Review anarchistica 1/5 · Nov 17, 2025
All For Nau[gh]t
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Playtime: 3 hours
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Played: 2025
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Expectation: Mixed. I don't like cleaning games but this looked cute.
Intro
This is a cleaning game. You swim around a few small areas, shoot/suck/swab pollution, recycle trash and interact with some fish.
Review
Back in March i played 2022's Coral Island, a farm life sim in which you also clean up the ocean …
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Playtime: 3 hours
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Played: 2025
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Expectation: Mixed. I don't like cleaning games but this looked cute.
Intro
This is a cleaning game. You swim around a few small areas, shoot/suck/swab pollution, recycle trash and interact with some fish.
Review
Back in March i played 2022's Coral Island, a farm life sim in which you also clean up the ocean floor. When i booted this up i thought "oh, so this game from over a decade ago is where they got the idea". Turns out, Loddlenaut was released over a year after Coral Island. Oof.
So they took Coral Island and stripped out all the farm life sim elements. No farm, no character interactions, no combat, no story, no nice graphics. Instead you get a job. You remove pollution, mostly by lasering it. You pick up trash and deposit it manually in one of the five recycling bins. The bins give you parts you can use to buy such upgrades as "5 extra inventory slots", "50% more oxygen" and "different cleaning item". To call this uninspired is an understatement.
There's also a thing where you feed fish ("loddles") different foods to evolve them differently but it's about as deep as the rest of the game. The same goes for the literally handful of story elements. "This is the CEO's office. She kept a Loddle.". Of course, the music is barely there and graphically this comes across as something my GeForce 1 could've handled.
And they want €20 for this thing they made in one afternoon? Wow. The banner with the dolphin charity is extremely insulting too. They donate 5 cents of your purchase to charity. That's 0,25% of the full price. Lmao.
