I really like this game. I like cleaning games and this one tickles the itch just right.
I also ended up using this game to test how my computer was doing during the horrible Serial Crashing of November ’24-January ’25. It pretty reliably knocked my computer out (along with a huge chunk of games I had that had 3D graphics, tbh).
I played through the whole thing and enjoyed it enormously. I’m currently working on finishing up earning all the achievements.
Pretty much, it’s a fun cleaning simulator. You pick things up and you put them back. Every level has a little spice to it to make sure you don’t get bored, music you can find and play at any time, secrets everywhere… and man, I’m a sucker for skill trees. The skill tree is really just getting better gear for the most part, but man, it feels so good to boost up your skills and do things like use two sponges at once or get a stepladder.
And the main character is one that is easy to love. He’s a janitor with a sick daughter who finds himself taking care of cleaning a bunch of crime scenes to fund his daughter’s treatment. He’s a funny guy who slowly becomes numb to the tragedies he cleans, but still manages to find his way out. As the story progresses, you can see how time passes in his home. Little details like a picture being put up, or the walls being painted, or seeing him with almost no food on the shelf suddenly able to stock up. He fixes it up. Hell, you can even see the progress of his daughter’s health not only through the emails she sends him, but in the renovation of her room as she gets better.
The hardest level for me was when he had to clean up an apartment where his friend’s kid stayed. He was getting his life together and things lined up just terribly to make a big-name gangster think he was planning a hit and not just a movie night. A lot of the stories are kind of sad. Some of them are a little funny.
All of them have little ducks, and I love the little ducks.
