


The story of Serial Cleaners is set on New Year’s Eve 1999 as a group of four cleaners gather to have a few drinks and share stories about their careers. So when we got an email for a game called Serial Cleaners and I found out that it’s a sequel to the aforementioned game that I played on the Switch, and that it was set against the gritty backdrop of a 1990s New York, I was intrigued. I played the game a few times, enjoying the premise (of a murder scene cleaner tasked with getting rid of the evidence before the police bag it) and its simple but satisfying puzzles. The little handheld hybrid has been graced with the likes of Golf Story, Stardew Valley, Steam World Dig 2, Thimbleweed Park, and Axiom Verge in recent weeks alone, and there's plenty more, including Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition, and Super Meat Boy Forever, to come.A few years ago, after making several purchases on the Nintendo Switch eShop, I spent the last of my Gold points on a random title I had never heard of before called Serial Cleaner. Serial Cleaner is the latest in sudden flurry of indie games to leap enthusiastically onto Nintendo's Switch, which is rapidly become a treasure trove of top-tier indie delights. It casts you as a dashingly moustachioed professional "cleaner" (the shadowy criminal kind), and tasks you with infiltrating a succession of cartoonishly ghoulish murder scenes in order to mop up all evidence of wrongdoing before the cops can sniff it - or you - out. Serial Cleaner, a 70s-inspired stealth game, replete with appropriately funky soundtrack, launched on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 earlier this year to generally favourable reviews. ORIGINAL STORY, 11/10/17: Murder scene mop-'em-up Serial Cleaner is on its way to Switch and will reach the system before the end of the year, developer iFun4All has announced. It'll cost £11.99 ($14.99 USD) on eShop, and there's a funky new trailer to accompany the release date announcement: UPDATE, 23/11/17: Developer iFun4All's 70s-inspired stealth game Serial Cleaner will launch on Switch on November 30th.
