Cleanup On Aisle 3

Cleanup On Aisle 3 is an arcade management game about running a grocery store on your own, or with a second player in couch co-op or Remote Play Together. You keep shelves stocked and customers moving while handling checkout, deliveries and stray carts. The store grows busier and bigger, but the help stays just as useless.

Run the store

At the checkout, you scan items in rhythm and chain perfect scans for combo tips. When the truck arrives, you can throw crates across the store to restock shelves; miss and you have a mess to clean up. You can also link stray carts into trains of five and haul them across the parking lot before the next rush.

Choose corporate directives

Each night, corporate offers two improvements, and you choose one. Options include a bakery, a larger parking lot, a coffee machine that makes you faster but does not help anyone else, and a self-checkout pilot that operates slowly and messily. A Senior Morning brings kind customers who are in no hurry, especially at the register. Each choice makes the store bigger without making it easier to run, and some choices combine in ways corporate takes credit for.

Stores and transfers

ValuCo is failing one store at a time, and corporate sends you to turn each one around. Your reward is a transfer to a more difficult store: ValuCo 24, the Megamart, the concept store, or the ValuCo Flagship's 14-day Grand Reopening. There are seven stores in all, each with its own challenges.

At ValuCo 24, the store never closes. After 3am, the crowd changes to hoodie-wearing Night Owls, who browse slowly with short lists, and Off-Shift workers, who shop quickly on their way home. The Megamart has the game's largest floor: bulk shoppers buy twice as much, the loading dock is far from the front registers, and a five-day modernization schedule quietly replaces five of the six staffed registers with self-checkout.

V by ValuCo is a concept store with a new mandatory corporate initiative each day. These include curated cart counts, minimalist shelving, a bulk savings event that nobody restocked for, a silent shopping hour and a sample-station cleanup that falls entirely to you. The ValuCo Flagship is a 14-day challenge featuring weekend sales, a Senior Vice President site visit where everything counts double, and a Grand Reopening finale that doubles the workload.

Play with a partner

You can play solo or split the shift with a second player in couch co-op or Remote Play Together. In Remote Play Together, only one player needs a copy.