Escape from Garbage House

In Escape from Garbage House, you play a cleaner hired by a community support center to clear a trash-filled house in a town. You sort the garbage and sell valuables to second-hand dealers for the highest price possible, for the landlord’s sake.

Cleaning the town

Garbage is divided into burnable, non-burnable, bulky and recyclable waste. Small trash can go straight into your inventory. Leftover food and drinks must be eaten or drunk, since putting food scraps out attracts crows. Carrying more than your inventory can hold slows your walking speed, and drinkable garbage can cause stomach problems or, instead, act as an energy drink.

You can hold a piece of trash in each hand and stack trash on top of other trash to build structures. The game also includes bugs, which are fewer than in the previous game, Drink Milk Directly.

Rules and consequences

The town has landlords who leave one trashed house after another and show you their TVs. Staying in a house without permission or cleaning it without permission counts as trespassing, while dumping garbage in someone else’s yard can lead to an illegal-dumping charge. Taking money from valuables you sell to a vendor can result in an embezzlement charge.

Police may appear in town, and you can end up in jail. Crows also visit the garbage, while the townspeople have amusing conversations.

Town activities

Scratch cards let you decorate Matsuyori-san’s house with many treasures.