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Cleanup on Aisle 3

You are the only competent employee. Run an entire grocery store solo: hurl crates at shelves, chain register combos, wrangle five-cart trains across the lot. Every night corporate approves one improvement, and none of them help. PlateUp-style escalation, 14 days, one of you.

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About the Game

You are the only competent employee.

Cleanup on Aisle 3 is a solo arcade management game about running an entire grocery store by yourself. It starts manageable. It does not stay that way, because every night corporate approves exactly one improvement, and the store gets bigger, busier and louder while the help stays exactly as useless as it was on day one.

This is not a relaxing cleaning game. Think PlateUp, but the kitchen is a supermarket and the ticket rush never stops.

SCAN FOR COMBOS

Work the checkout belt and chain perfect scans for combo tips. The register doesn't care how your day is going, only your rhythm.

THROW THE CRATES

The truck's here and the shelves are empty. Wind up and launch crates clear across the store — hit the shelf and it restocks itself. Miss, and you already know what happens next.

WRANGLE THE CART TRAINS

Chain stray carts into a five-cart snake and haul the whole thing back across the parking lot before the next rush hits.

SURVIVE THE DIRECTIVES

Every night, corporate approves exactly one improvement. New departments, a bigger lot, new hires, stranger mandates. The store keeps growing, and so does the headcount — the new hires are exactly as useless as you'd expect.

Survive the 14-day shift. Keep customers from storming out. Keep the floor dry. Mostly.

FEATURES

  • One store, 14 days, and a headcount that never quite helps

  • Combo-based checkout scanning

  • Physical crate-throwing restock mechanic

  • Cart-train wrangling across a growing parking lot

  • Nightly corporate-directive draft that reshapes the run

  • Full controller support

  • Achievements and Steam Cloud saves