Okay, so I've really gotten sucked into this whole tidy-up craze lately, now that a new game in this genre gets published every five minutes or so, and I've played a few of them and really enjoy them. They scratch an itch located in the deepest part of my brain (the part that SHOULD encourage me to tidy up my actual house) and I can sit for hours, mind blank, just shelving books or groceries or clothes or electronics or whatever the theme's items are. I was a little skeptical of this one before it came out, because it seemed too good to be true for me. Why? Because it takes place in a mall and I LOVE MALLS. Also, it includes some cleaning and trash removal - two of my favorite activities in House Flipper. It looked the same - yet different - from the rest of the tidy up games, and so many of them lately have been getting bad reviews, I thought, well, I'll wait to see what the reviews of this one are before purchasing.

When I woke up and saw all positive reviews so far, I decided to give it a shot. And boy, am I glad I did! First of all, the SETTING of this game. This looks and feels like A REAL MALL. Second of all, the SIZE of this game. Over 30,000 items to shelve/clean/remove/flip over. It sounds like a lot, but the way that the items for each store are contained either inside each store, or at least in proximity outside of the stores, is extremely helpful and makes the game feel less tedious. Third of all, the VARIETY. Some stores have items similar to other stores, but being able to go from shelving refrigerators to shelving sunglasses to shelving groceries to just picking up trash really helps to break up the monotony experienced with a lot of these games.

Overall, so far, I have to say that this is my absolute favorite of all the tidy up games I've played. Again, the setting is AMAZING. The music is great (it's got kind of a liminal vibe to it). The variety of stores and their items keeps the gameplay feeling fresh. I haven't experienced any performance issues, so it runs great. If you enjoy these types of games, you're most likely going to love this one. Highly recommend!

I have played A LOT of these tidying and organizing games, honestly most of them. And this is the best one in the genre by far, right up there with the Arcane Library one. The task feels daunting, and it is. But as you progress and upgrade your abilities, the task becomes much faster and more manageable.

One critique I have is that around level 10 or so, the XP required between level ups are long before your skills can pick up the slack and make the progression move quicker. But then, you also start to get a few perk points per level. So you slog through a long level and then get a few perk points, which is exciting, but I think the progression would feel better as a player if there were simply more levels to progress through and spend the perk points more frequently. Even if the total XP needed to get to level 20 when you unlock the ability to upgrade your skills to max level remains the same and that just becomes level 40 instead, I think that would break up the grind into a more satisfying progression and make the excitement of skill upgrades be felt more often.

But yeah, this game is great. There isn't the asset reuse so many of the other games have. There is clearly some free pack of grocery store items that every dev uses (except this one!) and it gets stale. It was fun to not see the same 50ish items in the grocery section. SUSU sugar, Chokipik Cereal, none of that predictable and now expected asset reuse is here. It was really refreshing. I know a lot of these games are "slop" games but the developer here clearly enjoys the gameplay loop and the genre and built an excellent entry for all us cleaning goblins to enjoy.

I did this game with no actives and enjoyed the hell out of every second. Just relax and put stuff away.

Hope to see some updates or maybe new map in the future. Bigger Mall? More shops added?

Some Ideas I had that would be fun to add:
Linking music to the speakers in the mall like Spotify or custom track music, the in game is fine but does get dull once u hear it 20 times over.
A mode with no actives? Mode with items not around the store just everywhere so you have to travel the mall? (achievement for no active used would be nice for the hardcore)
Better signs with the item image on it would help find things more faster.
Multiplayer would be fun to add but I know that is hard to do. (maybe a feature making co op harder but also working together helps the process)

I got way more ideas and QOL that would that would love to talk about but do not want to add more to a plate.

Hope to see more! (I will pay double to a new mall/bigger mall)