If you like PWS, you might like Viscera Cleanup Detail

[Pwincess]

Obviously from the title, it's not quite as clean and wholesome, but Viscera Cleanup Detail scratches a similar itch.

Basically in VCD, you're a space janitor sent in to clean up after some gruesome event (what event that is, depends on the level). You gotta clean up the blood and bullet holes and chuck all the bodies and obvious garbage in a furnace (or something furnace like - a few levels have alternatives, like flushing stuff out an airlock).

Few key points:
- VCD doesn't tell you how clean you've got it, until you're done. So thoroughness up front is important. They do give you a tool to find messes.
- There are bonus things you can do to push your percentage up over 100% - which is good since it's hard to hit 100% clean on some of the levels. Bonus things: stacking specific items in specific places (usually barrels and crates), and filling out paperwork accurately.
- Co-op is fun
- There are genuine perils on the levels - avoiding danger isn't really the point of the game, but you'll blow yourself up and make a huge bloody mess if you chuck TNT into the furnace.
- You respawn if you die, and then have to go clean up your own corpse.
- Most levels are obvious spoofs of some sci-fi or horror movie (Event Horizon, Predator, some bond movie, The Thing, etc.)
- Lots more problem solving. Not puzzles, but like... figuring out the logistics so you're not making a zillion trips across the level.
- Your equipment sucks, by design. The scissor lift for example will sometimes glitch out and fling you into the air (and by glitch I mean in-game the thing malfunctions, not like a bug in VCD).
- Your mistakes can make things messier - after running through a pool of blood, you leave bloody footprints for a while. Exploding things leaves scorch marks on the walls (and maybe your guts if you stand too close)
- There's a boombox with some bangers on it. I do miss that in PWS.

Lot less chill, but a little more challenging and engaging. I've been enjoying PWS, it just reminds me a little of playing VCD.

[unclekrusty]

Originally posted by Pwincess:

VCD doesn't tell you how clean you've got it, until you're done. So thoroughness up front is important. They do give you a tool to find messes.

When I played the short version based on Shadow Warrior, this was what put me off getting the full game. That said, I wish PWS had a better way to find what's left to clean.

Originally posted by Pwincess:

- There are genuine perils on the levels - avoiding danger isn't really the point of the game, but you'll blow yourself up and make a huge bloody mess if you chuck TNT into the furnace.
- You respawn if you die, and then have to go clean up your own corpse.

This does sound fun, but it's also fun to be able to jump off of tall things without any fall damage.

Originally posted by Pwincess:

Your mistakes can make things messier - after running through a pool of blood, you leave bloody footprints for a while. Exploding things leaves scorch marks on the walls (and maybe your guts if you stand too close)

Having something like this in PWS would be a point against it, since it's meant to be satisfying.

Originally posted by Pwincess:

There's a boombox with some bangers on it. I do miss that in PWS.

I just listen to my own music when playing PWS. It does have two bits of original music, one of which is the carousel's looping jingle. There's an achievement for cleaning the whole place while having the carousel running the whole time, which is fine if you don't like being sane.

[pgraham87015]

I've just bought the game. It's arguably harder than PowerWash Simulator because you have to clear up blood, body parts and stack barrels. Not to mention it's hard to clean the mop without knocking the bucket over.

It's a great game though.

[Ryuukaze]

I tried VCD a while back, and didn't like it.

I tried it again recently after a lot of other cleanup games and... Nope. Still didn't like it. It's finicky, has no story, and just doesn't give you enough control. It feels designed to make you screw up by dumping the buckets accidentally, etc.

I ended up giving up on it again. I like cleanup games because they're more fun than actual cleaning. VCD doesn't feel like that, and doesn't offer enough otherwise to compensate.

[Pwincess]

It's definitely not for everybody, which is why i put in the breakdown. They are definitely different - VCD is morbid and out to get you, PWS is just chill and silly - but both are cathartic cleaning order-out-of-chaos games.

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

VCD needs some kind of tutorial because I tried playing it a month a go and couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. I didn't know where to put the body parts, I didn't know what to do with the buckets once they stopped giving me clean water, and yeah I didn't know what whatever that device thing was supposed to do either.

I'm sure there's a good game there, but the on-boarding process for new players is terrible.