Serial Cleaners

Serial Cleaners

Skip · Action · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Length
8.9h 12.2h to 100%
Value
$2.81/hr
Reviews
78% of 463 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$2.81/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 356 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Serial Cleaners is a top-down stealth-action game, where you get to experience being a murder scene cleaner for the mob in 1990s New York. Alternate between four cleaners, each with their own unique style, and live their stories.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 950 / Radeon HD 7970, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 35 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Intravenous ($2.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Sneak Thief ($14.99, scores 28).

More about Serial Cleaners

1 of the 356 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to July 2026.

At 8.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

86% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

this is a stealth, strategy, top-down game like shadow tactic but simpler. in this game we have a duty to clean the crime scenes. cleaning bl**ds; dispose b*dies and evidences and avoid to not get caught by patroling cops, securities or detectives. there are 4 playable character with unique ability. the gameplay is fun enough, but the story is meh. better skip all of those boring cutscenes and conversations, and...
SthyxRecommendedafter 16hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Decent game, however it is seem to be just of the mark. Buy it on sale The voice acting and dialog is stiff. The story doesn't really catch on The gameplay is fun but repetetive
KeownRecommendedafter 12hJul 2025Read on Steam
Game sounds great on paper but the game is boring. Since I played and loved the first game, I thought I would love this even more. I like this kind of art design a lot. Game becoming 3d also sound good. First, movement is problematic. This problem was present in the first game too but that game was 2d so, it had more simple level design. Second is the awful character design. In this game we have 4 different...
SapiensNot recommendedafter 3.5h33 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Serial Cleaners scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1337920/serial-cleaners
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDraw Distance
Publisher505 Games
GenreAction
Released2022
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24