There is part of me that asks why no one has ever done this very idea before, but I also know most people want a happy, cheery, Wallace and Gromit-based DLC cleaning sim instead. I, however, am insane enough to want a dead Reptar to cut up, cube, and powerwash away the blood after whatever he did when the Rugrats went to Tokyo, Paris, or wherever the island was in the South China Sea that one time. I’m crazy enough to want that, but I’m not crazy enough to sit through an entire PC Gaming Showcase for the Tokyo Games Show, so let’s talk about just one of the highlights.

Announced on Sunday during the PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, Publisher Mythwright and War for the Overworld developer Brightrock Games announced the studio’s new title, Kaiju Cleanup. A cleaning sim that takes place following the disaster of America bombing Japan twice and 71 years later (thanks for the reminder Δ: SNAKE EATER), people just love big monsters destroying stuff. You, however, are sent in after the fact to clean up the mess of the dead creature.

“In the aftermath of colossal Kaiju attacks, the world finds itself in need of a true hero: You, a hazardous-materials cleaner who knows exactly what to do when faced with the carcass of a 400ft dead monster,” notes the press release. Going on to say: “Join KaijuCorp to clean disaster zones and become the world’s best Kaiju cleanup company, slicing, dicing, clawing, slurping, and packaging up the bodies of massive monsters to leave the environment clean and serene.

Relax after the rampage by cleaning up the monstrous remains of defeated Kaiju, decontaminating destroyed city streets, and washing down walls of mammoth monster guts. You’ll die, of course – the Kaiju may be dead, but its corpse is leaking radiation, seeping acidic fluids, shedding explosive organs, and generally making the area inhospitable to any other form of life – but that’s fine. Send another clone, mop up your corpse, and carry on.

Enjoy therapeutic tasks and use a variety of specialist Kaiju cleanup tools to tidy at your own pace. Extract Kaiju innards with a meat-wrenching claw, slice and dice monster meat with your trusty laser cutter, slurp up each Kaiju’s grisly jellies, and powerwash detritus until each hazard zone is sparkling clean.

Complete missions across an expansive cutting-edge career to upgrade your equipment and customise your KaijuCorp base, outfit, and van. Because you know what they say: where there’s a monster mess, there’s monster money to be made. Explore each environment, pick apart audio logs, chat with your crew, and flick through an evolving codex of research to figure out what the Kaiju have against skyscrapers anyway.“

Publishing director at Mythwright, Stuart Morton, said of the announcement, “We’re thrilled to reveal our monster new IP Kaiju Cleanup today, in partnership with the hugely talented development team at Brightrock Games. Kaiju Cleanup brings a new monster-sized twist to the beloved cleaning simulation genre, soaked with quirky humour and satisfying gameplay, and sprinkled with scenarios that Kaiju disaster fans are going to love.”

I love a good twist on the genres that are otherwise simple, much like I enjoyed Crime Scene Cleaner despite its flaws here or there. The cleaning-sim genre has exploded to include several 1-for-1 Power Wash Sims and some, like Kaiju Cleanup, that don’t reinvent the wheel but prove you can do something more original with it too. I can’t speak on Brightrock’s Space Theme Hospital-like, Galacticare, but the studio’s original title, War for the Overworlds, similarly took the established idea of Dungeon Keeper and improved it for 2015, so I trust the studio to make something that is at least interesting.

Kaiju Cleanup doesn’t have a release date just yet, not even a release window, because it was just announced. Nonetheless, there is a playtest that you can request access to, and you can wishlist on Steam right now too. I’m excited for Kaiju Cleanup, though I do wonder why it is only singleplayer, as it does seem like the perfect fodder for friends hanging out, cutting and cleaning up a dead monster in the streets of nondescript fake Tokyo.

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