Second Life Works: Recycling Factory Tycoon

A pile of scrap is the beginning of something useful. Second Life Works is a calm factory-building game about recycling: build a workshop, connect your machines and watch discarded materials become finished products on a production line of your own design.

Scrap goes into the intake hoppers, then through sorters, shredders, presses and assemblers to the shipping bay. Each machine pushes its output toward its arrow, so the layout is the puzzle: full buffers show where the line is blocked, and a splitter or a second machine may be the answer. Keep contamination down, the power up and the machines in good condition, choose what to assemble, and save a layout that works before trying a new one.

What's in it

• 28 machine and facility types: hoppers, conveyors, splitters, sorters, shredders, presses, assemblers and more
• 40 products to make, from small fittings to larger household goods
• Contamination, power, heat, machine condition and blocked buffers to manage
• Saved layouts and challenge variants
• 60 factory contracts across five regions, research and 15 achievements
• Pause any time, or run at 1x, 2x or 3x speed. Three save slots.
• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Plays offline, no account.

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: click tiles to build and inspect, drag the factory to pan, mouse wheel to zoom. Right-click stops placing.
• Space: pause / resume. Enter: start the production run, then continue after its report. 1 / 2 / 3: speed.
• B build, O operations, R research, J journal, H how to play, F fit the view, + / − zoom.
• Esc: close a panel, or open Settings.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• The mobile version's optional "sponsor bonus" after a production run is not in this version. Everything else is the same game, and the once-a-day recovery grant is still there if funds run low.
• A 1280x800 window that fits a 1080p screen and can be resized.

Credits

Art: Factory Kit by Kenney (CC0). Made with Godot (MIT).