Cleaning Redville

About Cleaning Redville

Cleaning Redville was made in under a week by DopplerGhost for Brackeys Game Jam 2022.1 and is a free download for Windows on itch.io, where it is rated 4.4 out of 5 from 380 ratings.

You are hired to keep Redville clean. The town sits alone in the woods: a few streets of wooden houses, chain-link fences, traffic cones and streetlights that leave long stretches in the dark. You drive the garbage truck along the road, get out at each bin, throw the bags in the back and pull the lever to compress them. Notes pinned up around town raise questions of their own, such as whether people were hiding from something.

The maker keeps the premise to a few questions: the place has its rumours, are you sure you are safe, is your job even normal here. The fear is in the routine itself, a dull night job in a quiet town where the quiet starts to feel wrong, with players describing well-placed scares along the way and a twist at the end.

It is drawn in the PS1 style, low-poly and grainy, and lasts about 20 minutes. It suits players who like the short night-job horror games, where an ordinary shift turns into something else, and who want one to finish in a single sitting.

How to play Cleaning Redville

1. Download Cleaning Redville from its itch.io page (name your own price, free is accepted) and unpack the archive on Windows.
2. Walk with W, A, S and D and use the mouse to interact.
3. Drive the garbage truck along the streets to each bin.
4. Pick up the bags, throw them in the truck and pull its lever to compress them.
5. Read the notes you find and keep working your route through the night.

Tips

• Play in the dark with headphones; the town is quiet and the sound carries.
• Stop to read the notes pinned up around town.
• It is a jam game made in a week, so expect a short, simple job rather than a long story.

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