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Casual recycling-center simulator from Balas Games, positioned for players searching for a recycling indie game. Published by PlayWay S.A. in 2024, it lists at $19.99 on Steam and has 2,494 reviews marked mixed with 0% positive.
Overview
Recycling Center Simulator is a 2024 Casual game developed by Balas Games and published by PlayWay S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 2,541 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Balas Games with publisher PlayWay S.A. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 69,000 to 160,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Recycling Center Simulator can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,541
Positive
86%
Steam appid
2928520
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.069K to 160K
units (median: 114K)
≈ $783K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 45 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Recycling Center Simulator at roughly 69,000 to 160,000 copies, with a median around 114,000, derived from its 2,541 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
9 observed days · window low $14.78Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.78 to $14.90. The tracked-window low was $14.78 on 2026-07-24.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Genres
CasualIndieSimulation
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Recycling Center Simulator sold?
- indielist estimates Recycling Center Simulator has sold between 68,607 and 160,083 units (median 114,345), derived from its 2,541 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Recycling Center Simulator?
- Recycling Center Simulator was developed by Balas Games and published by PlayWay S.A..
- Who published Recycling Center Simulator?
- Recycling Center Simulator was published by PlayWay S.A., developed by Balas Games. See PlayWay S.A.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Recycling Center Simulator released?
- Recycling Center Simulator was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Recycling Center Simulator have on Steam?
- Recycling Center Simulator has 2,541 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Recycling Center Simulator worth playing?
- Steam players rate Recycling Center Simulator 86% positive across 2,541 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Recycling Center Simulator can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Balas Games's other releases and PlayWay S.A.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Recycling Center Simulator sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Recycling Center Simulator page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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