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My Recycling Center

Darius Bode · 2024-02-01

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IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Feb 01, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 26, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

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.

69%
positive of 642 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
1
Nexus mods (280 downloads)
3.56★
PlayStation Store rating (325 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 54 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 48,314 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 642 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.49 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
646420242026Week of 2024-02-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

23
achievements tracked
94.6%
earned "Pressefreiheit"
46.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing3 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2024-05-23, latest 2024-12-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)26711%23
PS5 (PlayStation)9720%25
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)8835%25

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DCasualEconomyPhysicsBuildingLife SimEducationRealisticManagementSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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