Perhaps it’s the additional structure or the allure of clear-cut rewards like achievements or time scores.

Some games even center a narrative around the task of cleaning.

Mopping the floors has never felt so profound.

Cooking in a kitchen, A Powerwasher, and a cluttered room

Perhaps some intense cleaning?

Here are the best games that let us simulate jobs.

16A Little To The Left

Sometimes your typical cleaning game isn’t enough to scratch the itch.

Split images of Remember Me, Deux Ex Mankind, and Cyberpunk 2077

That’s where A Little To The Left comes into play.

It’s a fun concept, albeit short-lived.

It may sound like a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun.

3-Unpacking How To Get All Stickers

Here you get your own cutout street in a small Japanese-inspired town.

you could build, decorate, and spruce up the street from top to bottom.

Put on your favorite summer playlist and relax.

Power-washers, a RUMU cleaning robot, and a construction sign stand in front of a warm backdrop of a man mowing a lawn.

13Tavern Manager Simulator

For a lot of sims, cleaning is only part of the fun.

12Lawn Mowing Simulator

Lawn Mowing Simulator fits neatly into a category of weirdly satisfying games.

Much like PowerWash Simulator, you could easily spend hours mastering the art of mowing in perfect rows.

A cat walking across a laptop in A Little to the Left.

Or, if you are craving a little chaos, you could try your hand at crafting crop circles.

The world is your yard.

There are even different mowers to pick from, for extra replayability of course.

A street with houses and shops in Minami Lane.

Dystopias are the opposite of utopias: they are grungy, messy, and dangerous.

These games present dark glimpses into possible futures for humanity.

Rather than handle a powerwasher, Fresh Start gives players a unique cleaning machine: a water hose/vacuum hybrid.

Cleaning an aquarium tunnel in Pool Cleaning Simulator.

Players must clean ecosystems, water plants, and feed animals on their journey.

In addition, each Fresh Start level includes hidden puzzles that take advantage of the cleaning machine’s mechanics.

So, you’ll get some Portal-Esque brain-teaser action as well!

Washing dishes in a large wooden tub in Tavern Manager Simulator.

8Wilmot’s Warehouse

What you want is a highly satisfying yet simple organizational game.

Well, it does not get any more simplified than Wilmot’s Warehouse.

You are a tiny little square operating a massive and rather dark warehouse.

The employee drives the Stiga Estate 2084 H in the Test Drive area in Lawn Mowing Simulator.

How you organize all your little patterned boxes is entirely up to you.

you’ve got the option to even play with a friend in co-op!

The main character runs through a forest wilderness covered in trash piles in No Place Like Home.

Cleaning in an arctic enclosure in Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator.

Wilmot runs past its inventory in a warehouse in Wilmot’s Warehouse.

Opened boxes litter a bedroom that has a few clothes, a stuffed pig, some posters, books, and an old PC set up in the game unpacking.

Triple-A Games

PowerWash Simulator