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Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Recycling Center Simulator is a first-person, simulation and management game
developed by Balas Games
and published by PlayWay S.A..
Released on October 02nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Turkish and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 2,040 reviews of which 1,814 were positive and 226 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Window 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6700k or AMD Ryzen 3 1200X
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 960 4GB or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☑ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ☐ Gay ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☑ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Multiplayer / Online }--- ☑ Offline ☐ Couch co-op ☐ Full of sweaty tryhards ☐ No friends required ☐ Only fun with friends ☐ Hacker fiesta ☐ Dead servers ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Rage Level }--- ☑ Calm and chill ☐ Mild controller-throwing ☐ Keyboard warrior activated ☐ Neighbors now know my vocabulary ☐ Broke my monitor, send help ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Cyberpunk 2077 ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☑ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 . .This is just my personal opinion, and opinions may differ from one person to another, and this is normal
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I recommend the game but be aware that the developers have not been thinking through the endgame. Once you have everything unlocked, including all trash collectors and you would like to get all achievements like the “Millionaire” achievement you will spend a lot of time simply doing nothing in game. Some examples: - You can unlock 8 trash collectors - But you also get maximum 8 assignments (in some days there are 9 available) so there is nothing for you to do, in all honestly picking up the trash is also boring after a while so I like to leave that automated. But here is the thing, even if you let the collectors collect the trash, they are gone from the minute you send them away until 15-16h in the afternoon (ingame time). On an average scale they bring back 100-120kg per waste stream and this is where it becomes very boring because all you do is bring the sorted trash to your production lines and in minutes all of it has been processed. And trash collectors can only be sent out once per day. The ratio trash consumption versus trash collection has not been tested thoroughly. Especially when producing hybrid components, you need a lot of input to build not so much output. I often find myself just waiting until I can go to sleep and fast forward the game to the next day and stack up some trash. The biogas “DLC” which was introduced for free is something I don’t understand at all. It costs 40k in game currency to build the biogas digester and the return on that investment is very low. Sure, I enjoyed the game and that is also why I recommend it but once everything is unlocked the game is a very long draggy game to achieve 100% achievements and their discord is as good as dead.
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Hey, you. Yeah, you. You already know if you like this kind of game. Lets be real here. You played truck simulators, and farm simulators, and supermarket simulators. You already know you enjoy it. Its rewarding, its a different form of medication for your (almost) crippling problems. And then you get to the end, and you stop playing it. And then you buy another simulator later. It's time. It is time to recycle. Just do it. You already have 20 other successful businesses that cost you your time and rewarded you only in dopamine. It's okay. It will all be okay. Just come on over and collect the garbage, make it into bars. You'll feel amazing. Just do it already, I'm waiting. Side note: actually no problems encountered, I got stuck once; there's an unstuck button. The game does not tell you a whole lot, so you'll need to either pay attention or look stuff up. The assistant will get you good deals, the sorters will save you from joint problems, and the trash collectors will turn a profit. When you get the robots , click "T" to mark the pallets you want to move. No crashes so far, no major bugs. The game is optimized like you put a squirrel on-top of a keyboard and told it, "get to work"; but the game runs regardless on mid-tier and lower-end machines.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Additional Notes: It's a fun, satisfying game with loads of potential. Some bugs need polishing out. A few bug bears are using the sorting machine can be tedious as there is no way to see how much is left, occasionally when sorting and moving items quickly they "swap" what you're holding which causes you to put things in the wrong bin. The conveyors are a little bit buggy at times with the placement, occasionally not allowing placement. The very few bugs I've encountered aside, I've found for a small studio, attention to detail is key and in this game they have done just that. The little features in the game which seem small are very common, they increase immersion and general enjoyment massively. The optimisation of the game is brilliant, I encounter incredibly little frame rate drops, even when my machine area is packed full of loose products. There are a few features which aren't in the game which feels like there should be, being some staff to auto stack pallets, the ability to place custom pick-up/drop-off points for pallets for the robots, allowing them to pickup a stack of pallets. Some more upgrades to allow us to have more frequent scrap deals with upwards of 100KG of scrap to collect. Maybe some bigger car parks so we can take more calls along with staff to empty to sorter and fill the recycling machines automatically, allowing for further automation and gameplay potential/replayability. I think the ability to upgrade the machines would be a nice feature, maybe speeding them up or producing more product per cycle with a diminishing returns value to it so that those in the end game stages have more to strive towards. Also an open world style area where you can drive a recycling truck to collect rubbish could be a neat addition as I find myself spending a lot of time waiting around for my workers to return during the day as it can become repetitive doing the same collection tasks for scrap each day once your factory area is built. The factory building area of this game is very satisfying, the controls are visible and simple to remember. It's built in a quick and accessible manner where it was very easy to pick up and remember without constantly needing to think back to the tutorial on how to play the game. I think some further upgrades for passive scrap gain could be useful too as you only have the disposal boxes and the first level upgrade for it. An area which allows for more or for a more traditional "tip" as an upgrade would be a worthy feature. In conclusion: as a game released less than 6 months ago, it has an incredible potential with lots of game play and replayability. With few bugs and quite a long progression tree which doesn't feel overly grindy, a bit of polishing around the edges and some extra gameplay and passive gain will make this game a good scorer/competitor within the simulation category, and as a smaller studio it is very clear how much effort and care has gone into the development of this game. I've found myself unable to stop playing it since I brought the game. Well done developers, keep up the hard work. It is going great.
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I had a bug in late game. Sent my save file in discord to devs and they fixed in couple days. Incredible loyalty to their players!
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Recycling Center Simulator is currently priced at 17.99€ on Steam.
Recycling Center Simulator is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 17.99€ on Steam.
Recycling Center Simulator received 1,814 positive votes out of a total of 2,040 achieving a rating of 8.50.
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Recycling Center Simulator was developed by Balas Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
Recycling Center Simulator is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Recycling Center Simulator is not playable on MacOS.
Recycling Center Simulator is not playable on Linux.
Recycling Center Simulator is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Recycling Center Simulator. Explore additional content available for Recycling Center Simulator on Steam.
Recycling Center Simulator does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Recycling Center Simulator does not support Steam Remote Play.
Recycling Center Simulator is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Balas Games
Publisher
PlayWay S.A.
Release
02 Oct 2024
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