Serial Cleaner similar games & best alternatives

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Serial Cleaner

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2017

Should you play it?

Slip on your flares, grab your shades and hop in your station wagon, it's time to work… as a professional mob cleaner. In this stylish award winning 2D action-stealth game you have to make sure you get in, clean up and get out without leaving a trace - Queue the funky 70s inspired soundtrack!

What works

  • Unique stealth gameplay concept
  • Stylish 1970s art and soundtrack
  • Challenging and strategic levels
  • Randomized elements for replayability
  • Bonus content and unlockables

Things to keep in mind

  • Somewhat repetitive gameplay
  • Lack of cooperative or social features
  • No mid-level checkpoints causing frustration
  • Story is simple and lightly integrated
  • Controls and visuals can be occasionally unclear

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Offspring Fling!

  • Grass Cutter - Mutated Lawns

  • Grapple Dog

  • The Marvellous Miss Take

  • Lofi Ping Pong

  • Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

More violent

Games that feels like Serial Cleaner but with more combat and destruction

  • Party Hard

  • DEADBOLT

  • Party Hard 2

  • Lakeview Cabin Collection

  • Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

  • FOUNTAINS

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Serial Cleaner but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Picklock

  • Ittle Dew

  • Bat to the Heavens

  • Gunpoint

  • Duck Souls

  • Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Serial Cleaner. These titles are not in What to play next.

Serial Cleaner: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fellowship.

Last update: 21/08/2026