Serial Cleaner
Slip on your flares, grab your shades and hop in your station wagon, it's time to work… as a mob professional cleaner. A good cleaner never gets caught, so you have to make sure you get in, clean up and get out without leaving a trace of evidence in this stylish award winning 2D action-stealth game.
Serial Cleaner is a stealth, action and indie game
developed by Draw Distance
and published by Curve Games.
Released on July 14th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 3,693 reviews of which 3,170 were positive and 523 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: Intel Core Duo 2 2,5GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.7+
- Processor: Intel Core Duo 2 2,5GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+, SteamOS+
- Processor: Intel Core Duo 2 2,5GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT 512MB
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☑ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Easy, pleasant relaxation. Not annoyingly difficult. The graphics are nice and atmospheric, the music is also good. Totally recommended. 8/10
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Serial Cleaner Review **Spoiler Free** Quick Overview: Serial Cleaner is your basic stealth game that sets itself apart with its fun premise, retro theme, quirky artstyle, and silly humor. It doesn’t take itself seriously, with various nods and references to cult movie classics and tropes. However, while the artstyle is one of it’s strengths, it’s also a weakness when it obscures the visibility of gameplay. And the limited control remapping is a bit frustrating. Overall, it is a solid little title that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. Gameplay: The premise of Serial Cleaner is that you are a crime scene scrubber for hire in the 1970’s to help pay off your gambling debts. In each level you will have to meet the clean up requirements: dump all bodies, collect all evidence, clean up the blood (to the required %), and get away without being caught by the cops. You can interact with a few features in the levels to help you out. You can move certain objects to open or block patrol paths, hide in certain features, use path shortcuts, and turn on sound distractions. Picking up evidence is straight forward and immediately collected, and cleaning blood requires you to walk over it with a vacuum cleaner. You can also use your Cleaner Sense , which zooms the camera out to see the whole map but prevents your movement. Also, running over blood makes you move faster, as you slip over it (like I said, silly humor). Picking up and dumping bodies is a slightly more involved mechanic. Holding a body will slow you down and prevent you from interacting with the environment (though you can still use path shortcuts, which is a blessing). You will need to dump the body at a location to complete the body requirement. There are a few different enemy types with slightly different behaviors. But there is no way to fight back against any of them. You cannot stealth kill or incapacitate anyone, which adds to the tension, and fits the theme of an average guy risking it all to make a quick buck. So if you’re seen, you will either have to outrun the slower enemies, or jump into a hiding spot. The AI is based on a field of vision cone. So once you are out of it, no matter how ridiculous it may seem, the AI will forget about you. This includes standing in front of them, but outside their vision cone, or even jumping into a closet while in their vision cone. (It’s just a game, so don’t think too hard about it.) If you are caught, you simply restart the level. And it restarts very quickly, so you don’t have to wait around after each attempt. (I actually would have preferred a slightly longer “you failed” screen to give more weight to the end of an attempt). There are also a few secrets to collect, which will unlock new costumes and bonus levels. Plus, there’s a decent number of challenges you can try for every level (but I found them ultimately uninteresting). Overall, this game uses a simple set of stealth mechanics, but it’s actually quite a fun gameplay loop. I found myself choosing to play it far more often than I anticipated for what it has to offer. So it adds up to a fun experience. Controls: One of the frustrating parts of this game is the lack of control customization. There are 3 control profiles for keyboard, and you can only choose between them: [*]Option 1: [*]Arrow Keys = Move [*]S = Pick up/drop body [*]A = Interact [*]Shift = Vacuum [*]Space = Cleaner sense [*]Profile 2: [*]W/A/S/D = Move [*]K = Pick up/Drop body [*]L = Interact [*]Shift = Vacuum [*]Space = Cleaner sense [*]Profile 3 [*]Z/Q/S/D = Move [*]K = Pick up/Drop body [*]L = Interact [*]Shift = Vacuum [*]Space = Cleaner sense (I chose Profile 2 for WASD. The others felt weird.) Also, the menus require that you use these key bindings to navigate. You can’t use a mouse, which is annoying. It’s a simple game to control, so these rigid limitations are not deal breakers. But they are annoying and kind of lame. Atmosphere: This is where Serial Cleaner sets itself apart from other stealth games. The unique setting of having to clean up a crime scene combined with the fun artsyle and quirky retro humor really adds to the enjoyment of the experience. The environmental art is a 2D isometric retro style, with all those sharp corners from the era (but the characters are simple 3D blocky models). It’s a refreshing style to look at and brings a lot of character and charm to the table. I also feel like the hard bop/funk music that accompanies the game is a HUGE part of the appeal. It creates a kind of chaotic soundscape that accompanies the absurd yet tense situation you can find yourself in. However, the strength that is the artstyle is also one of it’s greater weaknesses. Due to the camera angle being “straight-on isometric” instead of “diagonally isometric”, and due to the 2D artstyle, it can be hard to read the level layout, understand what is considered a wall or an opening, and to see blood that might be hiding behind a wall. When your character walks behind a wall, he is highlighted in red, so you can see where you are. But I found myself often spending time trying to figure out what I was looking at. Is this an elevated platform? Or it is on the same level? Will the cop see me if I’m standing over here? What about over here? The level design is undeniably harder to comprehend due to the chosen artstyle. However, once you get to know the level, the vagueness does become a moot point. Basically, a new level might be hard to understand, but once you play it, you figure it out. It’s not a deal breaker, but it is annoying. I should also mention that the story is very simple and just adds enough context to sell you on the cleaner’s situation. There’s a quick “rest area” in between each level at your house (where you’re living with your mom). I felt like it added to the charm of the game. Though once I was trying to 100% the levels, it was a little annoying having to skip my way through these parts. Overall, Serial Cleaner provides an enjoyable atmosphere and style to the stealth genre that brings you into a zany little world for a small fun time. Conclusion: Despite some shortcomings, Serial Cleaner is a fun quirky stealth game packaged in a unique world of retro crime scrubbing. It doesn’t take itself very seriously, which is a big part of the charm. The lack in control options and obscuring artstyle can get annoying, but doesn’t take away from what the game strives to offer. Overall, I would recommend this as a fun stealthy palette cleanser. It’s a light game that isn’t a time suck, and sometimes that just what you need. Recommend.
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Fun little game! Combining cleaning with stealth is a brilliant idea -- cleaning in games is satisfying, but it usually gets pretty boring. In this game, being a perfectionist means taking on extra risk, and that makes it much more interesting and satisfying. I never leave a mission with less than 100% of the blood cleaned. The fact that the positioning of corpses and evidence changes every time was also a very good idea that keeps the missions interesting. My one gripe with this game is that the story rather obnoxiously gets in the way of the fun gameplay. I wish the hub level interludes were skippable, particularly when replaying missions. It's good that you can redo past missions, but don't make us sit through all the story fluff every single time! I feel this is a game design mistake. It also doesn't help that the story is told almost entirely through written text. I'm sorry, but tl;dr. But overall, very much worth it. Looking forward to trying the sequel.
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Short but (very) sweet game. Definitely a casual game. The puzzles ('contracts') are ok, but the controls are a little bit off (maybe is the part of difficulty) Buy on sale ;)
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Online players
3
Developer
Draw Distance
Publisher
Curve Games
Release
14 Jul 2017
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