Off By One Games' Raccoon Co-Op Trash Day Launches With Six Zones of Wagon Chaos

Six raccoons, one shopping cart stacked with scavenged trash, and absolutely no plan that survives contact with a hill. That is the pitch behind Trash Day, the debut game from San Diego and Flagstaff studio Off By One Games, which launched in full on Steam on October 13 after a demo-only run at Steam Next Fest, arriving with five new zones, a 22-song licensed soundtrack, and a launch discount running through October 27.

From Rocket League to Raccoon Physics

Off By One Games was founded in 2023 by Jared Cone, Corey Davis and Travis Wright, a trio who spent nearly a decade building Rocket League before striking out on their own. The studio's own site puts it plainly: after years on one of the biggest physics games ever made, the three wanted to be "a small, focused team again." Trash Day is the result, and it trades Rocket League's precision for a game built around things going hilariously wrong on purpose.

"We knew it would be impossible to follow up Rocket League, so we made a game about raccoons collecting garbage," co-founder Corey Davis said when the project was first revealed back in March. The team of up to six players takes the role of a raccoon crew breaking out of Animal Control, hijacking a wagon, and dragging it home loaded with whatever junk they can cram in along the way.

Steering that wagon is the whole game. Someone pushes, someone steers, and someone is usually convinced the plan was working fine until everyone else got involved. Players rig up bungee cords and loose planks to haul the cart past traffic, bear traps, rockslides and a river, while climbing, scurrying and snacking on whatever food they find scattered around each level.

What Changed Since the Demo

Trash Day isn't walking into launch cold. A free demo ran during June's Steam Next Fest and ranked among the 50 most-played demos out of roughly 4,400 on the platform, picking up more than 600 Very Positive reviews and over 300,000 wishlists in the process. Off By One Games has said the bug reports from that demo kept the team busy through the summer, and the studio has been candid that player feedback directly shaped how the final game handles.

The demo only let players explore a single area. The full release adds five more, stretching from the Animal Control compound where the story begins out to a sprawling Junkyard, each with its own hazards, shortcuts and trash worth hauling home. Earning money from those runs lets players spend it on raccoon gear back at the den, giving the loop a light progression layer underneath the chaos.

A Content ID-Free Soundtrack

One detail the studio is pointedly calling out: Trash Day ships with 22 licensed songs, led by a band actually named Forkroot and a track from a group called TRASH DAY, and all of it is cleared to be streamed and recorded without triggering copyright claims. For a game built to be clipped, streamed and played loudly with friends, that's a deliberate bet on the game spreading through word of mouth rather than marketing spend, and it mirrors how physics party games like Moving Out and Content Warning have found their audiences in the past.

Built for Six, Playable Solo

Trash Day scales down as easily as it scales up. The wagon can be hauled by a single raccoon working every angle alone, though the studio clearly built the systems with a full crew in mind: achievements, cloud saves and both full and partial controller support are in from day one, alongside DualSense-specific features for players on PlayStation controllers hooked up to a PC. Steam Cloud keeps progress synced across machines, and Family Sharing is enabled for households splitting one copy between multiple players.

Getting the Wagon Home

Trash Day is available now on Steam for Windows at $7.99, discounted 10% to $7.19 through October 27, with support for up to six-player online co-op. There's no word yet on console ports, and the studio hasn't detailed how long it plans to keep adding zones post-launch, but the jump from one demo area to six at launch suggests Off By One Games is treating this as a platform to build on rather than a one-and-done release.

“We knew it would be impossible to follow up Rocket League, so we made a game about raccoons collecting garbage.”Corey Davis, co-founder, Off By One Games

For a three-person studio's first game after a decade spent on one of the industry's most successful sports titles, Trash Day is a deliberately smaller, scrappier swing. Whether it has the staying power of its predecessor remains to be seen, but 300,000-plus wishlists and a packed Next Fest slot suggest plenty of players are ready to find out exactly how badly they can mess up a trash run with friends.

Off By One Games' official Trash Day launch trailer, posted October 13, 2026.