Sequel idea: trash the stylized artstyle that made the original stick out, add some useless gameplay mechanics, and sprinkle in a bunch of F-tier voice acting. Yeah uh, it didn't really make a great end product.

Serial Cleaners has an excellent concept behind it that the original game executes fairly well, although it does feel a bit like a proof of concept. This game fails to flesh it out well, though. Introducing new characters with different skillsets was another interesting idea, but these abilities all hardly matter when you can employ the same strategy in basically every situation. Calling this a stealth game would be a disservice to the genre, as getting seen has essentially 0 penalty as you can just hide for like 15 seconds and go back to business. Feels like it kind of defeats the point of being a "master cleaner" too.

I won't say I didn't have some fun with it, but I really can't give much praise as anything I did enjoy got stale very quick.

Reviewed on Jan 17, 2024


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