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CleanFall

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

What works
  • Innovative blend of roguelike, tower defense, and sandbox building
  • High player autonomy and creativity in ship and turret design
  • Rich procedural exploration with dynamic ecosystems
  • Engaging and challenging gameplay loop
  • Strong atmospheric art and sound design
Things to keep in mind
  • Steep learning curve and occasional janky controls
  • Some balance issues and difficulty spikes
  • Limited content variety in later stages
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Early access state with bugs and ui/ux roughness

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Intravenous 2: Mercenarism

  • Wall World 2

  • Scavenger SV-4

  • Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

  • Funguys Swarm

  • Urge

  • Zompiercer

  • Trench Tales

  • Enter the Chronosphere
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Scavenger SV-4

  • Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

  • Urge
If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Creativity

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  • Experimenting

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  • Exploration

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

CleanFall: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Cooperation, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Exploration, Creativity.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Competence

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  • Creativity

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