A casual recycling clicker: take trash apart, find valuables, equip your worker
A casual resource clicker for the hoarder in you, or for your inner waste management system. Get some discarded products and recycle them by disassembling each item. Find out what is valuable, rare or not. Pocket any items worth saving, and equip special items to discover their properties and hidden bonuses to your attributes. At the end of the day, what matters is a sense of purpose, and perhaps a sweet cup of coffee together with fellow colleagues.
Waste Works is free, temperate regarding gamification, and contains no ads, and we want to keep it that way. No in-app purchases, no tracking, no network access.
Features
A conveyor belt that keeps bringing trash bags, artefacts (fridges, scooters, old gadgets) and organic waste
Disassemble items into their parts, and collect coins, rings and other valuables
Six recycling bins (paper, resin, glass, chemicals, fiber and clay) to fill and level up
Equip your worker with hats, gloves, boots, tools and more; each item has its own attributes, rarity and hidden bonuses
Upgrades: bigger work grids, faster conveyors, recycling certificates and robotic sorter arms that work for you
Outfit Saves: your outfit and backpack survive a reset
Music and sound effects, and a recycling manual for new workers
How to play
Drag unwanted waste back to an empty slot on the belt to get rid of it. Tap trash bags and artefacts on the board to disassemble them, and tap valuables to collect them. Drag resources to their matching bins. Keep the board and the belt from filling up: when there is no room left, parts fall off and cost you money.
Waste Works is in early development, so expect updates, and maybe a bug or two.
Icons: game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0). Music: Eric Matyas, soundimage.org. See CREDITS.md in the source repository.
Screenshots
What’s new
First F-Droid release. * Free and open source, no ads or in-app purchases: Outfit Saves is now free for everyone * The Backing tab is a simple Buy Me a Coffee link * New, original sound effects * Layout fixes for narrow screens
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Frequently asked questions
What is Waste Works?
A casual recycling clicker: take trash apart, find valuables, equip your worker
Who develops Waste Works?
Waste Works is developed by Studio Coldstream.
Which Android version does Waste Works require?
Waste Works requires Android API 24 or later.
What is the current version of Waste Works?
The synchronized F-Droid version is 0.2.0.
Which license does Waste Works use?
The signed F-Droid metadata lists GPL-3.0-or-later.