Some games test your reflexes. Others challenge your mind. Pipe Cleaning Simulator does neither. Instead, it dares to ask the question no one asked: “What if you spent hours virtually unclogging drains?”
From the moment you boot up the game, you’re greeted with a grimy UI that looks like it was pulled straight from a Windows 98 screensaver. The music is a monotonous dripping sound loop, which feels more like water torture than ambiance.
Gameplay:
The core gameplay revolves around selecting a pipe (PVC, copper, or “mystery gunk-coated”), aiming your high-pressure hose, and clicking… slowly. Repeatedly. That’s it. Occasionally, the pipe “burps” to simulate progress, but it’s more off-putting than rewarding. The controls are clunky, the physics are nonexistent, and your in-game reward is watching a progress bar fill up by 0.4% increments.
Graphics:
If you like looking at brown sludge and gray tunnels for hours, you’re in luck. The textures seem handcrafted to be as unpleasant as possible. The highlight? One level features a slightly different shade of mold.
Story:
There’s a story mode, allegedly. You’re a down-on-your-luck plumber trying to save your family’s legacy by… cleaning the world’s longest sewer pipe? But the cutscenes are just text boxes over still images of toilets.
Multiplayer:
It exists. Why? Unknown. Up to four players can clean the same pipe at once. Riveting.
Verdict:
Pipe Cleaning Simulator is a triumph of bad design, tedious gameplay, and a complete lack of self-awareness. It’s the gaming equivalent of watching paint dry — if the paint was made of human regret.