Viscera Cleanup Detail
BANGER · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $12.99.
- Length
- 13.1h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB Shader Model 3.0 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD 3870, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
April 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 12 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Garry's Mod ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage ($2.49, scores 86).
The math says it holds its tier up to $67.32, and you are being asked for $12.99.
29 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 690 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 1,910 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
13.1 hours to finish it, 86 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
47% start to 1% rarestNo 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
140 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
All the joys of cleaning without the physical pain of manual labor! (not short on mental pain with these physics tho)
okay listen its really good if you're the kind of person to play video essays in the background while you game. i would marry the sound effects from this game if i could, i love love love the squeaking sounds
Viscera Cleanup Detail is somehow one of the most relaxing games I've played despite the fact that I'm usually cleaning blood, organs, severed limbs, bullet holes, and whatever other workplace catastrophe happened five minutes before I clocked in. I really like this game. The actual cleaning can be EXTREMELY satisfying. There's something weirdly calming about walking into an absolutely destroyed room and slowly...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Viscera Cleanup Detail scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/246900/viscera-cleanup-detailThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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