‘i have no clothes and i must clean’ Fights Laundry Horrors

i have no clothes and i must clean needs you to make it down your unusually long stairs alive in order to get your laundry done.

Your roommate was supposed to share laundry duties with you, but naturally, they’ve up and done it without you. This leaves you to handle your own clothes washing. You’re a capable adult so that’s not normally a big deal, but for some reason the stairs in your laundry room have been designed to give the Silent Hill Historical Society stairs a run for their money. That laundry machine is deep within the earth, and there are all kinds of unpleasant creatures creeping about on your way down.

In order to go down the stairs, you tap the left or right arrow key depending on which foot needs to move forward (and you can alternate tapping them in order to hurry down into the basement). Don’t rush too much on your way down, though, because, as you descend the stairs, skeletons and grinning ghouls will come out of the darkness at you. You can swipe straight ahead, left, or right in order to clobber them and get them out of the way. It’s always good when hauntings respond to a good old thump on the head. However, if you just start swiping at nothing in order to keep your path clear, you’ll take damage. Swinging your limbs around with a full laundry basket doesn’t feel great, I guess.

i have no clothes and i must clean is really straightforward, but it was so fun that it also kept dragging me back in for another round. I kept getting a little bit further, and things change in dangerous ways as you get close to the bottom and the real haunting in the basement starts coming to stop your approach.

i have no clothes and i must clean is available now (for free) on itch.io.

About The Author

Joel Couture

Joel has been covering indie games for various sites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and more over the past seven years, and has written book-length studies on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is constantly on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be, and seeks to delve into the creative process, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.