Watashi Games
The Steam page is live
Jank Yard now has a Steam page, which means you can finally wishlist the thing we've been quietly building. It is a chaotic online party game built around one loop: every challenge needs a different vehicle, so you build one out of bricks, send it, and watch it come apart.
The pitch is three words long: Build it. Jank it. Send it. You bolt a vehicle together out of bricks, wheels, boosters and whatever else is lying around, you line up at the start with your friends, and you find out whether you built a rocket, a wrecking ball, or a pile of parts that hasn't realised it yet.
If that sounds like your kind of nonsense, the wishlist button is the single most useful thing you can click. More on why below.
Build any vehicle out of bricks
The building system is snap-and-go: grab blocks, wheels and bolt-on parts, and stick them together. It takes about ten seconds to learn and considerably longer to stop abusing. A sleek little racer is a perfectly valid build. So is a six-wheeled monster truck. So is a spiked battering ram with a lawn chair welded to the roof.
There is one hard rule — your creation needs a seat, because somebody has to drive it — and after that the game mostly stays out of your way. Wheels, ramps, boosters and wings are all fair game, along with a lot of questionable structural decisions that the physics engine will happily let you make.
Your ride also carries its own damage. Parts are individually breakable, so a rough landing leaves a mark, and a really bad one leaves a debris field. Building something that survives the course is a genuinely different problem from building something that goes fast.
Then send it down something enormous
The courses are built for speed, big air and total disaster. There is a fifty-step staircase roughly the height of a building that turns any pack of cars into a tumbling avalanche of loose bricks. There is a mega-ramp long-jump where you drop, build speed, hit the kicker and try to land something — anything — on the far island.
There is a demolition joust, where two vehicles launch head-on at each other and the winner is whoever sheds the fewest parts. There are hill climbs, balance beams and a derby arena where the goal is simply to still be on the platform when everyone else isn't.
Everything runs on real physics, so no two crashes play out the same way. That is the entire joke, and it holds up: somebody always eats it at the worst possible moment, and it is always funny.
Best played loud and crowded
Jank Yard is an online multiplayer party game, and it is at its best with a full lobby of people making bad decisions simultaneously. Rounds are short, the comedy peaks are frequent, and losing is usually funnier than winning.
You can also dress the part. Your little builder gets party hats, crowns, shades and more, and your vehicle gets painted whatever loud colour you like. If you are going to wipe out spectacularly, you may as well do it in style.
Why wishlists matter this much
Here is the honest part. Watashi Games is a very small studio, and we do not buy ads. Everything we have shipped has found its audience organically — our AI colorization tool grew to steady revenue on search traffic alone, with zero ad spend.
On Steam, the equivalent lever is wishlists. Wishlist count is one of the strongest signals Valve uses to decide whether a game gets surfaced in front of players who have never heard of it, and it drives the launch-day visibility that decides whether a small game gets a real shot. For a studio our size, a wishlist is genuinely more valuable than a retweet.
So if the idea of a brick monstrosity disintegrating in mid-air makes you smile: wishlist Jank Yard on Steam. It costs nothing, it takes one click, and it materially changes how many people ever see the game.
If you want to follow along more closely — playtests, build screenshots, and the occasional physics bug too good to fix — the Watashi Games Discord is where that happens. See you in the yard.