Recycling Center Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $8.39, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2024. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 15.6h
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 58% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 51% ($9.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($8.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960 4GB or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.39, set in August 2026. It has been discounted 23 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 46 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $8.39 at 58 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 54 at list, 60 today.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Teddy's Haven ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Cafe Owner Simulator ($18.99, scores 11).
8 of the 689 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% start to 5% 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
Players
36 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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...
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...
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.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Recycling Center Simulator scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2928520/recycling-center-simulatorReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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