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"Crime Scene Cleaner"
 
   A game rather in the vein (as it were) of Viscera Cleanup Detail, except without the sci-fi bent and overt slapstick comedy. Instead of cleaning up the aftermath of action games, you're "sanitizing" (literally and medico-legally) the scenes of violent crimes on behalf of the underworld forces that caused them. You are literally the Mob's janitor. Mop up blood, put the furniture back where it goes, collect evidence so it's not there for the cops to find, get rid of the bodies... you know, the usual.

Meditative and calming, as all of this sort of game tend to be, but with obvious sinister overtones. There's a story to it, as well, explaining why the hapless janitor you embody has gotten mixed up in all this, which is... more effort than they really needed to put in, but it makes the player character's running commentary funnier. Mr. Kovalsky has a wry sense of resignation about the insane turn his life has taken.

The voice acting for everyone else in the game (whom you don't see, but talk with on the phone) is kinda jank, but it's a PlayWay game, so I assume the development studio is in eastern Europe someplace, so you kinda expect that for English voice lines...

One caveat: the Steam store page's description suggests that there's a time pressure element. I haven't seen that yet--I'm only on the second mission--but if it is something that turns up later, that's going to knock the game down significantly in my estimation. I'm not here for time pressure in my cleanup games.

--G.
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1. "RE: Crime Scene Cleaner"
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   >One caveat: the Steam store page's description suggests that there's a
>time pressure element. I haven't seen that yet--I'm only on the
>second mission--but if it is something that turns up later, that's
>going to knock the game down significantly in my estimation. I'm not
>here for time pressure in my cleanup games.

Update: I've completed the game and this never happens, so I'm not sure why the Steam page's description includes the sentence, "All this under the pressure of a ticking clock and police breathing down your neck." At no point do you have a clock or any cops to deal with. Like VCD, it's just you and the mess for as long as it takes.

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2. "RE: Crime Scene Cleaner"
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   Revisiting this game since Minto is playing it at the moment. (Well, not literally right this moment, but, you know.) It's somehow gotten about twice as long as it was when I played it, which is odd, since I don't think it was in Early Access when I played; it had an ending and everything. Now it has a post-ending mission and a second act that extends the narrative further. I haven't finished that, so I don't know how it plays out, but the new levels I've done so far have been satisfying.

There's also a paid DLC, Crime Scene Cleaner: Biohazard, coming out sometime, which looks like it will extend the hapless Mr. Kovalsky's story even more. No price or release date published at this point.

--G.
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3. "RE: Crime Scene Cleaner"
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   >There's also a paid DLC, Crime Scene Cleaner: Biohazard, coming
>out sometime, which looks like it will extend the hapless Mr.
>Kovalsky's story even more.

Presumably not taking him to Raccoon City. ^_^


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4. "RE: Crime Scene Cleaner"
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   >>There's also a paid DLC, Crime Scene Cleaner: Biohazard, coming
>>out sometime, which looks like it will extend the hapless Mr.
>>Kovalsky's story even more.
>
>Presumably not taking him to Raccoon City. ^_^

I hope not, but that would be kind of in Kovalsky's line. He usually works for organized crime rather than evil megacorps, though.

--G.
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