My Recycling Center
Operate, configure and expand your own recycling center in this first-person simulator! Work fast and sort the trash. Use the compactors to destroy the bulky waste. Earn satisfaction and cash to buy new containers and unlock new trash types. Use the second hand shop to sell re-usable items.
My Recycling Center is a simulation, life sim and realistic game
developed and published by Darius Bode.
Released on February 01st 2024 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and German.
It has received 470 reviews of which 340 were positive and 130 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 10.46€ on Steam and has a 30% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 or newer
- Processor: multi-core CPU Intel Core i7-920 2,66 GHz or similar AMD
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD RX 580, 4 GB VRAM
- Storage: 7 GB available space
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Very addicting game, great game to play while listening to a podcast or just taking a minute to chill. Needs more content for the base game or at least discount the DLC in the steam store heavily. Would recommend.
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It kept me occupied for hours, so I would that it is a pretty decent games. OF COURSE there are bugs and other things that could be improved, but it seems like the dev has been releasing pretty frequent updates, so I have high hopes for what there is to look forward to in the future. SUMMARY Customers bring you items to put in their respective containers. Put them in the correct one and to earn cash, put them in the wrong one and do not gain or lose anything. Upgrade your operation to be able to sort even more items, some even having their own storage containers, such as chemicals. Upgrade your compactors to make them faster, power wash your containers to earn support from customers, and buy upgrades for the containers to color them or make them more efficient for your use. Continue upgrading your operation and make more cash. I don't have the container truck DLC, so I cannot say whether it makes the game better or not. PROS - Realistic dumpster mechanics, especially the compactors. I really like how the trash crumbles or gets smashed, especially the wood and bulk trash items. - Variety of containers to choose from, each one even works best for different items. I do not recommend putting appliances in a compactor, though. - Many features, like the ability to resell items later in the game, operate the compactors, and upgrade your operation to sort out even more items. - The variety of items to sort and the amount of models there are, each one being pretty detailed and having its own way of breaking into pieces or getting crushed. - Many more pros that I probably forgot, but you get the idea. CONS - A very annoying bug. Every time you enter the shop, it auto saves and takes about 10 seconds to do so. This freezes your game and you cannot do anything until it saves. Again, this happens EVERY TIME YOU ENTER THE SHOP. I believe it takes a while because it saves all of the trash in your containers, but it is probably one of the most annoying things I experience in this game. Though it is better than losing two hours of progress, I suppose. - Very repetitive game once you unlock all of the material types, but I still play it so it can't be that bad. I am sure there are many more features being worked on at this time. - If you don't have the new Container Truck DLC, you are confined to the space of the yard. You cannot leave it. I guess it is a recycling game based in one location, so it wouldn't make sense to leave it. - Sometimes the trash gets stuck in tight spots and you get penalized for not putting it in a container. It doesn't happen very often, though. - Besides putting the materials in their containers and operating the compactors, there really isn't anything else to this game besides adding more materials. Compactors never get damaged, No maintenance to any of the containers. All you have to do is empty them. I'm sure more features will be added soon. - Other buildings outside of the yard could be better quality, but I think everything that the player interacts with is fine. I experience almost no lag while playing, and my computer is probably medium-grade. OVERALL RATING I don't have any major complaints, it kept me occupied for a while and I loved it. I have a strange taste of games, I prefer simulator ones. Somehow, I stumbled across this one, and I'm glad I did. The developer seems active, so I will just sit back and see where this game heads to. I think it has a bright future ahead and a has an opportunity to be a great game if it continues getting worked on and more features are added. It has bugs. Some things I hope get fixed. This game has been out for about 4 months, so I will give it some grace. I think this game should be given a shot, if you are not interested before 2 hours, simply return it. I recommend buying this game.
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Review after hitting 100% achievements. Solid Simulator! Played the game for 10 Hours and just got all the achievements. Can't wait for future updates on this game, and new achievements to get challenged again to do more work within the Recycling Center!
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Let me start off by making this clear: I had trouble deciding whether or not this would be a game I recommend. While I have ticked on Steam that I recommend this game, I'm honestly in the middle right now as to whether or not MRC is worth it or not. Read my review and decide for yourself. This game is in a very interesting place right now, which makes my review a true 50/50 in terms of how I feel. My Recycling Center joins the other long list of simulation games I've played and enjoyed. I've been waiting and waiting for someone to make a good garbageman/waste center styled game, and while MRC is fun, it still has a long way to go. I only recently found out about this game and was very surprised it wasn't in Early Access, because there's still so much about this game that feels unfinished and unpolished. For starters, there's nothing in game which explains how certain things work. When you initially start, you're given a brief tutorial, but that's it. There's nothing that says how extra fees work, you have to learn it on your own through trial and error. On that same note, you have to pay in-game money to see what items go in which trash bin, and you have to do this every single time. This results in you being forced to start writing each and every item down and where they go on a piece of paper irl or a notepad on your computer. This isn't fun, and is frustrating. The fee to see where something goes needs removed. There's also an annoyingly consistent cutscene. When a vehicle first arrives at your recycling center, it honks (side rant: the constant honking is extremely obnoxious! I've already made a thread in the forum asking for an option to turn that volume off, no response) and you have to go open the gate for it. The gate opening, and the car driving in is a cut scene. Initially, it's whatever, but the longer you play, the more annoying it gets. The cutscene needs to be removed and instead the car driving into the recycling center should be something that happens in real time. Also, regarding the gate, you have to manually open the gate for each vehicle. There is an upgrade option for remote control gate opening, but it's still annoying. There needs to be another upgrade option so the gate opens automatically for cars. Something that I was disappointed by, trash in containers is not persistent between sessions. For example, if you have a bin with 4 bags, leave the game and come back, those bags are gone. This makes it incredibly hard to fill up most containers, and ruins the immersion of it. Trash in bins needs to be persistent. There are compacting bins which you need to activate. They are SO SLOW and obnoxiously loud! Multiple times it felt like the bins were on for at least a minute or two, and all the while you're hearing this obnoxious sound of the compactor. Don't get me wrong, I love the sound of compactors, but when you're forced to hear it for several minutes throughout, the entire session you play, it gets very annoying. Further, I wanted to mention that you can only have one customer/car loaded in at a time. There's no option for AI to line up and wait their turn. When you're done with a car, you have to wait for the next. It'd be extremely good for the game if cars could form a line, and come in konga style. When we finish a car, another drives up, when that's done, another comes. Essentially endless customers with little to no downtime. Finally, I wanted to talk about the developer. I have a long history of working with Indie developers and getting to know them and how they operate. I've also learned a thing or two about the industry, and, as a gamer and customer, I have a very good idea about what will help a game succeed. As it stands now, the developer is mostly distant from his community. He barely responds on Steam and doesn't have a Discord. Let me be clear, that is not meant as an insult or jab at the dev, this is my observation. It'd help him immensely if he was more interactive and transparent. Discord would also be a huge, huge help. (Dev, please feel free to add me. I have experience and can help you in this area.)
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Overall not a bad game, but not something I would pay for a full price, which I didn't. Most likely will refund. I had a big hype waiting for this game to come but like 20 minutes in, everything ibecame repetitive. Content wise, not much to do. You literally just recycle things. I don't think I'll sink much time into it. You can paint some stuff, add stairs and a sign to your machines/skips. You can cart around small items in a wheelbarrow or trolley. And, of course, you recycle. The good: Physics is well made, stuff crumbles when it's compacted, awesome to watch. Trolleys! Can cart around small objects, tho max you can fit in the wheelbarrow is probably 4 before everything flies off. The bad: Customer gives you $10 per item placed inside a machine or bin. A bag of garbage? $10. Piano? $10. Pallet? $10. Charges. We can give a charge out to a pillow, but not on a moldy crusty mattress or couch? Want a hint? The only hint you get is what item goes where, and the hints cost $10, and you get $10 per item. You make nothing if you use a hint. The grievances: The game doesn't give you any tips short of how to move around, open the gate, pressure wash and how to get tips to recycle. Doesn't give you any hint on how to empty the containers, what type of container is best to be used for which type of trash, and doesn't tell you not to leave stuff on the floor, everything must be put inside of a container or else you lose reputation, money and the item itself, even if the item does not fit inside the machine as it's compacting or whatever. The rotating. Visualise yourself holding a long object. You would point it away from your body to fit it inside of a container. Can you do that in this game? With a carpet? Yes. With any other bulky object? No, You're forced to rotate it clockwise, and launch it hoping it goes in.
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Online players
45
Developer
Darius Bode
Publisher
Darius Bode
Release
01 Feb 2024
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