Unlimited Maid Works has been announced for PC, taking the familiar business of keeping a home in order and adding roguelike progression. Clumsy Tails’ debut puts you in charge of a succession of households, with different employers and different expectations waiting behind each front door.
The work goes beyond running a vacuum over the same patch of floor. You will clean furniture, look after plants and pets, source food and cook meals, with several connected systems competing for attention as you try to keep the household happy.
Every employer has a particular personality and a different set of needs. A routine that worked perfectly in one house may be a poor fit for the next, making adaptation part of the job rather than simply repeating an established cleaning route forever.
Upgrades help you shape a build for that work. Furniture can have useful effects, while some clothing and customisation choices provide practical advantages as well as changing your maid’s appearance.
Longer relationships let a household grow across successive contracts, introducing additional rooms and fresh demands. If things go badly enough you can be dismissed, then move to another contract or return to the Maid’s Hub to reconsider your approach.
The wider structure includes global leaderboards and Maid Unions. That gives the otherwise domestic management premise a competitive element, because apparently getting through the chores is not quite enough unless somebody can also establish who did them best.
Clumsy Tails describes the game as a roguelike sandbox and says it is still in active development. The Steam page lists its release date as to be announced, so there is no launch day or price to put in the diary yet.
For now, the announcement introduces the game and opens the door to following its development. The developer has posted the reveal through its official Steam announcements, with further gameplay and progress updates promised.