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This Desert Won’t Vacuum Itself: Cleaning Simulator and Incremental
Excavate a desert dune by dune, upgrading from pocketfuls of sand to heavy suction and autonomous sweepers.
Visit itch.io- Category
- Simulation, Adventure
- Platform
- HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
- Price
- Not listed
- Updated
- 12 hours ago
- Status
- Released
- Session length
- About a half-hour
- Languages
- English
- Controls
- Keyboard, Mouse
- Source
- itch.io
AI disclosure
The creator reports AI assistance with code.
About this game
An expedition across a 200 by 200 meter desert begins with empty pockets. Picking up sand by hand yields just enough material to sell at a processing station, funding a four-dollar teaspoon, a larger scoop, and eventually motorized vacuums that replace discrete scooping with continuous suction. Sand changes shape as it is gathered, with earnings feeding into twenty-seven purchases across collection tools, personal storage, field equipment, and robotic helpers.
As the dunes shift and lower with every sweep, hidden structures emerge across three interconnected districts. Clearing sand uncovers eight restoration zones and eleven physical discoveries, including a turquoise sun mosaic, abandoned vehicles, treasure chests, exposed staircases, and a buried temple chamber.
To accelerate excavation, players can deploy up to three autonomous cleaners. These helpers track the active district objective displayed on screen—advancing from mosaics to courtyards and discoveries—while hauling sand back to base to sell and utilizing automatic lift recovery if trapped in steep pits. Because progress requires an active expedition session with no offline earnings, clearing the sands depends on real-time operation and ongoing upgrades.
Game features
- Precision suction: Right-click activates targeted intake on powered vacuum tools.
- Field journal: Press Tab to consult a read-only log during the expedition.
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Community comments
Community feedback from itch.io.
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playing in the browser, as soon as i unlock the last tool it refuses to vacuum or gather sand, even with suction lock enabled. amazing game though, keep up the awesome work! ^^
such a fun game, unlocked every upgrade and still have roughly 75% of the desert remaining, needs more upgrades, my pitch would be sentient tornadoes :)
I'm a big fan of this recent wave of "tidying up and organizing a giant mess" games, though I hate how most of them can't be played in good conscience because they're ai slop. Write the code and create the artwork with your own hands please, thanks. A shame I'll be skipping this one.
Hey there, working on 100% completion right now! Bought out every single upgrade and wrapped up the main story already… you can guess what I'm up to next >:3
Had a blast with this! It'd be neat if certain discoveries, perhaps the more distant ones, were tied to special unlocks or upgrades to improve the balance. Awesome job!
Barely started playing and the cleaners feel pretty pointless, i clocked them at 10$ per 2 minutes, plus they get snagged constantly so occasionally it takes 3 or 4 min just to make 10$
Could we possibly get aerial drones? I purchased mine, yet they're just sitting there trapped and doing nothing.. Having them fly would cut down on them snagging on obstacles, perhaps even let them pass straight through buildings so they don't get wedged inside things. In their current state, I get no use out of them.
Are there plans for a Linux release? The Windows executable works smoothly for me via WINE (without any major visual glitches). Even so, a native Linux binary would be nice.