Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator

Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator

Fair · Shooter · 2022

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
6.5h
Value
$1.54/hr
Reviews
87% positive
It needs 29% off ($7.08) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
60% ($3.99)
Deepest seasonal cut
85% ($1.49)
Last discount ended
14 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.54
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
2,570 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 750 / Radeon HD 7770, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.
Description from the Steam store page.

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$1.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length6.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 565 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 34 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator ($24.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Car Dealership Simulator ($9.99, scores 24).

6 of the 565 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

92% start to 14% 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

Players

11 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 08:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I unfortunately can not recommend this game at full price. I think I'd be upset if I paid 10 but if you buy it on this 2.50 sale you wont be disappointed. I'm enjoying this game. Its like an easier power wash simulator themed around saving nature and animals without the tedium of checking every cranny for dirt you missed. You don't even really need to finish the level to progress. I am the perfect target for the...
idreamtanafroNot recommendedafter 11h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I was looking for something that scratches the same itch Power Wash Simulator does. This game does have that potential, but its quite boring. Spraying Dirt and Flowers with water every level gets old very fast. It's a short 100% for 2€ when bought on discount, so thats ok. But it's too boring to recommend.
Grilled_SheepNot recommendedafter 7.5h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
It's very similar vibes to Grow: Song of the Evertree, but more simple and straight to the point. For that reason I enjoyed it a lot. if you enjoy simple task games that keep you busy while you listen to netflix or youtube, this is great. <3
HolytrinketRecommendedafter 12h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1856030/fresh-start-cleaning-simulator
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperChicken Launcher
PublisherAwaken Realms
GenreShooter
Released2022
Achievements29