{"rewrite":{"id":"r_b50e74a6680da2188c8e2817","clusterId":"c_13f7e8faaecd0658a7b85d99","slug":"haz-games-announces-brainwash-zombie-cleanup-for-pc","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Haz Games Announces BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup for PC","summary":"Haz Games has announced BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup, a cleaning simulation game for PC via Steam, built around solo and co-op play. It is set in a retro 1950s world where the zombie pandemic is ending. Players take on jobs with guns and cleaning tools, killing remaining zombies, then washing away blood and clearing corpses. Wages buy equipment upgrades. The developer said a console version is planned after the Steam release.","whyItMatters":"A zombie game where the shooting is only half the job, and the other half is mopping up afterwards, puts the genre's usual aftermath on the player's clock instead of the credits.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eHaz Games has put a store page up for BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup, a PC game on Steam with solo and co-op support. The pitch inverts the usual zombie power fantasy: the pandemic is winding down, and the work left over is extermination plus cleanup.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJobs pair guns with cleaning tools. Shoot a zombie, then wash the blood away and clear the corpse. Wages from those jobs go into equipment upgrades. The store page lays out the co-op split directly, with one player handling the zombies while the other cleans, or both tackling the grime together. The developer said on social media that a console version is planned after the Steam release.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Haz Games splits BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup across solo and co-op, with Steam first and console later. The retro 1950s setting puts the zombie pandemic on its last legs, so the labor is disposal, not survival.","twitterPost":"BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup sells zombie disposal as a job, not a fight. Steam first, console planned after, per Haz Games.","threadsPost":"Haz Games builds BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup around the cleanup after the outbreak, not the outbreak itself. Wages from zombie disposal buy equipment upgrades, and the studio plans a console version after the Steam release.","newsletterBlurb":"Haz Games announced BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup, a cleaning simulation game for PC via Steam with solo and co-op play. It is set in a retro 1950s world where the zombie pandemic is nearing its end, and jobs combine shooting the remaining undead with washing away blood and clearing corpses. Wages from those jobs go toward equipment upgrades, and the developer said a console version is planned after the Steam release.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/17/172438.html\",\"title\":\"[Viewer Discretion Advised] Pretty Brutal. Zombie Extermination \\u0026 Cleanup Sim 'BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup' Announced\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4700,"outputTokens":643,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789659869,"createdAt":"2026-09-17T15:39:22.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-17T15:43:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T15:43:23.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_13f7e8faaecd0658a7b85d99","canonicalTitle":"【閲覧注意】なかなかエグい。ゾンビを駆除＆お片付けする掃除シム『BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup』発表","representativeArticleId":"a_3544473e4a40e8a6b5e0512d","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-17T14:50:58.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-17T14:50:58.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T15:43:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/09/17/172438.html","title":"【閲覧注意】なかなかエグい。ゾンビを駆除＆お片付けする掃除シム『BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup』発表"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["BrainWash: Zombie Cleanup"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}