Feel Good Post-apo simulator of cleaning up and repairing a fallen world in single-player FPS mode. Clean polluted environment, repair, renovate and turn on objects long forgotten by time. Make new friends, take care of nature or even plant a forest. Give these places a Fresh Start!
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Fairly short, great game for playing in the background while watching / listing to something else. Satisfying cleaning plus a variety of levels and objectives that felt different enough to keep interest up throughout the play-through. Does get repetitive, so best to be broken up across a few sessions
A cute little spiritual successor to No Place Like Home, that does away with the farming and the semi-open world in order to focus on the cleaning. The drill is also gone and instead you destroy trash piles with water. Other than that it plays like an area of No Place, in that you burn through some piles of junk and uncover useful things, in this case quest items needed to progress.
That's really it. You use your hose and vacuum to clean up maybe a dozen of main campaign levels and a few bonus ones, and you collect items that mostly repair things after you've collected a certain number. Levels start small, but the bonus levels begin to really drag, and the main campaign lands somewhere in the middle. There are upgrades for your magic hose-vac, most of them pretty satisfying, especially as the game starts out feeling pretty slow, except for the endgame upgrades. They're hugely disappoining in that it really feels like the skill tree description promises more than what is delivered. You also unlockc hose and vac robot buddies, and using the hose-bot quickly became addictive to me. Wtih a few upgrades, that thing was cleaning up more junk than me.
It was fine. Cleaning up pile by pile, putting down my little cleaning buddy in order to clean on two fronts at once, grinding away at some upgrades. Just addictive and entertaning enough to keep me going and even managed to keep me just hooked enough to run two laps through the game, the second with full upgrades, to get the 100% completion trophy. I couln't get that final percent to register in most of the levels on my first run, so I had to replay the whole thing, which was a bummer but at least it was pretty quick with max upgrades. Perfectly fine while it lasts, probably perfectly forgettable.
That's really it. You use your hose and vacuum to clean up maybe a dozen of main campaign levels and a few bonus ones, and you collect items that mostly repair things after you've collected a certain number. Levels start small, but the bonus levels begin to really drag, and the main campaign lands somewhere in the middle. There are upgrades for your magic hose-vac, most of them pretty satisfying, especially as the game starts out feeling pretty slow, except for the endgame upgrades. They're hugely disappoining in that it really feels like the skill tree description promises more than what is delivered. You also unlockc hose and vac robot buddies, and using the hose-bot quickly became addictive to me. Wtih a few upgrades, that thing was cleaning up more junk than me.
It was fine. Cleaning up pile by pile, putting down my little cleaning buddy in order to clean on two fronts at once, grinding away at some upgrades. Just addictive and entertaning enough to keep me going and even managed to keep me just hooked enough to run two laps through the game, the second with full upgrades, to get the 100% completion trophy. I couln't get that final percent to register in most of the levels on my first run, so I had to replay the whole thing, which was a bummer but at least it was pretty quick with max upgrades. Perfectly fine while it lasts, probably perfectly forgettable.
Completed the game, all DLC, and unlocked all skills
I like cleanup games but this was a bit of a chore (ha). The skills system isn't worth the money you have to pay for the upgrades, buying one felt like nothing much actually changed. There also wasn't enough variety to keep the cleaning engaging, everything just goes a little too slow. The music is fine, as is the art direction, and got 100% on all stages without any difficulty or bugs.
I completed this in a day and now my wrist hurts.
I completed this in a day and now my wrist hurts.
A quirky little cleaning sim that's let down by a few baffling design choices.
Whilst it's satisfying to clean away muck and debris with pleasing noises, the stages and objectives often become frustrating. One lone plant or muck stain hidden in a random place (sometimes behind a painting or scenery) wouldn't bar completion but it would prevent the 100% rate. That one not-quite-popped clump of barely visible dirt completely shredded whatever relaxation the game offered.
The skill points and inventory system feel completely unnecessary, with the early stages feeling like a slog until things increase in level and move to what should be the standard. The inventory didn't nearly fill quickly enough for it to matter, it was mostly empty even before it was fully upgraded. The skill points system wasn't nearly expansive enough to warrant a second playthrough and there was no way to tell which stages were 100% complete.
Power Wash Simulator this is not, but the game isn't entirely without merit. The stages were fun to explore with achievement unlocking easter eggs and animals to find and pet. There's a positive pro-nature message to be had, but it regrettably lacks the polish to make any poignant or wholesome statements.
Recommended if you're an achievement hunter or someone looking to casually spend a few hours on a cleaning sim without much depth.
Whilst it's satisfying to clean away muck and debris with pleasing noises, the stages and objectives often become frustrating. One lone plant or muck stain hidden in a random place (sometimes behind a painting or scenery) wouldn't bar completion but it would prevent the 100% rate. That one not-quite-popped clump of barely visible dirt completely shredded whatever relaxation the game offered.
The skill points and inventory system feel completely unnecessary, with the early stages feeling like a slog until things increase in level and move to what should be the standard. The inventory didn't nearly fill quickly enough for it to matter, it was mostly empty even before it was fully upgraded. The skill points system wasn't nearly expansive enough to warrant a second playthrough and there was no way to tell which stages were 100% complete.
Power Wash Simulator this is not, but the game isn't entirely without merit. The stages were fun to explore with achievement unlocking easter eggs and animals to find and pet. There's a positive pro-nature message to be had, but it regrettably lacks the polish to make any poignant or wholesome statements.
Recommended if you're an achievement hunter or someone looking to casually spend a few hours on a cleaning sim without much depth.
basically a cuter power wash simulator. I really enjoyed fresh start, I like the idea of cleaning nature and restoring it while in different environments; basically a perfect game to play when chatting with my friends late at night over on xbox. unfortunately this game is really buggy, which brings the rating down (objects you can't clean because they're inside other objects, one achievement glitching out on me and not being able to complete the llama level because one of the objectives glitched out on me which meant I would have had to restart the entire level). still worth playing though if you want to just chill, clean and help some animals.