Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator is a relaxing game in which you walk around, cleaning up the trash and restoring nature so that you can watch the animals return to their habitats.
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This review is purely based on my experience of this game. I tried my best not to let other games affect my view of this game too much and rate everything on an for this game appropriate scale! This review does contain spoilers, some of which may not be marked as such!
Most of the game looks pretty nice, especially the animals are cute, but.. The graphics do feel lazy at times.
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
Well.. You run around, clean up mountains of trash, mud puddles, water trees, sometimes even build stuff. You also got a shop for upgrades allowing you to clean up even faster.
Sadly most of the time you just walk around holding your left mouse button to shoot your water at anything and everything until your water tank is empty and you have to go get some more water.
You can pet animals tho. Huge plus point.
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
Ambience sounds are great, animals sound nice and the sound of your tools are fine too.
But some of the sounds in the game might get annoying over a longer playing session. (Personally not a big fan of the walking sounds)
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
All you do is walking around and holding your LMB/RMB while looking at stuff that needs to be cleaned.
Certainly can be played by people of all ages.
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
This game certainly shouldn't put too much strain on your setup.
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
Processor: 3.2 GHz Dual Core Processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 750 / Radeon HD 7770
Storage: 5GB available space
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
At the time of writing this review the game was a whopping 8.28GB on Steam!
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
The hardest part of this game is finding every small piece of trash that you need to pick up or clean.
Well, and possibly finding the secrets on every map!
Don't worry though, they haven't been hidden all too much.
☑ 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
The only "grind" you get is to clean up every last spot and get each level to 100%.
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
You walk around levels and clean up the world so that the animals can return back to their habitats and everything looks greener again.
You can talk to NPCs and listen a little bit to what they got to say, but it doesnt go far beyond that.
The game is about cleaning up and saving your environment, doesn't necessarily need a lot of story.
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
My 100% playthrough took me about 6 hours while, according to How Long To Beat the "main story" is about 6 hours and a completionist run could be anywhere between 6 to 9 hours.
☐ 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
The normal price on Steam is a whopping 8.19€.
If you deem the game worth its price really depends on if you like these kind of games.
It's certainly not expensive.
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
The game does have some rare bugs which might force you to restart a level in order to 100% it,
but it's occurrence is rare and I myself only encountered it once.
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Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator certainly isn't a bad game, but especially when going for the 100% you'll quickly notice that everything just starts taking longer and longer and some of the upgrades don't really help all too much (talking about you bots).
At the same time the levels do feel mostly the same. Sure they look different, but all you do is walk around and clean mountains of trash and dirt, which pretty much always look the same.
Some of the objectives do differ on every level, but the core part of each level stays the same and it just feels like it's multiplying in size.
