Eco Volunteer (Demo) ★★☆☆☆

Eco Volunteer, making the environment better to live in.

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Pros:

  • I like the concept
  • Cleaning areas split into sections

Cons:

  • Accidentally threw away trash bags
  • Keybinds don’t show correctly
  • Big recyclables have trouble fitting into trash cans
  • You have to hold a button for faster movement

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

Accidentally threw away trash bags

I hate that this is something that can happen. I was busy trying to figure out the keybinds, because I kept having to switch from controller to keyboard to work with them, since they don’t change based on what you’re using for some reason.

Because of this, I had chosen my trash bags and tossed them. I’m not sure if I tossed the whole set, or an empty one, but still.

The keybinds here were the problem. The tossing of the bags were my mistake.

Keybinds don’t show correctly

If you play on keyboard and mouse, maybe the game will show the correct keybinds. But if you prefer the controller, I think some of the keybinds will change to the appropriate setting while others stay on the keyboard and mouse button.

So you have to figure out which buttons to press.

Big recyclables have trouble fitting into trash cans

Clearly there’s a dumpster for much larger items to go into, but honestly, I get so focused on the smaller trash cans for recyclables, that the dumpster was just taking space and not being acknowledged.

So I’m trying to fit big plastic bins into a trash can and getting annoyed that it won’t go straight in.

You have to hold a button for faster movement

Having to do this while playing on a controller sucks, because you have to hold down the left joystick. The keyboard isn’t much better, but you’re having to hold down the shift key which is a better time than a joystick, which can be finnicky, making you run, walk, run, walk, run in the game.

Explanation to Positive Feedback

I like the concept

Really I do, but there are flaws to the game that need to be worked on. I can’t say truly what I don’t like about it. Maybe the fact that I have to hold a button down to move fast, and the constant back and forth of throwing things away, and there never being a lot of stuff in one area to throw in a bag.

I dunno.

The only other game like this one that I liked was the demo that I played for Restore Your Island. It’s just not as tight of a cleaning game like Crime Scene Cleaner or Powerwash Simulator.

Cleaning areas split into sections

They are split into sections, for easier 100% on cleaning, but I feel like there’s either not a lot of stuff to go through in these areas, or the area is too vague on where all the items are for it.

Roadside, for example.

It’d be a lot of road, and you don’t know how far the area extends until you reach another section for completion. Then you’ve got too many areas to the complete and you get overwhelmed.

But I do like the section splits.