Clockwork Cleanup

Clockwork Cleanup

David Stears · December 8, 2025 · Strategy, Auto Battler, Puzzle, Roguelike, Casual

Clockwork Cleanup is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Clockwork Cleanup price

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About Clockwork Cleanup

Goo creatures are running amok in the spell factory and its up to you and MAC (Magical Automatic Custodian) to stop them! Guide MAC through five waves of creatures with a boss at the end of each wave. Choose a reward after each fight to craft an unstoppable spell arsenal! Clockwork Cleanup is an auto-battler where MAC's actions are defined by spell tiles placed in the central grid. The spell tiles are powered by elemental sources located on the perimeter of the grid. You must use pipes and splitters to route the energy to the tiles. Some tiles require multiple elements which can quickly create congestion. Space is limited, but there will be opportunities to expand the grid as you progress.Modifier tiles can be attached to spell tiles to modify their behavior. A tile that may seem weak could shine with the right mods. Mix and match to find useful combinations.Once per wave, the workshop offers you a chance to further modify your grid and tiles.
  • Fuse two elements together to create a dual-element tile.
  • Cut a tile into two smaller tiles.
  • Re-arrange the location of input connectors on tiles.
  • Increase the mod limit
  • Heal up
  • or just scavenge for resources in the recycling bins.
You must manage the grid space carefully to craft the right mix of offense, defense, and routing to save the factory!

Features:

  • 34 spell (action) tiles
  • 17 modifier tiles
  • 5 special routing tiles and 4 pass-through tiles
  • 35 fights split into 5 waves with a total of 22 enemy types

Clockwork Cleanup — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise this game as an excellent hybrid of deck-building and puzzle mechanics with fair, thoughtful gameplay that rewards strategic thinking and doesn't overstay its welcome. The main criticisms are that it's relatively short and limited in content, with some minor language errors, though most feel the free price point makes this a non-issue and would gladly pay for an expanded version.

Recommended Sep 7, 2026
This is great. It's Pipe Mania inventory management roguelike auto-battler deck builder.
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Recommended Sep 20, 2026
Found this on a website with games which have a very high rating but very low player numbers. So far I have only managed to get to the 2nd boss but I can say it's pretty fun (especially for being free). With some more content, I could definitely see this being a €5 or €10 game.
Recommended Sep 18, 2026
great game! needs a lot of polishing, tho. but mechanically, it's 10/10
Recommended Sep 16, 2026
Was thinking about developing a game very similar to this - so it was quite a surprise to find it, for free no less. Good fun, good concept, quite a few ideas, and very polished. Honestly, this would've absolutely be worth money.
Recommended Sep 16, 2026
This game is freaking awesome
Recommended Sep 10, 2026
Insaenely well made. It's balanced better than almost any game i've played, with a perfect amount of different spells and modifiers that make runs both varied to be interessting as well as reliable so that you can build a strategy

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