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Goblin Cleanup (Early Access) Review - A Dungeon Cleaning Sim with a Twist

Team17’s indie fantasy sim turns dungeon crawling on its head - you’re not slaying monsters, you’re cleaning up after them

🧑‍💻 Jack Nelson • October 2025

In Goblin Cleanup, you’re not the hero slaying monsters—you’re the poor goblin maid...

8/10 - A quirky dungeon cleaner sim...

Story and Concepts - A goblin’s job in a hero’s world

In a typical fantasy RPG, you’re the chosen one, slaying monsters and looting treasure. But in Goblin Cleanup, you’re the poor goblin maid, left to clean up the mess. There are no grand adventures or epic cutscenes—the story unfolds through the aftermath. Empty chests, overturned tables, cartoonish hunks of meat, and puddles of blood tell the tale of battles past.

Goblin Cleanup Early Access, two chests, surrounded by blood and meat, one chest has teeth the other shines with gold
Be careful which chest you choose, one has a few more teeth than the other
It’s a refreshing twist on the Fantasy Genre: you’re neither hero nor villain, but the essential worker keeping the dungeon running.

Gameplay – Cleaning Dungeons, Dodging Traps, Surviving Monsters

Goblin Cleanup’s premise sounds simple: mop up blood, fix furniture, and tidy treasure chests. But remember—you’re working inside a deadly wizard’s tower filled with traps, monsters, and magical chaos. Every clean-up run becomes a puzzle where survival is just as important as sweeping.

Character Customisation – Building Your Perfect Goblin Maid

Goblin Cleanup Early Access, Goblin Maid customisation full body look
Find your own Goblin Style

At first character customisation is simple - a few hairstyles and colour schemes for your goblin maid. As you progress, you unlock new outfits, accessories and cosmetics via the in-game shop, giving your little green cleaner more personality.

Core Gameplay – Eat, Clean, Repeat

Each shift is about restoring order. You’ll:

  • Mop blood
  • Pick up meat chunks for tasty mimic snacks
  • Put treasure back into chests
  • Recharge magical traps and artifacts
  • Avoid dying to spikes, pits and angry monsters
Goblin Cleanup Early Access, goblin maid standing in front of dirty room Goblin Cleanup Early Access, goblin maid standing in a completely clear room
Nothing feels better than a job well done!

It sounds mundane, but the constant threat of traps and monsters keeps it tense and rewarding.

Tools of the Trade – Slimop, Managon, and More

  • Hands - Fix furniture, replace treasure, feed mimics (carefully)
  • Slimop - A pitchfork that lets you skewer slimes or carry “meaty kebabs”
  • Managon - A dragon-in-an-orb that drains or powers magical devices
Goblin Cleanup Early Access, the goblin handbook opened to the page explaining each tool you can use
The guidebook tells all.

Each tool has a practical function and a playful twist to change how you handle the mess

Monsters & Minions – Friends, Foes, and Mimics

This isn’t just maid work - the dungeon is alive with magical creatures that help (and often hinder) your progress.

Mimic
Goblin Cleanup Early Access, the mimic chest surrounded by blood and meat.

"A treasure chest with too many teeth. Great for cleaning up those meat morsels, just don’t get too close."

Shadowcat
Goblin Cleanup Early Access, the shadowcat sitting in his cat tower in homebase

"A shadow walking black cat that must be wrangled into its cat tree before it escapes again."

Slime
Goblin Cleanup Early Access, a slime on the end of the Slimop being used to clean blood

"Adorable, gooey helpers that clean stains… careful though, they are flammable."

Progression – From Messy Rooms to Tower Mastery

Each level has a checklist of objectives - from basic cleanup to optional challenges. Completing these earns tokens that unlock new dungeons, towers, and customisation items.

Goblin Cleanup Early Access, the tower unlock guide, showing all the different tasks to complete to unlock further towers
The Tower knows all!
Replayability comes from chasing 100% completion, experimenting with different cleaning strategies and laughing at the chaos that comes.

Audio & Visuals – Grim Dungeons with a Comedic Twist

Despite the grisly subject matter, the art style is wonderfully lighthearted. Instead of gore, you get stylised meat chunks and cartoonish blood pools. This strikes a balance between grim dungeon vibes and dark humour. The audio design is equally effective:

  • Dungeon halls echo with eerie ambience
  • Mimics chomp with disgusting satisfaction
  • Slimes squelch as they mop up blood
  • Shadowcats meow before they teleport

Each detail reinforces the feeling that you’re in a dangerous, magical workplace.

Goblin Cleanup Early Access, a corridor covered in blood and chunks of meat
What happened here?!

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Addictive and funny gameplay loop
  • Charming art direction that gives the dungeon vibe without being too gory
  • Excellent sound design and atmosphere
  • Unique take on the fantasy RPG formula

Cons

  • Early Access bugs and occasional jank
  • Replayability suffers with the levels not changing between plays

Final Verdict – Should You Clock In as a Goblin Maid?

Goblin Cleanup is messy, quirky, and surprisingly satisfying. While still in Early Access, it already delivers a strong core loop and plenty of personality. If you enjoy games like Viscera Cleanup Detail or House Flipper but want a darker fantasy twist, this belongs in your library.

Rating:

⭐ 8/10

Standouts:

Graphics, Sound Design, Gameplay Loop

Personal thoughts:

A fun and enthralling game that works best with a group of friends. There is of course Early Access jank, but the devs are constantly updating it, hell from when I first wrote this one of my major gripes about the game has been patched so I had to edit this! It is a very selective game with both who you play with and if you want to play it but as I said, if you like Vicsera Cleanup Detail this game is right up your alley