Desert Sweepers

The Bureau has declared the desert too sandy. Your first assignment comes with a toothbrush. Each stroke carves a groove in the sand and brings you closer to the cracked clay beneath.

Take full sacks to collection points and spend your earnings on wider tools, bigger sacks and permits to open new areas. Complete work orders and certify clean sectors to earn promotions. Eventually, you’ll drive sweeper trucks and put hauling robots to work.

Watch the light change over the dunes and see the marks you leave behind. There are no deadlines or fail states, so you can take the desert one clean strip at a time.

Sweep, weigh, spend, repeat

• Sweep. Your tool takes sand into your sack wherever you aim it. Dunes are sand all the way down to the cracked clay, and a steep cut slides and settles the way real sand does.

• Weigh in. Carry a full sack to a Collection Point. You're paid by the kilo, with a stamped receipt.

• Upgrade. Spend credits at the field office on wider tools, bigger sacks and better boots. Every tier is a jump you can see: toothbrush, hand broom, push broom, wide push broom, walk-behind sweeper.

• Expand. Buy permits to open new regions of the desert, and certify each 64 × 64 m sector once it's swept clean.

Climb the career ladder

Go from Intern to Junior Granule Technician, Sector Supervisor, Regional Inspector and on up to Director of Sand. A performance review at the field office promotes you once you meet your quotas of sand delivered, sectors certified and memos filed. Each rank opens new tools, vehicles, robots and regions.

Memos, forms and stamps

The Bureau runs on paper. Memos give you absurd work orders with rewards. They're the tutorial at first, then a steady supply of goals from the office board. Every menu, counter, map and review letter is a typewritten Bureau form.

Vehicles and robots

• Three vehicles: a ride-on sweeper, a sweeper truck and the Ministerial mega-sweeper, each with a wide front roller and a hopper that holds tonnes of sand. Drive them like cars, and watch them leave tyre tracks in the dunes.

• Hauler robots: set them down next to Bins and they carry your sand to the nearest Collection Point while you keep sweeping.

• Build mode: place, move and remove Bins and silos on a grid. You always get a full refund.

A desert that changes as you work

• A 24-minute day and night cycle with a full-moon night

• Wind ripples, flying grains and tracks that the wind slowly fills in

• Original synthesized music and sound: brush scrape, sand hiss, wind and crickets

Features

• A 2 × 2 km desert in 16 regions of 512 m each, and a single region alone takes about 8–12 hours to clear

• 8 ranks, 5 hand tools, 3 vehicles and 3 robot models

• No deadlines and no fail states: there's always a next purchase in reach

• Three save slots with autosave

• Fully remappable keys, display settings (borderless, fullscreen, windowed, render scale)

Single-player.