Clockwork Cleanup

Clockwork Cleanup is an auto-battler in which you guide MAC (Magical Automatic Custodian) through a spell factory overrun by goo creatures. You face five waves, each ending with a boss, and choose a reward after each fight to build your spell arsenal.

Build your spell grid

MAC’s actions come from spell tiles placed in the grid’s center. Elemental sources around its perimeter power the tiles, and you route that energy with pipes and splitters. Some spells need multiple elements, which can congest the grid; space is limited, though you can expand the grid as you progress. You must balance offense, defense and energy routing as you build your setup.

Modifier tiles attach to spell tiles and change how they work, allowing different combinations to improve a tile’s usefulness. Once per wave, you can use the workshop to alter your grid and tiles in several ways:

• Fuse two elements to create a dual-element tile.
• Cut a tile into two smaller tiles.
• Rearrange the positions of a tile’s input connectors.
• Increase the mod limit.
• Heal.
• Scavenge for resources in the recycling bins.

Tiles and fights

The game includes 34 spell (action) tiles, 17 modifier tiles, five special routing tiles and four pass-through tiles. Its 35 fights are split across five waves and feature 22 enemy types.