Flipping is Hard areas in the Trashlands

The Trashlands is ten areas stacked on top of each other, built from oversized 1990s and 2000s junk. The studio names the first four: The Storm Drain, Cardboard Fort, The Playground, and Candyland. Its front page also lists themes for a toy chest, a neon grid, a freezing fridge, a blanket fort kingdom, and a recycling core. The tenth area is deliberately unnamed. This page has no route maps.

Written and reviewed by Flipping is Hard Editorial Team · Updated 17 October 2026

The four areas the world page describes

Every area, the studio says, is something a kid in the 2000s would recognize, blown up, colorful, and not safe. The creator notes treat the first four as the part of the game that can be shown without spoiling the rest. The old demo covered the first three plus a bonus climb and ended at a place called The Final Cake. That demo is no longer on Steam.

1. The Storm Drain

This is where Flippy wakes. The world page says pipes, trash, and the first lessons in flipping. Jeff's banana peel and the closed drain are the story beat that puts him here. A store screenshot shows a phone on grass inside a rocky opening, with the climb visible outside and a Chill HUD already running. The press kit's store-shot list includes a frame it titles "L1 Cave." This guide does not claim the file names match one-to-one. The picture is consistent with a low, enclosed start.

A blue phone resting on grass inside a blue-gray cave, looking out toward trees and a distant structure. — Steam store screenshot from a Chill build. The scene is a rocky opening rather than a labeled map title, so it is not captioned as a confirmed area card.

2. Cardboard Fort

The world page calls this a military camp of boxes, tape, and plastic army men, with a drill sergeant waiting. That sergeant is Toy Soldier. A Steam screenshot shows him beside a camouflage phone, with the on-screen lines "TOY SOLDIER" and "Welcome to your final challenge, Private!" The world page places him in Cardboard Fort and calls his challenge a hard one. "Final challenge" in that line fits a drill sergeant's trial. It is not described here as the game's final boss. The press kit says a final boss exists and asks that it not be spoiled. This page follows that request.

A green toy soldier stands beside a camouflage phone. Dialogue reads: Toy Soldier, Welcome to your final challenge, Private! — Steam store screenshot. The dialogue box names Toy Soldier and prints his greeting. The world page places him in Cardboard Fort.

3. The Playground

Wooden towers, slides, and planks. The world page says this is where difficulty takes its first big step up. Three early characters are placed here: Muddy, a rude virtual pet in a mud pile who calls Flippy "Brick"; Beamer, a former climber stuck in the Help Beam pose; and Microwaver, who is fused inside a teleporting microwave, explains an elevator, and calls Flippy "Kid."

4. Candyland

The world page says sugar-coated terrain, chocolate rivers, and a gingerbread rave. A store screenshot shows a blue phone in a small hat on a brown cliff above a pink, candy-like landscape, with gingerbread-style houses far below. A Wand Report review adds swinging lollipops, jelly sweets, and one account of a chocolate river that did not immediately swallow the writer. That is one reported fall, not a safety rule.

A blue phone wearing a small hat on a chocolate-colored cliff above a pink candy landscape and tiny gingerbread houses. — Steam store screenshot of a sugar-colored landscape. It matches the studio's Candyland description of sugar, chocolate, and gingerbread. The shot itself has no area title burned in.

Themes above Candyland, without a walkthrough

The world page stops after Candyland and says the six areas above it are for players to find. The studio's front page is slightly more open. It lists the stack as a storm drain, a cardboard army camp, a playground, Candyland, a toy chest, a neon grid, a freezing fridge, a blanket fort kingdom, a recycling core, and one area it refuses to name. Those middle themes are public. Layouts, names, and the order of tricks inside them are not, and this page does not reconstruct them from screenshots.

Published theme	What is safe to say
Toy chest	Named as a theme on the studio front page. No layout is published here.
Neon grid	Named by the studio. A store screenshot shows phones beside a glowing wireframe tower. A review mentions neon pipes. Neither source draws the route.
Freezing fridge	Named by the studio. A review describes icy platforms. A store screenshot shows phones on pale platforms in a cold blue room.
Blanket fort kingdom	Named by the studio. A review mentions the sound of sofa cushions there. No route.
Recycling core	Named as a theme. No further public description is used here.
Final area	The studio says it is not spoiling this one. It stays unnamed.

Several brick phones float beside a glowing teal wireframe tower in a dark green space. — Steam store screenshot of a neon wireframe climb. The studio lists a neon grid among the upper themes. The shot is not a map.

Two brick phones on icy platforms in a blue room, with a bright beam between the lower phone and the space above. — Steam store screenshot. Pale platforms and a cold blue room fit the published freezing-fridge theme. A beam is also visible, which the co-op page discusses as a help tool rather than as an area route.

Hazards the press kit lists, without locations

The press kit says the ten areas introduce hazards, and its feature list counts 26 interactive mechanics. The named examples are boost pads, cannons, ziplines, swinging hooks, magnets, fans, hammers, breaking rings, hidden paths, ice, snow, and reverse gravity. A store screenshot shows a cannon launching several phones. That confirms a cannon exists in the public art. It does not say which area owns it, so this page does not assign one.

The same list is a better fit for the movement page than for a level order. Falls are the cost the store repeats: a small mistake, a big drop, ten areas, and the goal of reaching the top and reuniting with Jeff.

Early cast the world page is willing to name

Name	Where the page puts them	Published note
Flippy	The player character	Indestructible Flippia brick phone. Endless battery, in the studio's words. His aim is getting back to Jeff.
Jeff	Above the climb	Owner, about twelve. The world page says you do not see him during the climb. You hear him calling from far above.
The Narrator	Watching from the top	Voiced by Sir Captain. Warm, theatrical, and oddly keen for Flippy to stay.
Toy Soldier	Cardboard Fort	Drill sergeant with a hard challenge. The world page sums him up as "Sir, yes, Sir!"
Muddy	The Playground	Rude, slightly broken virtual pet in a mud pile. Calls Flippy "Brick."
Beamer	The Playground	A former climber stuck in the Help Beam pose, and upbeat about it.
Microwaver	The Playground	Fused inside a teleporting microwave. Explains the elevator. Calls Flippy "Kid."
Plonk	Secret	The game's original hero, a plank, replaced by a phone. The world page says he is hidden and sorry for himself. The press history says that plank was the playable character at a May 2025 prototype.

The world page says the rest of the cast is for players to find. A launch review names at least one character who is not on that early list. This guide leaves that name off, because the studio drew the line there. The NPC count is also unsettled: the Steam page says 16 NPCs with challenges, and the press kit says 18.

Area names past Candyland, puzzle solutions, boss patterns, and the ending are withheld on purpose. The studio asked for that. Screenshots elsewhere on this site are official store images, not labeled maps.

Co-op tools that show up in several of these shots are explained on the co-op page. How a miss is priced, in checkpoints or in distance, is on the tips page.