Steam Week in Review: Games about sorting 1000s of mundane objects onto shelves is the new craze sweeping PC gaming

Games about cleaning are the rage. The recent success of House Flipper, Power Wash Simulator and Unpacking demonstrates there’s a mainstream-sized appetite among PC gamers for making messy places neat and tidy. But the micro-genre goes back way further than that. The 1982 arcade game Bubbles was about using a bubble to clean a filthy…

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Free-to-play Division game launches on Steam to mixed reviews: ‘Calling it slop disrespects actual slop’

Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence originally launched on mobile before coming to PC via Ubisoft Connect (the artist formerly known as Uplay) in April. Earlier this month it arrived on Steam, where it hasn’t received the warmest welcome. Overall its review rating is currently sitting at “mixed” with just 46% of reviews leaning to the…

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