Spilled! stands out as one of the best Adventure/Simulation titles in recent memory.
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Verdict
95%
Steam
90
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (95% positive from 4.4K reviews)
Critically acclaimed (90/100 critic average)
Standout indie gem
No significant drawbacks reported
Spilled! is a 2025 cozy game developed by Dutch developer Lente Cuenen for macOS, Windows and Nintendo Switch. The player navigates a small boat through polluted waterways, collecting waste as part of an environmental clean-up.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 18d ago
Besides being incredible and fun this game also delivers an inspiring message that should not be ignored. the importance of saving nature, bc we are nothing without it!! its very rewarding and brings an amazing feeling of peace to clean rivers and lakes and see crystal clear water full of life with fish and plants where before there was only dirt and pollution. and the more you work on it the more upgrades you can make on your boat to make it easier and clean the rivers and sea faster. its a beautiful work even just in the game, it already inspires us to do something and do our part to help make this world better saving the environment with sustainability and avoiding pollution and waste
Got the game in a bundle, but will review it as listed price - 65 NOK (~6.5 EUR). The world is pretty, the mechanics are mediocre, and the game is quite short. I am decidedly not of the opinion that a game needs to contain intense action or challenge to be worth playing or any super deep mechanics, what this game lacks instead is refinement. So here are my issues with the game: [list] [*]Pushing garbage patches into the recycling zone feels unsatisfying. Improve the claw or give the boat a garbage storage [*]The game doesn't have enough content to even get all the upgrades, as much as this can be a deliberate choice, it also can come across as a sort of baiting that leaves players wanting more [*]A hint function showing where a missing bit of polution is would be nice [*]No map (or just allow me to zoom out) [*]Hard to aim the magnet [/list] Played on Linux without issues.
Spilled! is a cute 'clean up the environment with a boat' game. + Very good pixel-art-style graphics * ~1h playthrough [i](I cleared the first three areas in the demo, which was taken over, and after the end, I tried to clean up all areas, so I don't know how long I actually took for the playthrough alone)[/i] * Decent game loop * Top-down camera * Varying environments and themes - Progress from the demo is taken over, but it fails to unlock achievements from it - Some smaller technical issues; after playthrough, continuing the save, seems to be very broken game-state wise, but not in a blocking manner - I had to go window-mode then fullscreen for the Steam Overlay content scrolling to behave correctly
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