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Recycling Center Simulator
Developer Balas Games
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. From the Steam store page
187 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
61
Fresh
105 positive · 67 negative
95% range 54–68%
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15 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,558 of 2,980 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 187 · most liked firstA fun enough game but I don't recommend it in its current form. It gets very repetitive very quickly and the egregious use of generative AI is utterly immersion-breaking.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yes I completed it. I still don't recommend it. Way too repetitive. Doing the same boring thing over and over again until you earned all achievements and can finally stop playing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very simple executive order Trump could do to gain +20 with 18-35 men is to force Sony and Nintendo to ban slop on their game stores. It's insane looking through the catalogues, with hentai games on Switch (?!) and "Recycling Center Simulator" and "Life in [Airpot] Terminal Simulator" in PS store
unlabelledView post →Fun but end game is bad. Machines are not the same sizes and conveyors don't match, they are gridlocked and not flexible. Very anticlimactic.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was fun the first couple of hours, but there is no end-game concept in there. You just collect trash, create products, and then sell products. Keeps you engaged for a couple of hours, but then after some time there are no money-sinks, and the whole concept breaks apart.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks neat on first glance, but quickly shows a lack of passion on side of the developers. Also it cries AI-slop all over the place.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fun game with a decent progression system. This game uses AI art therefore it get a down vote until they use non-AI art.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was a really good game till I found out it has AI used content in-game, I unfortantely found out too late to refund and wish I could. Its very repeditive but was still fun and was happy to keep playing long after finishing i even wanted the DLC's but now not any more, make your own stuff, dont be lazy and use AI
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite possibly the worst conveyor system i have ever encountered in a game before. gameplay loop feels lacking once you get all of your tier one machines. upgrades are locked behind a reputation level system, creating the scenario where you have tens of thousands of dollars but nothing realistic to spend it on. Get the game on sale and enjoy the ten or twenty hours to beat it or get bored and move on.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →at first game was great then they added a DLC but now it's like the developer has just given up on the game been nothing for months
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is fun but please drop the AI art...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is meh, it's something you play for a few hours then wonder what your life has come to.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR FULL PRICE. My reccomendation is contingent on the fact i got it for about 5 bucks on sale. thats a better price point. 15 bucks is frankly insulting. its a pretty shallow job sim all things considered, but there is some novelty in slowly bringing order to chaos and I can think of few jobs that define that more than working in a recycling centre. trash comes in, your sort and refine it, products go out. The game is almost generic playway job sim. Unity…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shallow game, a few bugs (like not being able to fully clear a map of trash, products disappearing from conveyer belt), and developers ignore the community (like being able buy an upgrade to hold multiple large items). You play the game to buy more advance machines, so you can make money to buy more advanced machines... I know fun is subjective but this game got boring after the first 2 hours.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recycling Center Simulator hooked me for the first 10 hours thanks to my OCD, but once it turned out that the main progression is just bigger locations with more trash, the game stopped being interesting. Picking up garbage isn’t engaging enough to do it constantly, and there’s nothing to do on the maps besides collecting trash. So on the largest maps, I started sending workers, and I decided to focus on the sorting factory myself. But even there, I ran into disappointment. When planning the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoyed it on release, and let it cook for a little hoping for more. Got nothing but a paid DLC. Makes it hard to want to support indie developers like this going forward. Worth a buy if it's $5 and you like a short, mindless sim that won't get you many hours.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is interesting at the beginning, but very quickly the gamepay turns into a routine, which is to be expected for "work" simulators. The game suffers from low FPS, the longer I play, the fewer frames the game can handle even on good HW. Both ailments could be overlooked, but the developer decided to take content from the game and cram it into DLC, effectively forcing paying customers to buy the game multiple times, which is unacceptable for a game of this level. At its core, a good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Latest update made the game unable to launch for me. Devs have been radio silent about this bug, as online discussions have shown. Even on their dedicated Discord server I get zero answers or troubleshooting on how to get the game running again. Cannot recommend, as if you have this bug the game is literally unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just another run of the mill AI slop game. What they disclosed on the store page is only a portion of the actual AI content within the game. Par for the course for PlayWay games,sadly
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →what mouse bitten third world are we operating in WHERE YOU PAY PEOPLE TO CLEAN UP THEIR TRASH? if i pay for scrap and i show up to a dilapidated convenience store... brother i am NOT grabbing the FOOD refuse on the ground. i will be removing all the copper and every fixture and all the metal shelves and any furniture. you'd be lucky if i left the walls and roof. that said i do like this game. 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good early/mid game; falls apart at the end. If you like cleaning and/or job sims: 👍 If you like automation and/or conveyors: 👎 I enjoyed the earlier bits of the game where you run around various areas manually collecting scrap, processing it, and selling it basic items. That part is done well and honestly I got my money worth out of it, hence the positive review. The entire conveyor aspect however is barely usable. You can easily play most of the game without them though and for the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would have given it a good review for a simple game but the e-waste is in the game and you can't solve it without the DLC, which is scummy. The main game is incomplete and they make you pay for the full version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is becomes shallow very fast and going through the upgrades feels meaningless
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ran into what I would consider a game breaking bug after about 4 hours of gameplay that blocks you from being able to unlock one of the upgrades. After hours of research I learned that this bug has been reported repeatedly for over a year with no fix, to me this means the Devs don't care and are not worthy of your hard earned money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off, a word of warning to anyone who has trouble with any kind of head bobbing or view swaying. This game has it....while stationary and there does not appear to be anyway to turn this off. Secondly, the graphic settings seem to do hardly anything and despite it not being an "Ultra 4K HD Game" my computer sure thinks it is. Based on the sound of the fans you'd think I was playing Warframe or Grounded 2 on "High - Ultra/Epic" settings instead of Recycling Center Simulator at "Medium".…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Premis: You are a ghost that lives in a distopian future where the dead are put to work to empty the worlds gas stations, junkyards, train stations and depatment stores. Humans walk around playstation 2 graphics buildings of cardboard child forts envorioments. Dropping garbage just for you to collect to resycle into base parts sold to make money that can never be spent on anything more than making slightly more complicated items. what if sadisfactory felt lifeless and hollow and turned into a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know what it is about games like this but it's so relaxing to play. I have so much more to do but I can't stop. Have to close the game and do other things? Do I really hmm naaa back to it I go. Sorting trash is way more fun then I expected. Totally recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is pretty good overall, but I wouldn't recommend playing it for the 100% like I did. Multiple problems arise when you start to hit the endgame : - The game has potential, but a lot of it is wasted by the developer's lack of vision for the game, or organisation. - The endgame is tedious. It's just, waking up, taking scrap deals, sending your workers there, then waiting 5 minutes for the game to give you the option to sleep ("It's too early" at 10am, but 12pm is appropriate to go to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend this game. The game play is fairly repetitive, though, well-paced. You unlock things quickly enough, and build your factory; but you very very quickly run out of things to do. There's nothing to do once you build the factory except to pickup trash, sell stuff, and work on the factory some more. I really enjoyed the factory aspects, but you only get 10-20ish hours out of it. For its current price tag, its not worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First part of game is broken so don't buy as this game doesn't work. You can't leave the first scrapyard. There is no option and the truck doesn't work. So far this is the worst simultation game out there that I seen
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The satisfaction I feel when I play this game is insane, I got hooked on it after about 3 minutes of game time and it is well worth the grind because yes, as with all simulator games, it is very grindy (Though I don´t mind it at all). It runs somewhat smooth on my potato of a laptop and it gives me the nice little brain tingles when i pick up the trash due to the sound it makes. i would 100% recommend this game if you need to just unwind, relax and feel like recycling some trash
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today gamers, I present a cute simulation game with some automation in the end game. If y'all want a nice 20ish hour experience and need a new sim game, give Recycling Center Simulator a shot. steamcommunity.com/profiles/765... #indiegame #simulationgame #community #Steam #Unity
unlabelledView post →Game is fun at first but within 10 hours you can max out your progression with trying to clear locations. The game involves a LOT of clicking and aiming at the ground picking up trash. The only upgrades you can get to make this easier? You can increase your trash bag size from holding 10kg to 15kg to eventually 20kg. You can get a "waste radar" which helps you find the items better You can get a bigger truck, having more storage so you can hit more locations per day (funny enough, the bigger…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Main reason: YAG without Rebind keys: And devs even said: User: info 14 Jun, 2024 @ 10:19am Thanks for the feedback, we put Keyboard rebinding to our to-do list... Either a very long to-do list, or a very poorly optimized one. (could be he meant the Backlog List, of items that they "think about" but never gets implemented) Either way 2 years later still not implemented. Considering that the game only use like 6 keys and 2 mouse buttons. the job to implement it, using Unitys rebind…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A combination of cleaning, management and automation. But does everything of it just half as good. Is fun for the first couple of hours, but lacks a lot of options you find in other games to be still enjoyable in the lategame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ 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 ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not an automation game at all, just another business simulator. The sorting process would have a huge potential for automation but in this game it is just one worker doing the job or yourself manually. Too much point and click, no funny part or random events. You might enjoy it if you like games such as supermaket simulator, but if you are looking for the industrial automation etc. this game is not for you. It is very repetitive and the upgrades you will get will not change the gameplay so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While this is a fun game in its simplistic, yet expansive nature, the game is unoptimized which makes late-game mechanics, like conveyers, suspectable to significant lag and frame loss. I respect this game as a repetitive but progressive grind, but I cannot recommend it with the performance bugs and issues which makes "helpful" tools more tedious in the end.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It can be a very enjoyable game and have played it for dozens of hours. However, the game has occasionally crashed on me and I can't recover the saved game and have to start all over. Great game but I cannot recommend it because of the saved games being unrecoverable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game gets extremely tedious after a time, and I wish I would've seen the AI disclosures before purchasing last year. This game has the potential to be a lot more fun, and if they removed the AI and replaced it with Human made artwork and changed the sorting minigame so I stop getting carpal tunnel, I'd change my review to positive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game isn't neccesairly bad, and therefore is somewhere in the middle of unrecommended and recommnded. It's good for the first ten hours or so; collect trash manually, organise and mold into sellable crap people want. Hire people to do the work for you while you sit on the sidelines and count all of your cash like Mr. Crabs. However, it becomes rather repeteive and ultimately has no satisfying end goal. I would have enjoyed being able to use my money for more than more machines and upgrading…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7 out of 10 pro; - rewarding mini games at the start of the game - nice management system - nice amount of different items you can produce. con; - a few bugs that doesnt seem to be getting fixed. Nothing game breaking but annoying. - end game is bit slow and boring Overall i enjoyed the game, took about 35 hours to 100%. Hope it will recieve some more love from the developers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I kept playing this game to see if it got better. It didn't. The game loop is: Do boring repetitive task > Earn money > Buy upgrade to stop having to do boring repetitive task. And you can't get out of doing all the boring tasks. You start off having to pick up trash and sort it manually. I did them and grinded money to get an employee who would sort the trash. Then I employed a trash collector so I didn't have to do that. I began to focus on running the machines and storage area.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After finishing the achievements i can now say that its not worth it it is fun for the first couple hours, cause that is when the most progression happens Once you've collected stuff from the same looking gas station 20 times or opened a chest with the crowbar many a time you will see that there in fact isn't more game to be discovered. You will check for new contracts, order your people, collect some trash, sort it for a miniscule bonus, put the trash in the machines BY HAND and wait.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not perfect. Some bugs. Overall was addictive and enjoyable for me. Endgame is a little lacking. Ended up 100%ing it and stopping once I found the endgame lacking. Definitely worth it when on sale for a mixed manual/automated recycling business game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's literally just point & click. But the adventure is completely missing. By far the worst sim i've played so far.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have invested a lot of time in this game. One of things I enjoyed was frequent updates and the ability to make suggestions and see them in the game. Please bring that back. I would love to be able to make conveyers from the lvl 1 machine entrance to the sort machine. (Maybe also be able to feed the machine and as it fills a bin it sends the filled container to the machine)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my top 5 Simulator games, It looks basic you run a recycling facility and yes you do..you also build the production lines, barter for rights to collect matterial from local buildings that you then go to in your truck and collect all the trash and for the first while you sort the matterials by hand via a little mini game. As you progress your factory grows and you get employees to help you sort trash and even a fleet of trucks to go out and collect trash for you allowign you to get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought I'd love this game because I really enjoyed Parcel Sim, but its just didn't click with me. A lot felt thrown at you at once, and using the pallet jack made me nauseous.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun at first but sorting the rubbish becomes very very repetitive, some QoL of changes and this game would be way better. I would share what I think but it seems many of consumers already have an no updates, so there's no point.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has technical issues: torch does't work properly, shadows and lighting sometimes look weird and items noclip without a reason. Some of the map desingns are also frustrating. On the otherhand, progression system and related mechanics are great. Starting slow and gradually becoming more efficient feels genuinely rewarding. The game has enough content to keep you engaged even after 37 hours :). Solid 6/10 game that I can recommend people who like simulator games or anyone looking for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Snapping and other issues not fixed for a whole year, then they release a small update as a DLC to grab some more money. Well, not from me, I'm out..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its overall a fun game but do wish the dev would add more features for normal players and modding
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is not for everyone thats why there are some negative reviews The game is on par graphics wise with most sim job games out there game play yes its simple go in clean out a job site and bring it back and work the product and sell it for profit that is really all a recycler does they just took out the boring bits like writing up work orders filing for insurance vehicle wear and tear lol the job in real life isnt much more than this in a nut shell can it be seen as tedious to some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could have been fun. Could have had promise. But they decided instead of paying an artist, that they'd use a planet destroying theft machine to make their assets. Gross.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🎮Recycling Center Simulator - Day 5 🙋♀️Feel free to stop by and say Halo! 🔴Live Now on Twitch, Kick and YouTube: www.twitch.tv/angel #gamer #playing #Vtuber #adhd
unlabelledView post →A good game that you can turn your brain off and collect scrap that you then turn into useable products to sell to companies. There is also an automation side to the game with being able to set up your own machines a long with conveyor belts and even staff too that I really enjoy. There is a lot more to it than most other Simulator games with it not being a Selling Simulator. Suggestions: Trash Collectors - Even with having the highest tier of collectors you still can not give them two…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game is constanly crashing. will be 5 mins in to a job and it freezes up
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed the early game. Would definitely say it hooked with just the right dopamine drip going on. I'm currently grinding out the last achievement because it's not far off. I'm tired of running around sites to collect garbage, so just waiting for my drivers to do it. Wish I could keep hiring drivers, but it tops you out at 8. I've got $300k with nothing to spend it on. Would be great to be able to scale hellu in the late game. Would like to quickly add how much the early and mid game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recycling Center Simulator - Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage and improve your factory. Trailer: keymailer.co/RecyclingCen... Creator: keymailer.co/RecyclingCen... Press: game.press/RecyclingCen... #RecyclingCenterSimulator
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