leak! It is a comfortable game about cleaning waterways with oil

If you like comfortable games and clean chaos with a touch of nature, your ship – or rather, appears, your drip boat.steam), It is an environmentally conscious game about the absorption of oil and garbage from rivers to leave the virgin nature behind it, in a vibrant pixel and a comfortable music to calm while cleaning.

leak! It is the first game of Lente Cuenen, and it is developed by the Netherlands games that she programmed from her home – a boat in the country’s waterways that are equipped with solar panels and an electric motor, as well as Starlink Internet to work and play online games. It was called Zusje V, or “Sister Five” in the Dutch language, after its other four boats grew up.

“When I was a child, there will be a lot of garbage in water,” Queen said. It makes sense that her love for nature and boats will make her in her game.

Such as “reverse the city’s construction” Terra Neil Before that, it is easy to see the environmental foundations of the ritual mechanics! Water is clear, rich vegetable cover and fish below shows; Cleaning enough and largest animals like dolphins will swim next to your bowl.

Cuenn included environmental topics from the beginning of the game and expressed her hope that she would have an inspiring message, but she focused first and foremost to make it a fun game to play. “I think it is more useful to have a fun game that many people who have a more accurate message than a big message with a big message on your face and put people in front of people,” she said.

The causative gameplay method! It is a comfortable loop to fill your boat with garbage and oil, then deliver it to the floating assembly boats, which gives you more tools to explore other areas that need cleaning, upgrade, progress, and repetition. Tell us all that it is not a long game – you can finish it within an hour – but like many comfortable games, indulging over and over the feelings is the point, not finishing.

“There is this person (in Discord! Discord) who sometimes jumps and shows the time of his playing on a leak! He is now 80 hours. I don’t know how to do it,” Queen said.

leak! It passes through various vital areas with new tools for cleaning pollution. While the oil barrels and plastic bottles that explode in the waterways feel frighteningly, the players may notice a lot of wind turbines and solar panels that line up on the hills and homes on the banks of the river. This is evidence of the “SolaPunk” preparation skillfully built in the game. The simple story reveals that the game world was not always green after an era of oil and factories, so it is due to the player to revive the water – which is the fiction of the power of the planet.

“It is a kind of future world where we still have to embrace technology, but for a better and more green reason,” Queen said.

leak! Available for the computer (steamStarting March 26, 2025.

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