My Recycling Center
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.8h 15h to 100%
- Value
- $1.02/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 640 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (25% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD RX 580, 4 GB VRAM, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 11 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Recycling Center Simulator ($19.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator ($29.99, scores 9).
More about My Recycling Center
This site sampled 493 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 182 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 16 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
95% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
My Recycling Center is a hands-on simulation experience that places players directly into the everyday reality of running a small recycling facility, emphasizing physical interaction, routine labor, and gradual improvement over abstract management systems. Developed and published by Darius Bode, the game approaches its theme with surprising sincerity, transforming the often overlooked process of waste sorting into a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
it is a very good game the next dlc should be where we collect rubbish from the customer house the take to the recycling centre
Needs a lot of Improvement works to it, as looks like been rushed and threw out for sale, is it worth 6.39 sale price, or £12.79, right now NO, very grindy and buggy, as could do with in game text being a lot larger font, as struggle to read, no night and day concept, or ability to close the recycling centre no office from the start on site, just a converted shipping container, that doesnt even open, you have to...
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Cite this score
My Recycling Center scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2613060/my-recycling-centerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.