The pizazz and sharp coloring of characters and levels are gone in favor of the 90's more grungy affairs. It’s a departure from the original’s more poppy outlook on pushing up daises, both artistically and visually. It’s some profound stuff, and contrasts with the cleaner's personalities wonderfully, whether they’re doing it for the name, the game, the fame, or because they’re lame. The expanded scope of jobs that need doing in order to save face of grimy mafia-types compliments wonderfully with what the 90s offered: Techno-bars, brutalism, and yuppies wearing suits while spending thousands on bad dinners - lifestyles that ultimately go nowhere. There’s a focus on growth that’s always readily apparent in Serial Cleaners, not just narratively, but on a meta-level also. With the turn of the century fast approaching, Bob celebrates with 3 other cleaners, Lati, Vip3r, and Psycho, with all of them reminiscing over their origins, and what the decade meant to them. Serial Cleaners sees the OG cleaner Bob return to the artistic endeavors of cleaning up murder scenes, his fixer lifestyle continuing well into the 90s. This is the latest game from Polish developers Draw Distance, responsible for the original Serial Cleaner, as well as the top-down action title Ritual: Crown of Horns. It’s the latter of which that gets a sharper focus, with the release of Serial Cleaners.
It’s not just the zen of the activity taking center stage, but the idea that so much history can be washed away with just a quick clean - history and evidence.
If the impactful release of PowerWash Simulator proved anything, it’s that the cleaning genre of games has finally been given the spotlight it deserves.
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