Upon writing this I see that I am in the minority. But I just didn’t like this game. I’ve played other cleaner games and enjoyed them so I’m familiar with the concept and was hoping I’d enjoy this one. If I enjoyed it enough maybe I could play with my brother or wife but, i was bored.
The game has almost no writing and no dialogue. No funny jokes or charm to it at all. It has no premise, no plot, no ideas, no originality, no creativity because it doesn’t offer anything new or original. I guess the most innovative thing they had here was the way you clean. You stab a slime with a pitchfork like thing and use the slimes to clean up the messes. But all the blood looks the exact same. All the furniture looks the exact same. All the meat chunks look the exact same. And after an hour of doing the exact same thing over and over and over and over again I started wondering why the hell I was even here.
The game’s super stable. It doesn’t look awful. And tbf the gameplay isn’t actually that bad. But this game is too early for early access. If they had released this as a demo I’d have given it a glowing review. But charging me 20 dollars for a game with so little within just irks me. I can’t really find a single reason to justify that pricetag tbh.
Now perhaps this was due to me playing alone but if thats the case maybe they should have added a disclaimer saying “game is meant to be played with 2 or more people”. Maybe then I’d have given it a bit more slack. Who knows what it would be like with friends but for me, solo, as a solo experience, I was just bored out of my mind. No laughs, no smiles, no chuckles or guffaws. I was just bored.
My recommendation is to wait 6 months and see if they introduce any significant updates. The game has no voice acting, no dialogue, boring level designs, repetitive gameplay, crappy tutorial, and a distinct lack of charm or humor which it could have had to create a charming funny little masterpiece.
Instead, I was disappointed and not willing to traverse one second longer down this rabbit hole.
If you’d like a more in-depth at the gameplay with some more in-depth information then I encourage you to check out the youtube video on my channel (link below).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCAjFuMqC4
Otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.
I find it more frustrating than anything. I've played basically every other cleaning simulator game and this is the weakest one. It doesn't seem to understand the genre.
I like to slowly grind my way through the levels in these games, but there doesn't seem to be a save function. You need to complete each level in one play session otherwise your progress is lost.
The traps were cute at first, but quickly become a nuisance. The game seems particularly amused with placing tripwires on stairs that are nearly invisible and practically unavoidable even when you do notice them. Leading to dozens of deaths that I had no agency in.
The stages require 100% completion, but also contain fragile items that can be broken and lost. So if you break an item 1 hour into a run, then that hour is completely wasted. There NEEDS to be an option to either disable breakable items or make them more resilient. Just picking them up the wrong way can cause them to shatter.
There are "hidden" things in some levels that are almost impossible to find by yourself. One stage required me to clean in near complete darkness, but ALSO had a hidden button that I was supposed to identify on my pitch black computer screen. These secrets completely break your trust in the game. I was missing a mirror in one stage and didn't know if it was in a secret room, or if I had unwittingly broken it, or if it bugged out and never existed in the first place (the game crashed shortly after so I think it was bugged).
There's a random cat that appears in each level and undoes some of your progress. You're meant to pick the cat up and take it to a checkpoint. The problem is that the cat is also some kind of inter-dimensional entity and phases in and out of existence and can't be interacted with most of the time. So each stage starts with you finding where the cat is and staring at its shadow until it becomes sufficiently tangible. I don't know what the point of this chore is other than to be annoying.
My best guess is that there was an emphasis on making the game more "multiplayer"? I could see how these things would be less annoying if you have 3 other people to tackle them with. But I play CLEANING VIDEO GAMES, I don't have friends and I don't want to interact with strangers! I just wanted something that I could sit and work my way through an hour at a time like all the other cleaning simulators.
I had high hopes based on the demo like a year or two ago, but I'm not a fan of the things they've added since then.
I've been following the game from early development in kickstarter and played some of the betas here and there, with that in mind and considering it just came out in early access, it has some good and bad points
Good points:
- Graphically pleasing
- Simple controls
- Each level takes less than 2hrs if you want to take your time
- Content is obtainable through gameplay alone
Bad points:
- Currently presents several bugs that force you to restart the level
- Desync in mp sometimes
- VFX and SFX issues that, although not game breaking, can be annoying depending on how you play
So keep those in mind before you get it at this stage but I hav eno reason to believe the devs won't improve quality, so definitely a game you can enjoy alone or with friends once you get past the bad points so make sure to keep an eye out for it if you don't want to deal with the early stages of the game
You're unable to save part-way through a dungeon cleanup. Considering cleanups can take a couple hours if you're taking your time, being unable to stop & pick up later is a HUGE negative for me. I understand this limitation if it was only in multiplayer, but this was solo play. (It does save your ticket/slime count, but not the actual level % cleanup.)
I didn't realize until now, when I went to exit & reopen the game to fix a bug, and the progress had been reset to 0%. There wasn't a save option, but I assumed it was just autosaving, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
Standard early access issues such as lack of content (only a few more levels than the demo) and a bit buggy, but I know those will be fixed in the future. The lack of saving (even in solo mode) makes me unable to recommend the game to anyone at this time.
The new beta branch does not have mid-level saving. (I do now randomly start dungeons with 0%/6%/13% complete, even on my first time, but I assume that's not intentional.)
Low quality game. Full of stutters and bugs.
A long and boring gameplay loop.
Backed by a sexualized maid-orc main character to sell this product.
Everything looks bad.
It is neat, I like this theme and the trap ideas and I think a lot of people will like it, but to me it is kinda boring compared to the other cleaning games. It doesn't feel like cleaning to me. I am just a hot elf who is there to clean and I can't turn my brain off to clean when I keep hearing the sound of my heels and cat meows. It doesn't scratch that itch that other cleaning games do. Mostly feels like a kids game with the copy and paste simple blood stains and simple body parts. Just didn't give off the dopamine of wanting to progress or give off the since of challenge. Also everything is too dam shiny
love the cute goblin customization in early access: really hope even more unlockable faces, outfits, and hairstyles get added.
my friend got smushed by a trap, went to clean up the smushed guts, got smushed myself. respawned, tried to clean up *my own guts*, died again. 11/10 highly recommend
No character progression, no tool unlocks or improvements, or upgrades of any kind for that matter. Game has more of a focus on the challenges than the aspect of cleaning and the satisfaction it brings. Only unlocks are cosmetic. had high hopes but the game, as a cleaning game, is subpar. it can be fun if you want to tackle puzzles, obstacles, and challenges with a overarching theme of cleaning. Unfortunately here the cleaning feels forced, and genuinely ungratifying.
Fun and enjoyable, would recommend. Did come across one or two bugs that will get ironed out in the long run that halted our 100% run such as meat chunks getting out of the map somehow or crashing from an MP game and not being able to join back without the host restarting but if you can ignore little bugs like that there is potential.
Played this game through when it was just a demo, and I love the changes I've seen so far. Customization is great! While it's clearly meant for multiple players to screw around with each other, it's completely playable and enjoyable as a solo player.
All in all, it has two great points for me: it's a casual clean up game, AND it has a nice medieval theme that works well. I'm excited to see what changes will occur.
All the same, if I'm not allowed to pet the cat in the completed game I WILL be changing to a negative review.
I played hours of the demo before the release of the early access and I can honestly say this games worth it! You get to chat and clean with friends while avoiding possible death. A very fun game that can be played solo or with friends! I like games that let you customize your character without any micro-transactions and this is def one of those games. There is in game currency you get while cleaning and doing objectives, this lets you get items from the shop for your characters look. Overall I look forward to see what's to come in future updates!
Upon writing this I see that I am in the minority. But I just didn’t like this game. I’ve played other cleaner games and enjoyed them so I’m familiar with the concept and was hoping I’d enjoy this one. If I enjoyed it enough maybe I could play with my brother or wife but, i was bored.
The game has almost no writing and no dialogue. No funny jokes or charm to it at all. It has no premise, no plot, no ideas, no originality, no creativity because it doesn’t offer anything new or original. I guess the most innovative thing they had here was the way you clean. You stab a slime with a pitchfork like thing and use the slimes to clean up the messes. But all the blood looks the exact same. All the furniture looks the exact same. All the meat chunks look the exact same. And after an hour of doing the exact same thing over and over and over and over again I started wondering why the hell I was even here.
The game’s super stable. It doesn’t look awful. And tbf the gameplay isn’t actually that bad. But this game is too early for early access. If they had released this as a demo I’d have given it a glowing review. But charging me 20 dollars for a game with so little within just irks me. I can’t really find a single reason to justify that pricetag tbh.
Now perhaps this was due to me playing alone but if thats the case maybe they should have added a disclaimer saying “game is meant to be played with 2 or more people”. Maybe then I’d have given it a bit more slack. Who knows what it would be like with friends but for me, solo, as a solo experience, I was just bored out of my mind. No laughs, no smiles, no chuckles or guffaws. I was just bored.
My recommendation is to wait 6 months and see if they introduce any significant updates. The game has no voice acting, no dialogue, boring level designs, repetitive gameplay, crappy tutorial, and a distinct lack of charm or humor which it could have had to create a charming funny little masterpiece.
Instead, I was disappointed and not willing to traverse one second longer down this rabbit hole.
If you’d like a more in-depth at the gameplay with some more in-depth information then I encourage you to check out the youtube video on my channel (link below).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwCAjFuMqC4
Otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.
I find it more frustrating than anything. I've played basically every other cleaning simulator game and this is the weakest one. It doesn't seem to understand the genre.
I like to slowly grind my way through the levels in these games, but there doesn't seem to be a save function. You need to complete each level in one play session otherwise your progress is lost.
The traps were cute at first, but quickly become a nuisance. The game seems particularly amused with placing tripwires on stairs that are nearly invisible and practically unavoidable even when you do notice them. Leading to dozens of deaths that I had no agency in.
The stages require 100% completion, but also contain fragile items that can be broken and lost. So if you break an item 1 hour into a run, then that hour is completely wasted. There NEEDS to be an option to either disable breakable items or make them more resilient. Just picking them up the wrong way can cause them to shatter.
There are "hidden" things in some levels that are almost impossible to find by yourself. One stage required me to clean in near complete darkness, but ALSO had a hidden button that I was supposed to identify on my pitch black computer screen. These secrets completely break your trust in the game. I was missing a mirror in one stage and didn't know if it was in a secret room, or if I had unwittingly broken it, or if it bugged out and never existed in the first place (the game crashed shortly after so I think it was bugged).
There's a random cat that appears in each level and undoes some of your progress. You're meant to pick the cat up and take it to a checkpoint. The problem is that the cat is also some kind of inter-dimensional entity and phases in and out of existence and can't be interacted with most of the time. So each stage starts with you finding where the cat is and staring at its shadow until it becomes sufficiently tangible. I don't know what the point of this chore is other than to be annoying.
My best guess is that there was an emphasis on making the game more "multiplayer"? I could see how these things would be less annoying if you have 3 other people to tackle them with. But I play CLEANING VIDEO GAMES, I don't have friends and I don't want to interact with strangers! I just wanted something that I could sit and work my way through an hour at a time like all the other cleaning simulators.
I had high hopes based on the demo like a year or two ago, but I'm not a fan of the things they've added since then.
I've been following the game from early development in kickstarter and played some of the betas here and there, with that in mind and considering it just came out in early access, it has some good and bad points
Good points:
- Graphically pleasing
- Simple controls
- Each level takes less than 2hrs if you want to take your time
- Content is obtainable through gameplay alone
Bad points:
- Currently presents several bugs that force you to restart the level
- Desync in mp sometimes
- VFX and SFX issues that, although not game breaking, can be annoying depending on how you play
So keep those in mind before you get it at this stage but I hav eno reason to believe the devs won't improve quality, so definitely a game you can enjoy alone or with friends once you get past the bad points so make sure to keep an eye out for it if you don't want to deal with the early stages of the game
You're unable to save part-way through a dungeon cleanup. Considering cleanups can take a couple hours if you're taking your time, being unable to stop & pick up later is a HUGE negative for me. I understand this limitation if it was only in multiplayer, but this was solo play. (It does save your ticket/slime count, but not the actual level % cleanup.)
I didn't realize until now, when I went to exit & reopen the game to fix a bug, and the progress had been reset to 0%. There wasn't a save option, but I assumed it was just autosaving, but this doesn't seem to be the case.
Standard early access issues such as lack of content (only a few more levels than the demo) and a bit buggy, but I know those will be fixed in the future. The lack of saving (even in solo mode) makes me unable to recommend the game to anyone at this time.
The new beta branch does not have mid-level saving. (I do now randomly start dungeons with 0%/6%/13% complete, even on my first time, but I assume that's not intentional.)
Low quality game. Full of stutters and bugs.
A long and boring gameplay loop.
Backed by a sexualized maid-orc main character to sell this product.
Everything looks bad.
It is neat, I like this theme and the trap ideas and I think a lot of people will like it, but to me it is kinda boring compared to the other cleaning games. It doesn't feel like cleaning to me. I am just a hot elf who is there to clean and I can't turn my brain off to clean when I keep hearing the sound of my heels and cat meows. It doesn't scratch that itch that other cleaning games do. Mostly feels like a kids game with the copy and paste simple blood stains and simple body parts. Just didn't give off the dopamine of wanting to progress or give off the since of challenge. Also everything is too dam shiny
love the cute goblin customization in early access: really hope even more unlockable faces, outfits, and hairstyles get added.
my friend got smushed by a trap, went to clean up the smushed guts, got smushed myself. respawned, tried to clean up *my own guts*, died again. 11/10 highly recommend
No character progression, no tool unlocks or improvements, or upgrades of any kind for that matter. Game has more of a focus on the challenges than the aspect of cleaning and the satisfaction it brings. Only unlocks are cosmetic. had high hopes but the game, as a cleaning game, is subpar. it can be fun if you want to tackle puzzles, obstacles, and challenges with a overarching theme of cleaning. Unfortunately here the cleaning feels forced, and genuinely ungratifying.
Fun and enjoyable, would recommend. Did come across one or two bugs that will get ironed out in the long run that halted our 100% run such as meat chunks getting out of the map somehow or crashing from an MP game and not being able to join back without the host restarting but if you can ignore little bugs like that there is potential.
Played this game through when it was just a demo, and I love the changes I've seen so far. Customization is great! While it's clearly meant for multiple players to screw around with each other, it's completely playable and enjoyable as a solo player.
All in all, it has two great points for me: it's a casual clean up game, AND it has a nice medieval theme that works well. I'm excited to see what changes will occur.
All the same, if I'm not allowed to pet the cat in the completed game I WILL be changing to a negative review.
I played hours of the demo before the release of the early access and I can honestly say this games worth it! You get to chat and clean with friends while avoiding possible death. A very fun game that can be played solo or with friends! I like games that let you customize your character without any micro-transactions and this is def one of those games. There is in game currency you get while cleaning and doing objectives, this lets you get items from the shop for your characters look. Overall I look forward to see what's to come in future updates!
