Playing as recent arrival Lena, your challenges include learning a new language and uncovering family secrets \u2013 its developer hopes it will spread \u2018a little more compassion\u2019<\/p>\n
The cosy house-sorting sim has become a much-loved staple of the PC indie scene. Titles such as Unpacking<\/a>, A Little to the Left<\/a> and Momento charm players with their detailed interiors and quiet narratives of lives lived and shared within the same four walls. For Clean Start, Polish developer Serious Sim has taken a different approach \u2013 here you play as domestic cleaner, Lena, an immigrant who has arrived in an unspecified western country with little knowledge of the local language, and a family to support back home.<\/p>\n From here, you\u2019re tasked with cleaning a series of houses and apartments, polishing tables, tidying shelves and scrubbing muddy pawprints from kitchen floors. It seems you\u2019re able to rearrange the rooms, giving them a personal feel, which is after all one of the most pleasing elements of the genre. You can also, we are reassured, pet the dog.<\/p>\n