Report updated May 19, 2026
Clean It: Cleaning Games
For casual mobile gamers who enjoy simulation and tycoon-style management games.
Clean It: Cleaning Games is a challenged games app that is free with in-app purchases. With a 4.7/5 rating from 101.4K reviews, it faces significant user friction. Users particularly appreciate satisfying core gameplay loop provides a relaxing experience for long-term players, though progression blocking bug prevents character movement up stairs in pizzeria level remains a common concern.
What is Clean It: Cleaning Games?
Clean It is a casual restaurant-management and cleaning simulation game for mobile users.
Users hire the app for a low-stakes, repetitive cleaning loop that provides a relaxing, tactile sense of completion.
Current Momentum
v1.26 · 3w ago
Maintenance- Ships bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Last major release Apr 2026.
What makes this app unique?
What Does It Look Like?
What Are The Key Features?
Build, clean, and expand eatery rooms including cash registers, food stands, and tables
Employ and level up cleaners to automate table maintenance and increase cleanup capacity
How much does it cost?
- Free to play with ad support
- In-app purchases available
Ad-supported model with in-app purchases, anchored by high-frequency engagement loops.
Who Built It?
HOMA GAMES
Empowering mobile game creators with data-driven publishing tools to build, scale, and monetize global hits.
Portfolio
13
Apps
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Portfolio breakdown, audience, momentum, and every app published by HOMA GAMES.
What do users think recently?
High confidence · Latest 120 of 189 total reviews analyzed · Based on 189 reviews. Signal may be noisy.
How did the latest release land?
What is the recent mood?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate satisfying core gameplay loop provides a relaxing experience for long-term players, but report progression blocking bug prevents character movement up stairs in pizzeria level and purchased ad-free experience fails to remove forced advertisements during gameplay.
What Users Love
What Frustrates Users
What Users Want
How have ratings & review volume moved?
Rating, review sentiment, and total reviews over time, with release markers showing the post-launch impact.
Vertical markers = app releases. Hover any release for the post-release impact delta.
View the full user-sentiment analysis
Mood gauge, ratings & review-volume history, every praise / complaint / request, and sentiment over time.
What is the competitive landscape for Clean It: Cleaning Games?
How's The Games Market?
How does it evolve in the Games market?
Clean It maintains a presence across global arcade charts, though its grossing rank frequently lags behind its download rank, signaling monetization friction. The app's rating remains high at 4.74, yet the 189 reviews highlight severe technical instability that threatens this baseline.
Rank progression
155 active rankings tracked — 30-day window
The rivals identified
Nemeses(1)
This app competes directly for the same casual simulation audience by focusing on satisfying, tactile cleaning mechanics and equipment-based progression.
Same space(4)
Competes for the casual management audience by utilizing merge mechanics and creative customization features.
Shares the core 'build and manage' loop, appealing to players who enjoy decorating and expanding virtual spaces.
This app targets the same casual management demographic by focusing on collection and farm-style progression loops.
Both apps utilize town management and simulation mechanics to drive player engagement through progression and expansion.
New entrants(1)
This newcomer targets the same 'renovation and cleanup' fantasy that drives the target app's core loop.
Compare Clean It: Cleaning Games against every rival
All rivals in one side-by-side table — identity, store metrics, ratings & sentiment, and strategic intel — plus a head-to-head page for each.
The outtake for Clean It: Cleaning Games
Strengths to defend, gaps to attack
Core Strengths
- Core cleaning loop provides a relaxing, addictive retention anchor
- Restaurant-tycoon meta-game expands ad-inventory per session
Critical Frictions
- Critical pizzeria-level progression bug
- Ad-free purchase failure
- 0.15 rating gap between iOS and Android
Growth Levers
- Untapped late-game content (sushi restaurant)
- Expansion into seasonal cleaning events
Market Threats
- High-fidelity competitors like PowerWash Simulator
- Churn driven by technical instability
- Aggressive ad-frequency causing user fatigue
What are the next best moves?
Fix pizzeria progression bug because it is the top-reported churn driver → stabilize retention
High-frequency complaint theme in user sentiment analysis.
Trade-off: Pause the sushi restaurant expansion sprint — fixing existing content is higher priority than new levels.
Audit ad-removal purchase flow because users report it fails to function → recover revenue
High-frequency complaint theme regarding monetization failure.
Trade-off: Deprioritize minor UI polish tasks — purchase integrity is a critical revenue blocker.
A counter-intuitive read
The app's high rating is a liability: it masks the severity of the progression-blocking bug, leading to a false sense of security while the core user base churns.
Feature Gaps vs Competitors
- High-fidelity 3D physics (available in PowerWash Simulator but absent here)
- Interior design and furniture placement (available in House Flipper but absent here)
Key Takeaways
Clean It holds its category presence through a sticky core loop but bleeds players due to critical progression bugs and broken monetization, so revenue growth hinges on fixing the pizzeria-level blocker and purchase flow.
Where Is It Heading?
Declining
Casual simulation traffic is consolidating around high-fidelity rivals, leaving Clean It exposed to churn if technical issues persist. The lack of new content beyond the current pizzeria level will accelerate the decline in daily active users as players reach the progression wall.
Progression-blocking bugs in the latest release prevent level completion, which drives high churn among the most engaged long-term players.
Broken ad-removal purchases trigger refund requests and negative sentiment, which erodes the trust required for future in-app purchase conversion.