Planned Release Date: November 2026

About This Game

You are the only competent employee.

Cleanup on Aisle 3 is a solo arcade management game about running an entire grocery store by yourself. It starts manageable. It does not stay that way, because every night corporate approves exactly one improvement, and the store gets bigger, busier and louder while the help stays exactly as useless as it was on day one.

This is not a relaxing cleaning game. Think PlateUp, but the kitchen is a supermarket and the ticket rush never stops.

SCAN FOR COMBOS

Work the checkout belt and chain perfect scans for combo tips. The register doesn't care how your day is going, only your rhythm.

THROW THE CRATES

The truck's here and the shelves are empty. Wind up and launch crates clear across the store — hit the shelf and it restocks itself. Miss, and you already know what happens next.

WRANGLE THE CART TRAINS

Chain stray carts into a five-cart snake and haul the whole thing back across the parking lot before the next rush hits.

SURVIVE THE DIRECTIVES

Every night, corporate approves exactly one improvement. New departments, a bigger lot, new hires, stranger mandates. The store keeps growing, and so does the headcount — the new hires are exactly as useless as you'd expect.

TURN THE CHAIN AROUND

ValuCo is failing one store at a time, and corporate's fix is you. Turn a store around and your reward is a transfer to a worse one: the 24-hour store, the Megamart, the concept store, the Flagship's 14-day Grand Reopening. Each one bigger, busier, and further behind.

Keep the shelves stocked, the customers moving, and corporate from noticing ValuCo #3 is one bad day away from collapse. Mostly.

FEATURES

- Physical crate-throwing restock mechanic

- Cart-train wrangling across a growing parking lot

- Combo-based checkout scanning

- Nightly corporate-directive draft that reshapes the run

- Six failing stores and a headcount that never quite helps

- Full controller support

- Achievements and Steam Cloud saves