Serial Cleaner tasks you with cleaning up crime scenes while under the influence of a moustache

• Serial Cleaner is a fiendish little puzzler where you clean crime scenes and hide evidence
• You may remember it from back in 2019, and it seems that it's coming back
• But will it be a polished re-release, or just a straight modernisation? We'll have to see

The 70s were a grim time, when urban decay was rampant, stylishly differentiated street gangs were after your head, turkeys fell from the sky and killer sharks plagued the nation's beaches. Or so cinema has taught me at least. Either way, Serial Cleaner takes you back to those days in a gruesome, but goofy, fashion.

Serial Cleaner, as you might've guessed from the title, is a puzzle-action title where you play a professional crime-scene cleaner by the name of Bob Leaner. Tasked with disposing of bodies, mopping up blood stains and generally hiding any evidence of the mob's violent crimes. All of this while evading roving cops and escaping without repercussions of course.

If this all sounds a bit familiar then you may remember the first iteration of Serial Cleaner we reviewed way back in 2019 courtesy of Harry Slater. General consensus? Half-baked but had potential. And it seems developer Plug-In Digital is taking the opportunity for a do-over as it takes over publishing duties to bring this puzzler back to mobile.

Now available for pre-registration and slated to release February 11th 2025, it's not clear if we'll see any major changes made for this rerelease. Given the somewhat mixed reception, I'd wager it'd be a good opportunity to polish it up in some way, but at the same time so long after the original release, I admit that's a bit of a pipe dream.

Still, I find the concept behind Serial Cleaner very intriguing, but seeing this looks to just be putting it back on mobile does dim my enthusiasm somewhat. Still, for those of you who lament never being able to play it on Android, or it not playing well with newer versions of iOS, maybe this is an early Christmas present?

For the rest of us, there's always the newest entry in our regular list of the top five new mobile games to try this week for you to peruse!