Games like My Recycling Center
If My Recycling Center is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator, Oil Rig Simulator and Pumping Simulator 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, comedic and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.

Players who liked My Recycling Center also play
Steam players who put hours into My Recycling Center also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Transport oversized cargo in a variety of missions across a 175km² open world. Drive customisable, highly detailed trucks through dynamic weather and day and night. The official cooperation with Gruber Logistics allows you to get behind the wheel of real-life heavy cargo transports.
Oil Rig Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Welcome aboard the oil rig, where daily challenges await around every corner. In this realistic simulation, you take on the role of an operator of one of the most technologically advanced structures in the world. This isn’t just a workplace – it’s your new life at sea.
SimulationSteam ↗Pumping Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, idle progression, casual and a cozy mood with My Recycling Center.
Third-strongest match for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich
Construction Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with My Recycling Center.
Ranked #4 for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.
Pharmacy Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, resource management, casual and a cozy mood with My Recycling Center.
Ranked #5 for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Experience a realistic pharmacy management experience with Pharmacy Simulator. Set up your shop, decorate it as you wish, and purchase over a hundred types of medications. Pharmacy Simulator offers you an incredibly realistic pharmacy experience. Prove your skills in a challenging economic system.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with My Recycling Center.
Ranked #6 for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
American Truck Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Returns Outlet Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, resource management, casual and a chill mood with My Recycling Center.
Ranked #8 for My Recycling Center fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below My Recycling Center at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under My Recycling Center on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Recycling Center.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from Darius Bode
Other recommendable Steam games by Darius Bode, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Garbage Truck Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with My Recycling Center.
Another title from Darius Bode, the studio behind My Recycling Center. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
The compactor is hungry! 3D simulation game with authentic trucks and realtime destruction physics. Fill the compactor with garbage and keep pressing the button until everything has been smashed. Drive the truck from one stop to the next and collect every pile of garbage from the streets.
Bus Mechanic Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with My Recycling Center.
Another title from Darius Bode, the studio behind My Recycling Center. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
In the Bus Mechanic Simulator you are in the position of an experienced mechanic. In your own bus garage you can maintain, repair, test and restore various true-to-original MAN bus models. Roll up your sleeves!
Demolition Pro Online
WHY THIS
Another title from Darius Bode, the studio behind My Recycling Center. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Start up the demolition excavator and use realistic tools to take down the buildings! This 3D demolition simulation lets you take care of destruction, cleanup and recycling. Work alone or in a team of up to 4 players and master the challenges in different jobs.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Construction Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with My Recycling Center.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with My Recycling Center.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
American Truck Simulator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with My Recycling Center.
Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Frequently asked about My Recycling Center
- Does My Recycling Center run on Steam Deck?
- My Recycling Center is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does My Recycling Center cost?
- My Recycling Center is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to My Recycling Center?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Recycling Center are Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator, Oil Rig Simulator, Pumping Simulator 2.
- Who developed My Recycling Center?
- My Recycling Center was developed by Darius Bode.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on My Recycling Center.
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