ReCycler
Welcome to ReCycler! Here you need to work your butt off, increase your personal skills before you're ReCycled!
I'd appreciate it if you left a rating and/or a comment <3
How to play:
Tooltips will provide some help, but here's a general start:
- Manage your time spent on the different actions in the "Time Distribution" section on the left. You start with 280 Time units in work and 140 Time units in Research.
- There are 400 Ticks in a Cycle, and 60 Cycles in 1 ReCycle. Upon ReCycle your skills gain a XP Rate bonus based on the max level (highest ever) of that skill.
- Get a job in the Work tab (located at the center-top). Tooltip provides base salary. You can unlock new jobs with appropriate skills/job levels. You can also click on the "Overview Cards" to navigate between Work/Research
- Research a skill in the Research tab (located at the center-top). Tooltip provides basic info about skills.
- You can close and expand the Job/Skill containers by clicking on their title.
- Buy better food (unlocks when you reach 30 net income) when you can afford it (keep track of income at the top left). Food gives you a XP multiplier (can be seen under Menu section at the top)
- Your current job and skill is displayed in the cards on the center-left of the screen, with their bonuses in the bottom section of the card. Energy Bonus is affected by your ReCycle count and "Meditation" Skill level.
Read the latest patch notes here:
Development log
- ReCycler v0.95.1 - Tutorial & ResearchQueue.Dec 17, 2021
- ReCycler v0.95 QoL & PrestigeMay 22, 2021
- ReCycler v0.93 The Big SlowdownDec 09, 2020
- ReCycler v0.92Nov 29, 2020
- ReCycler v0.91Nov 27, 2020
Comments
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Recycle 11, explored all available work and research. time to move on..
this is buggy. better remember to relaunch time to time.
Issues with save
also, bug while working as team lead if one refreshes the page, the senior architect is unlocked without meeting the programming level cap
careful with the unity bs
i got inner peace with lvl 5 medication
how does intrest rate work? It shows me zero
nvm
can you explain to me how you get it what are the requirments?
The screen is so tiny I can't read the text.
Here is a secret.... you can use <ctrl><scroll wheel> to zoom in and out on just about any web page and a lot of different programs on computer. This functionality has been around since Windows 95 and also works on most Mac & Linux distros.
Hi, i have the experimental webgl options on and on the itch.io website but it still says it wont launch, how do i fix it?
It actually seems abandonned, a lot of stuff is broken, some upgrades disappear randomly, random crashes, lots of typos, no balance at all. Too bad
adding to queue crashes the game, also there should be an option to disable information pop-ups, it makes everything unreadable,
otherwise, nice game
Is there a teir 2 in prestige upgrades, or am I wasting my time trying to max out teir 1 upgrages?
gonna play some
Is the interest / investment getting added in?
Just installed, and i am getting the following message after launching :
Unable to parse Build/V0.95.2 - Prestige bugfix.framework.js.gz! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: gzip" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug
This one doesn't launch well on the desktop app from itch.io... but if you're on the website (https://lemespien.itch.io/recycler) it works just fine.
Just found this, and it's fun. Nice to see a Groundhog Life-style game.
Deleting the last item off the research queue caused the game to freeze, though, and now Unity crashes when I refresh - I think when it loads my save.
Meh. Reload fixed the issue.
The food options won't appear, no matter how high my net income is.
I have to close the game or I won't get anything done today.
i cant launch game in Itch.io Desktop. BAN!
Hovering over stats button highlights research button. Still brings me to the stats page though
Game not works!
i unblocked master of code and all other tech good game so far keep going :)
Just restarted my browser and now my save is gone... :(
Can you maybe add an option to export the save, so that we can keep it safe in case it resets?
Otherwise I love this game
I'm sorry that you lost your save, and it is one of the problems with my current save system.
I will add a export save feature once I get around to reworking the save system. This will sadly not be for a while :(
:( It just happened again...
So every time I go to bed and shut down my pc i will lose all progress I have made...
Ps I play on the Opera Browser if that helps anything ;)
If you have a clear cookie/cache option on exit in your browser that might be the cause of the issue.
Atm the save system is using the browsers local storage.
I do not have that option activated, as all other games that also use the local storage still hold my save...
Another thing I found out is, that when I duplicate the tab it gives me a fresh save. But if I first made a manual save it sometimes gives me the same as the save of the other tab....
But okay thanks for working on a save system with export/import ;)
Love the game. It's a new take on the genre (at least for me).
One thing I would like to see is some way to script the "Research". Have a small editor window with, for example:
Research 10
Workhorse 10
Research 50
Meditation 25
etc.
Also, could you clarify in-game how "Interest" works?
Research planning: That is a feature that existed in the game this is patterned from, Groundhog Life on Kongregate.
Seems strange to play this game where that doesn't exist, it makes the game much more active rather than idle - I prefer setting up decisions and leaving it idle, to having to watch it all the time
It wont load! I refreshed as well and exited the browser. Please help.
Do any other (Unity) games load? If not, my first thought would be that you have a strict cookie/JavaScript blocker in your browser. For example: the browser 'Brave' has their Shield feature which causes this problem.
It seems to be a problem with blocking third party cookies.
In Chrome you can go to this settings page to enable third party cookies if you so desire. (Or if you have an extension to handle the blocking for you, try disabling that)
chrome://settings/cookie
In the Brave browser, simply disable the shield feature by clicking the lionhead at the end of the URL bar and toggling it off. (Remember to toggle it back on when you're done playing).
This has fixed the issue in the past, so I hope it works for you as well.
If this does not solve the issue I'll have to investigate a bit further and I'd like to know which browser you're using.
I've been looking for someone to do Groundhog Life over again! So glad somebody picked it up after the original dev dropped it : )
way too addictive eave a warning or something jeez
Thank you for the feedback! I might just have to do that. Did you at least enjoy the game?
yes
the max level of inner peace should stay
Since it is a prestige skill, I feel like it's a bit more balanced when it does not gain a permanent bonus to XP rate.
If you're talking about just the number indicating what level you've reached, I can add that :)
what does inner peace do?
nvm
I like it, so far feels like Groundhog Idle / Progress Knight but with more depth. A way to export/import saves would be great as I sometimes move saves between my computers.
does interest even work?
yes it do but it gives you money at end of cycle (ofc with respectable 400 ticks multiplication changed in 0.93)
ah thank you
i was confused since my money was going down even though it shouldn't have with the interest
Ah, got me confused to. I think there are some things that aren't correct with it. At least the piechart should not compare the interest of a cycle with the income/expenses of a tick, you should use the interest per tick even if it's paid by cycle. Is it added to the net income? It doesn't seem to be.
Using thee interest per cycle would be much less confusing...
Great game!
The nourishment center unlock and the stats page didn't update until I refreshed the page.
Food cost increasing over time is a nonsense annoying mechanic
I agree that inflation is a bitch, but it's the sign of a healthy economy, if controlled.
This is not a real economy. Also, if it were real economy, wages would adjust accordingly too.
Apparently the game takes place in the US.
We have now moved out of the US and wages are now adjusted accordingly.