Gas Station

Gas Station takes about a minute to pick up: the controls come down to moving your character and clicking on objects — the game walks you through the rest.

1. Launch the game: open the page in your browser — nothing to download, no sign-up required, the game starts instantly.
2. Move around the lot: use W, A, S, D or the arrow keys; you can also drag your character with the mouse.
3. Clear the site: walk into junk piles and broken furniture to smash them — that is your first income, and cleared ground is where you build. Some junk is too heavy for now: it needs a higher character level.
4. Level up: your level goes up as you finish quests and put up new buildings, and each level unlocks heavier types of junk and wrecks you can break.
5. Set up your first pump: as soon as a road is clear, cars start driving up to it. More roads and more pumps mean more customers.
6. Keep the services stocked: snacks on the store shelves, drinks in the vending machines, paper in the restrooms — an empty service earns nothing, and a red icon over it means it needs a refill.
7. Work the garage: repair engines, install parts and restore beat-up cars — mechanic work pays noticeably better than fuel alone, and VIP customers pay a premium on top.
8. Turn junk into steel: junk gives scrap metal, and the recycler at the junkyard smelts scrap into steel for construction. Expand the junkyard to keep more junk spawning, and call in the tractor to level the whole yard in about two minutes.
9. Hire staff: employees do the routine work in your place, so the site keeps earning while you are busy somewhere else.
10. Clear a location to the last piece of junk: a fully cleared location upgrades and starts bringing in more money.
11. Use the map: fast-travel between the station, the garage, the junkyard, the car wash and the other locations instead of walking.
12. Reinvest the profit: upgrade tools, equipment and buildings, and tick off the daily and weekly quests for extra rewards — income accrues offline too, so every investment works around the clock.

On phones and tablets it works the same way: swipe to move your character, tap to interact with objects and the interface.

Gas Station is an idle tycoon about building a business out of a wreck: you inherit an abandoned station in the middle of a junkyard, and turning it into a thriving service hub is entirely down to you. You smash and clear the debris by hand, restore the ruined buildings, open the first pump — and cars start pulling in off the road. From there the site grows into a full service hub: a convenience store, a car wash, a tire shop and a garage where you repair engines and swap parts yourself.

Your character has a level, and that level decides what he is strong enough to break. The heavier junk piles and the rusted-out wrecks stay where they are until you rank up by finishing quests and putting up new buildings — so clearing the site and levelling up feed each other. Clear a location completely and the whole location upgrades: the same customers start paying noticeably more.

Money is not the only resource. Broken junk yields scrap metal, and the recycler at the junkyard smelts scrap into steel, which is what most of your construction needs. Smashed junk also drops items that give buffs and boosts. Customers need something to spend money on, so restocking is part of the job: snacks on the store shelves, drinks in the vending machines, paper in the restrooms. Staff can be hired to handle the routine for you, roaming traders show up to hand over or swap resources, and VIP clients pay a premium for service.

There is more than one site to run — the station with its garage, the junkyard, the car wash and others — all connected by a map you use to fast-travel between them. Profit keeps accruing while you are away from the screen. The game needs no installation and is free to play right in your browser.