Serial Cleaner

Genre: Stealth

Players: 1

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Review:

Serial Cleaner is a Stealth game where you play a “cleaner”, a professional hired by the mob to sneak around crime scenes and remove evidence.

You’ll be picking up bodies to toss in the trunk of your car, snatching bits of evidence at the scene to keep as “mementos”, and vacuuming up blood (with a portable wet-vac, I guess?), all while evading the cops.

That last part is where the challenge comes in, since your character isn’t really a fighter, and being caught means an instant loss unless you can make it to a hiding spot in time. Oddly, these hiding spots work perfectly even if the cops see you duck into them, but I suppose this bit of stupidity is probably necessary to offset how frustratingly difficult they tend to be.

Cops in this game have a cone of vision indicating what direction they’re looking, so you can evade their line of sight. However, they can turn on a dime, making this cone immediately shift directions. As if this wasn’t bad enough, the moment a cop touches you, you automatically lose and need to restart the level. And there are far too few options for evading capture for a game focused on stealth.

The idea of sneaking around a crime scene pulling one over on the cops sounds marvelous, but in Serial Cleaner it’s just frustrating. You’re better off finding another stealth-based title.

tl;dr – Serial Cleaner is a Stealth game that has you sneaking around cops and removing evidence and bodies from crime scenes, which sounds fun in theory, but in practice evading the cops is too frustrating to be fun.

Grade: C

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