collection overview, then open the guide for the specific card task in front of you.
Cards Hub
Browse the documented color sets and special card. Compare condition, repairs, duplicate exchanges and collection goals.
Explore topicCard Repair
Follow the five-fragment assembly workflow at the glue table. Keep repair separate from duplicate-card quality exchanges.
Explore topicFoil Cards
Understand foil collection goals and their relationship to cereal boxes. Drop rates and complete foil eligibility remain unconfirmed.
Explore topicCereal Boxes
Check the documented search and late-game purchase routes. Review the all-attributes requirement before budgeting for boxes.
Explore topicExploration
Track discoveries beyond the card collection, with evidence limits kept separate from player-reported routes.
Collectibles Hub
Choose a figurine, audiotape or secret-area guide. Separate confirmed collection milestones from community route reports.
Explore topicSecret Location
Review the official secret-area hint and the community-reported route. Check the caveats before attempting it.
Explore topicFigurines
Check confirmed figurine collection goals and relevant patch changes. Avoid treating random finds as a guaranteed location route.
Explore topicAudiotapes
Follow the confirmed audiotape collection milestones. See what is known without inventing an item-by-item location list.
Explore topicGame Help
Protect existing progress or find the official release before returning to the collection.
Save Not Working
Preserve the last good save, distinguish Cloud sync from local progress, and check documented save fixes before troubleshooting.
Explore topicWhere to Play
Find the official Steam listing, release information and Windows requirements. No unofficial download mirrors.
Explore topicGame Information
Check release, platform and studio facts, with access to the full PC requirements comparison and verified credits.
Explore topicUpdates
Review dated official changes to saves, cards and collecting. Distinguish released fixes from plans that still await confirmation.
Explore topicWorking toward completion?
Keep the Cards Hub beside your collection and use the achievements reference to check milestones. A money target, a complete color set and a foil collection are different goals; the relevant guides explain those boundaries instead of promising a single route that completes everything.