RECYCLE

You play as a garbage truck driver in a beautiful city which graphics remind me of OMSI 2. You are together with your AI helper which is not a very smart one, because you need to give him the order to execute any action. The game is very slow paced and the company trucks and workers are just numbers in the program because there is no "follow" option just to see what they are doing. Also, you drive the truck only in 3rd person and there isn't any other camera view other than a zoom in-out feature.
I am not sure if it is worth the full price, but the price on sale under 5 euros can be considered worthy by some standards.

RECYCLE is a good game with a variety of realistic aspects to it. I like the tycoon-style of this game and also like the working on the truck aspects where you can operate the features without a cut-screen or video of the function without actually controlling anything. Overall, the game is quite good and I would like to see perhaps a SEQUEL to this game or maybe an UPDATE.

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If you are using AMD, DO NOT INSTALL THIS GAME. This game not only does not work with AMD graphics cards it also breaks your GPU drivers. Installed this game to play with my brother, loaded up and found no textures load in. After some looking around it turns out the game isn't compatible with AMD graphics cards despite listing AMD on the system requirements.

Have tried to get a refund for the game from Steam but no luck. So uninstalled the game but started having issues with my system. Now had to use DDU to scrub and reinstall ALL of my GPU drivers. Looking online it seems a few other users have had similar issues after installing this game. I have still not been able to get a refund for the broken game.

Great game! It is a little old but still fun. You pick up garbage around the town and take it to the landfill or recycle plant. You also manage you funds at the same time and you can trash routes. Would recommend to people who love garbage trucks!

Really fun game, but ashame that there is no more update to this game... Would love to see some DLC or something for this game, I just don't want to see this game go to... well... Literal Dump.

This is one of the games that I found that is the most realistic trash truck simulator that I have ever played.

When I first came in to playing, I thought I wasn't going to like it very much. Now, garbage truck simulators can seem boring, but are one of my favourite games because I like repetitiveness. This game does look and feel older--which I like--but I know a lot of people would be turned away by it. However, it does have flaws and is a bit of a grind. I experienced a glitch where I got stuck in the side of the road, and took several minutes to get myself unstuck. However, there is a "Reset Vehicle" option. A very annoying glitch is that sometimes traffic lights get stuck at a certain signal, but can be on the next cycle.

It's a great game to relax and drive garbage trucks. Love it, even though it has a few glitches!

Might not be the best in graphics but the gameplay and the management are super!Easy to understand and as a bonus an awesome soundtrack!PS- i love the routes by the sea and river

Actalogic / UIG actually made a decent game? Yikes. Recycle no longer has their name on the store page but it was indeed a product of theirs. This is nothing like their other titles, it runs fine for the most part and has lots of content...along with minimal bugs.

You start out with one company base and a single garbage truck, and probably will do routes yourself until you expand a little more. Trucks are driven with WASD, followed by using an overlay to order your guys around for grabbing bins and dumping them. Your routes can be planned down to their pickup days as well as what garbage types you wish to gather. As you progress you'll rake in enough cash to buy and manage landfills as well as processing facilities like incinerators or recycling plants. Admittedly this might sound kind of boring but it's actually pretty relaxing if played while listening to a podcast or music as it's fairly hard to go bankrupt unless you're super careless.

Now there are a few bugs, but they're mostly minor. One broken achievement, this tracks correctly in-game but refuses to unlock on Steam. Every now and then your landfills will look empty of refuse but magically fill back up the next day. Two traffic lights I know of tend to freeze rather than cycle properly, often causing fines if you don't notice and roll through their intersections. Last but unfortunately most prevalent, intermittent lockups caused by Autosaving - no crashing here thankfully, but this does get a little irritating.

I picked this up years ago for 50% off, considering it regularly goes for 80% off during the larger sales now you might as well wait and pick Recycle up for a song. It's a solid management sim with a nicely detailed city to do garbage runs in if direct control's more your thing.

The game may seem great, but the novelty wears off quickly, as for the graphics? they`re far from perfect, and from a game that was made in 2012, when windows 8 was out, i`m appalled by this games graphics, the game also has a tendency to crash every once in a while, out of which is quite annoying, thankfully the game does`nt take long to load.

Despite being £8.99 it for me is`nt worth it, although many may disagree, this is my personal opinion, please feel free to tell me what your opinion of this game is.

I would say this game has the right idea. Way to costly and lacks a lot of fun features. It's not as entertaining. Landfill management is dry. The game is not worth 12 dollars. I would say around 3 dollars at max.

This is actually more fun and in depth than I expected. I haven't found any bugs either. Plays well for me. I recommend if you think you would be into a slow paced game like this.

The only complaint I have is that you cannot use a controller to drive the trucks.

When I first set eyes on this game ‘Recycle – Garbage Truck Simulator’, I had absolutely no idea what I’m going up against. Yes, it’s a garbage truck simulator however what the heck do you do besides hauling garbage? So, I played the guessing game and my conclusion is not much – that is there’s no real replay value. However, it turns out that there’s plenty of things to do like hauling garbage with different types of garbage trucks (small / large / crane), manage your landfill with three vehicles being the crawler, truck and bulldozer and, of course playing the role of a garbage manager. So, to my surprise, it’s a decent game however the user-inference and a game crippling bug can make you toss this game into the tip (excuse the pun).

Because there’s no real ending to this, you can literally go on forever however I cannot think any good reason why you want to do that. I used the achievements as a baseline so once completed, I deemed the game as ‘conquered’. That said, the game’s pacing is extremely slow with a bucket load of micro-management. I think what the developers was trying to aim is there’s a lot more to it than just collecting / dumping rubbish – there’s a whole network of systems to be concerned about.

Whatever the case maybe, this game certainly tailored to the very niche market and granted, there’s plenty of busy work to do (especially when you need to manage a number of trucks). Plenty of lost opportunity here however it’s not a game to be totally written off as there’s a lot of evidence of love poured into this game. However, because the game is now regarded as ‘abandoned’, meaning there won’t be any more patches, it’s a game that you need to take huge precautions to play it, especially that game breaking bug where the AI truck never returns to the depot.

Full review here:
https://www.gamespot.com/recycle/user-reviews/2200-12727648/

5 / 10 (recommended - barely)

Howdy. I purchased this title on its release day on Steam, and boy was I disappointed. As a QA analyst by profession I was truly disturbed by how unfinished this game truly was at release. Mercifully I was not beset by the crashes many of the other users have been afflicted by, but the game itself was clearly rushed through QA if it was even tested at all.

AI trucks not having cockpits, immediate resolution of AI routes, incorrect amounts fo profit returned from AI routes.. The list goes on and on. I truly, personally gave up after attempting to dump in the landfill with the trash going under my truck preventing me from ever moving again. A gamebreaker if I've never seen one.

Until this game is properly tested and patched do yourself a favor and stay away.

sorry to all those folks who had problems with the game. i had the opposite experience. i have been having a great time with this game. it works well for me. the only problem i had was when a worker got stuck inside the truck. i think just pushing the R for reset will solve the problem.

Suprisingly this is actually a pretty fun game. I love Simulations, was tenative on getting it until a patch was released, proves they care. So I bought it once the patch was released. Game play is unique, guess it would be for a game about garbage and recycling, little repeatative but most simulators are. Graphics are suprisingly good and the game play is fun if you like simulations. No complaints, I hope they add more maps not that I have finished the original but variety would be awesome. More trucks etc too but game plays smoooth, is rather fun to play, suprisingly addictive. :)

Random events would also add a coolness factor to the game too, something to break up of the normal trash activities.

After all the problems with this game on the day of release i can honestly say that the developers have done a great job in fixing all the bugs.
This has to be 1 of the best simulators on steam at the moment.
I highly recommend you give it a try

Game is clunky, controls are ... beyond non functional, i remember hangman on the blue and yellow dos screens with more replay ability than this game uninstalled will gladly post a video of it's issues save your money go buy a pizza! WOuld love a refund, but unlikely with steam or the developer DO NOT BUY

First off it should be noted I like sims, this is not the first sim I have played and have spent many hours on Farm sinulator and Euro truck. However....

There is no way the developer has tested the game play on 50 PCs as they claim. I think they have simply installed on 50 PCs and checked the start up screen loads.

This game is not finished. Far from it.

Everybody who has bought the game is being used as beta testers. The game sort of works but has too many erros too often.

Everybody has reported that the crane truck crashes the game when being unloaded - this is something you would expect to have been picked up in testing. They claim a ptach is on the way and they seem to have had no problem replcating the crash so It really would have been picked up in a even poorly done test phase.

My trucks on auto now randomly claim the wrong garbage is being dumped at the wrong place when its not. General waste to the landfills is correct and has been for the last 5 in game days. Now every other dump is wrong apprently.

Driving the organic truck and no matter where I park the guy on the back can not get off the truck due to a none existant obstruction.

Take the dumper to the incinerator and try to switch back to the crane without driving back to the landfill. Game hangs then crashes.

The phyiscs system is ♥♥♥♥. Cars have infinate mass as do street signs. My truck must weigh 15 tons and I have 10 tons or garbage in the back. Why do I bounce off of street signs!!! Yes I am not supposed to be driving it like GTA but a street sign should not stop my truck.

Everything is far to happy to ragdoll for the slightest reason. I can make my bulldozer bounce 10 feet high over the landfill. If you stick the handbrake on while unloading a truck at the dump you fire off like a rocket towards the perimeter fance ragdolling along the way.

Graphics are extremely poorly optimsed. I have a PC well beyond the recommended specs but get frequent half second freezes and when using the crane to the load the dump truck the FPS drop to about 10 when the claw is full of garbage.

The only thing the devs have done well is the trailer video. It makes the game look far better and more interesting then it is. False representation in the extreme.

This game needs at least another 12 months of coding just to be playable and maybe even enjoyable.

One of those games I wish I didn't buy. No blinkers, flashers, flashing lights, NOTHING!. The guy takes forever to haul the garbage. This should not be listed as a simulation game because there is no simulation, not to mention the graphics sucks. I am a garbage man in NY and if i moved that slow i would fired so quick. You can't control the garbage man only the driver which sucks. No first person cam no moving the cam around just that horrible view. I did not have any problems with the game loading or working or anything it works perfectly fine for me just sucks. Horrid game do not buy!

Well, I have learned another lesson about buying games on the first day of release....Don't do it. This game is broken and crashes without making it to the main menu.

Edit: Due to negative comments, I must add that I am not the bad guy here. This game was NOT in early access. But I expected some flaws, as these simulator games are hit or miss on the quality. I purchased a finished game, I can't wait until its finished so I can write a proper review of my gameplay experience.

Unfotunately for now, I cannot recommed anyone purchase this because I am not the only one having problems with the game crashing. When it is patched so I can play a few hours, I will edit my review.

Edit 9/12/2014 The patch came out 8 days after release so here is my review- It's about what I expected when I purchased this title. Good graphics, probably the best feature of the game. There still are some bugs that need to be worked out. I am satisfied with the game for the price but you have to like simulator games. I am not changing the thumbs down because, at the time I purchased, there were no reviews. I posted this review because I use the review system to help me decide if I should purchase the game, and for all the other gamers that do the same, I was providing valuable information to help them as they have helped me.

Edit 9/12/2014
The patch was out yesterday and now the game will play. However, there are still game-breaking bugs and crashes.About 10 hours in, and this will be the 3rd time I have had to restart because of crashing during loading a saved game or a bug with the truck being empty but when I try to dump a container in it, it says the truck is full.

Buy at your own risk.

After 1st downloading the game it didnt work we had to manaully put something into the config to get it to work,
You cant controll the cameras,
You cant put it into 1st person
I cant even be bothered to play it becuase of this tbh
Unless the add better cameras i simply wouldnt bother!