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The WereCleaner

Howlin' Hugs · USC Games · 2024-05-07

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionCasualIndieStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 07, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 07, 2024 (iOS), Jan 18, 2025 (Android)

Kyle is a Janitor. He's also a Werewolf. And now he's got the night shift. Try not to kill anyone while working to get your paycheck - in a stealth-comedy game with surprises around every corner.

The WereCleaner is an Action, Casual, Indie and Strategy game released in 2024, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (99% of 13235 reviews).

6
playing now
99%
positive of 13k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
11,519
twitch viewers (latest)
11519.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
71/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
3
Nexus mods (3.1k downloads)
1h
to beat · completionist 3h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

The WereCleaner is a 2024 freeware video game. It was developed by Howlin' Hugs and published by USC Games for Windows, iOS, and Android.

Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,777 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~222/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.7k1.7k20242026Week of 2024-05-01: 1,693 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,509 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,225 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 807 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 573 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 449 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1,295 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 681 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 437 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 368 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 512 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 368 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 155 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3632026-09-15 13:00 — 19 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 14 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 16 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 10 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 17 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 13 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 14 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 23 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 14 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 15 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 21 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 10 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 7 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 11 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 12 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 36 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
8013May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 68 · peak 160Jun 2024 — avg 80 · peak 194Jul 2024 — avg 76 · peak 159Aug 2024 — avg 52 · peak 87Sep 2024 — avg 44 · peak 130Oct 2024 — avg 39 · peak 94Nov 2024 — avg 44 · peak 124Dec 2024 — avg 32 · peak 83Jan 2025 — avg 40 · peak 99Feb 2025 — avg 36 · peak 116Mar 2025 — avg 49 · peak 155Apr 2025 — avg 35 · peak 83May 2025 — avg 30 · peak 59Jun 2025 — avg 27 · peak 56Jul 2025 — avg 23 · peak 49Aug 2025 — avg 21 · peak 44Sep 2025 — avg 18 · peak 44Oct 2025 — avg 18 · peak 43Nov 2025 — avg 23 · peak 55Dec 2025 — avg 20 · peak 45Jan 2026 — avg 25 · peak 51Feb 2026 — avg 22 · peak 42Mar 2026 — avg 19 · peak 46Apr 2026 — avg 19 · peak 46May 2026 — avg 18 · peak 34Jun 2026 — avg 17 · peak 33Jul 2026 — avg 16 · peak 39Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 27
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

3362026-05-31 — 15 pageviews2026-06-04 — 9 pageviews2026-06-08 — 14 pageviews2026-06-12 — 15 pageviews2026-06-16 — 19 pageviews2026-06-20 — 17 pageviews2026-06-24 — 22 pageviews2026-06-28 — 24 pageviews2026-07-02 — 9 pageviews2026-07-06 — 16 pageviews2026-07-10 — 19 pageviews2026-07-14 — 10 pageviews2026-07-18 — 15 pageviews2026-07-22 — 10 pageviews2026-07-26 — 22 pageviews2026-07-30 — 16 pageviews2026-08-03 — 33 pageviews2026-08-07 — 10 pageviews2026-08-11 — 15 pageviews2026-08-15 — 12 pageviews2026-08-19 — 8 pageviews2026-08-23 — 20 pageviews2026-08-27 — 17 pageviews2026-08-31 — 16 pageviews2026-09-04 — 15 pageviews2026-09-08 — 9 pageviews2026-09-12 — 10 pageviews2026-09-16 — 9 pageviews2026-09-20 — 26 pageviews2026-09-24 — 8 pageviews2026-09-28 — 13 pageviews2026-10-02 — 15 pageviews2026-10-06 — 10 pageviews2026-10-09 — 7 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
90.5%
earned "Whoops..."
21.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-01-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,57027%23

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DCuteRetroArcadeCasualStealthCartoonyColorfulStrategyTactical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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