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2 years ago
Feature: The mechanic of a bloody mess
This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games. This time, Viscera Cleanup Detail [official site]. Viscera Cleanup Detail is a game about cleaning. You’ll wash blood and slime from floors and walls and pick up rubbish, bullet casings and body parts. Your slop will spill, your ichor-covered boots will leave prints over surfaces you’ve worked hard…
3 years ago
Feature: 19 of the best bargain PC games right now
We already chose 13 of our favourite games in the current Summer Steam sale, but more games have been discounted since. So, based on the entirely correct hypothesis that you all have completed every single one of our first round games and are now thirsting for more, here are 18 more to throw your spare change at. Everyone on the RPS team has picked three…
Feature: How games fit into relationships
I was in a long distance relationship for over two years and gaming was incredibly useful for keeping in touch with my partner*. But not every game was a good fit, either because of relative game experience or temperament or any number of other things. So here are some of the games which worked and some of the games which didn't. I'm going to explain…
Feature: A clean sweep
I don't know if this is a news or a feature or what, but I wanted to talk about first-person space janitor clean-em-up Viscera Cleanup Detail [official site] again because I'm still playing it.
4 years ago
Feature: The real best games.
We made our list for Games of the Year or Bestest Bests or Advent Calendars or whatever it was but some of my candidates were missed off the list for NO GOOD REASON WHATSOEVER. I mean, fine, some of them were console games and some of them are from the wrong year but they're still games that were good this year and I still want…
Feature: Pip mop style
Pip has been playing Viscera Cleanup Detail - a game about being a space janitor - to avoid having to clean her room. She's even streamed it from her room and other people have watched her doing her fake cleaning. She and Alice investigate what's so enjoyable about mopping... Pip: ALICE. My life now revolves around cleaning all the things. Alice: Should I be concerned?…
5 years ago
Feature: Stress This Mess
Each Monday, Chris Livingston visits an early access game and reports back with stories about whatever he finds inside. This week, space station sanitation in Viscera Cleanup Detail. I've been picking internal organs off the floor, mopping blood off the walls, cramming severed limbs and heads into an incinerator, and I've only just now noticed the shell casings, dozens of them, scattered around the room.…
6 years ago
I am that odd middle point in life. I'm old and grumpy, but I don't have kids. So when I play a game where insides are spilled, the walls are sticky with gore, and horrific violence is rendered in 1920x1080, I don't think of the children. I think of the janitors. Someone is going to have to clean all that up. There's innards on the…
