Lawn Order

Lawn Order is a first-person leaf-blowing game. You take on yard and cleanup jobs, using a blower and other tools to clear leaves, build piles and deal with objects and hazards along the way. You can play solo or online co-op with up to four players.

Blowing leaves

Each leaf is simulated individually: leaves lift and race ahead of the air, tumble and flutter as they fall, gather against fences, fill corners and form heaps. Sweeping across a lawn can move thousands at once, while holding the blower on a pile can bore a hole through it. Blowing from the wrong side can undo your work.

The blower can also move sticks, acorns, boxes, barrels, lawn chairs, laundry and office paper, often sending them somewhere less convenient. Wind gusts can scatter finished piles, rain sticks leaves to the grass, and fire can burn leaves and carry embers on the wind. A campfire beside a leaf pile can cause trouble.

Jobs and difficulties

Jobs range from suburban and forest yards to a churchyard, a parking lot, a hedge maze and an office. Each job has three difficulty levels, with separate pay and leaderboards. On Normal, hazards stay away; on Hardcore, hazards can end the job.

• The Backyard: Clear a suburban yard with an angry neighbor and garden gnomes you should not break.
• The Clearing: Work in a bone-dry forest glade, where a campfire sits among the leaves.
• The Churchyard: Clear wet leaves that stick to everything among fog and headstones. It always rains here, and something about the place feels off.
• The Lot: Tidy a parking lot on the night shift, with two hundred stalls and a drag racer who thinks the lanes are theirs.
• The Hedge Maze: Clear a topiary maze buried in leaves, where you should not stay in one place too long.
• The English Garden: Clear a long back garden full of a neighbor's oak leaves. The fence and shed are both barely standing, so go easy on them. A three-legged dog named Dogbro is there.
• The Ninth Floor: Blow an entire office's leaves back out through the window they came in through.

The Backyard and The Clearing also have a Spooky card that leads to Gnome Night or the Haunted Clearing, two Hardcore night jobs with their own leaderboards.

Tools

You start with a small electric blower and can earn money to buy bigger blowers and nozzle tips for corners or wide sweeps. Other tools help with specific cleanup tasks:

• The rake: Drag a pile back when you have blown it into the wrong corner.
• The nut gatherer: Roll its cage over acorns, which are too heavy to blow, to pick them up.
• The tarp: Blow leaves onto it and bag them up.

Updated surroundings

The Backyard, the Churchyard and the Lot are set in expanded surroundings: a real neighborhood, a foggy New England village and a city at night, respectively. The Hedge Maze has also been remade. Menus have been rebuilt, controls can be rebound, controller support has been improved, and levels have real background sound. A short How to Play guide introduces new players.