95% funded!!!

Grab your enerQi-Blaster and step through the magic gate

- there's a job for you to do!

Soul Detectives can do amazing things, but magic alone can't help them.  Sometimes they need a Team that cleans up the mess! You are a Cleaner, part of the Clean-Up Crew and you are the ones they call when things get messy.

Who are you playing?
In Clean-Up Crew, you take up the role of Cleaners, protectors of Lost Souls and the Soul Detectives that help Lost Souls to cross over - but make no mistake: the job of a Cleaner is not glorious! You hide in the shadows within a world that condemns magic!

Who are you protecting the Soul Detectives from?
Monsters! Lots of them! They come for the Lost Souls you protect - but what they want them for is still mysterious!

How are you fighting?
Clean-Up Crew is a LUMEN game - and that means fast paced combat with powerful moves! Your standard weapon is your enerQi-Blaster, a weapon that channels the Qi around you! Some look like a magic wand, others look like rapiers, sword or brass knuckles - but they all pack a Qi-punch! But your enerQi-Blaster is not your only weapon! You have access to 5 special weapons that harness the power of the 5 Elements!

Can Cleaners do magic?
Cleaners are gifted to channel Qi and trained to use Paper Talisman to combine them with the power of the 5 Elements and create awe-inspiring spells!

Where to find the 5 Elements?
You will always start your battle with some of the 5 Elements, but when you kill monsters they generate Element-Drops! So you better kill lots of monsters to get those precious Elements!

Clean-Up Crew Adventures:

Longing for Tranquility is the first ever one-page Lumen game and you follow Milvus as they go on their last job with some rookies just before retirement.

Masks of Pestilence is the brainchild of an 8-year old boy with an amazing imagination - but it's also very gross and a proper horror game!

Loreley is currently in production and will be a totally different experience that focuses on solving the mysterious case of a Lost Soul.

- Artisan Version -

The Artisan Version will have an Intro Mission that will introduce you to the setting and the gameplay in a breathtaking story, but also artwork for the Cleaners and Monsters form a diverse team of 10 artists from all over the world and with representation from the LBGTQ+ community, and way more details about both the setting and what you can do!

Content Warning

This is a combat heavy game, so you have to expect combat - lot's of it! But there are other themes that might be difficult for you and we want to be upfront with it, so you don't purchase something you don't like.

Themes: death, magic, monsters, killing monsters, the supernatural

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Clean-Up Crew is itchfunding! - 95% funded!

Funding tiers:

• 100% Intro Mission Illustrations, Cleaner Artwork, Monster Artwork
• 111% More Monsters & Weapons
• 122% Stand Alone Adventure / Mini Campaign (5 Messy Cases)
• 155% German Version
• 169% Dramatic Reading of the Intro Mission
• 175% I get to pay myself
• 200% Artist Pay Bump

Every copy sold, every 5 star rating and every comment on the itch page contributes to the pool of Community Copies we will make available when the project is fully funded!

Lux Collective:

Clean-Up Crew is part of the Lux Collective, a loose collective of creators that itchfund their LUMEN games! Check them out!

Reviews:

@CatlingGun says:

While I was reading it, I audibly shouted "There he is!" when I got to the drop system. I've read a lot of Lumen games, but never one with this kind of drop system! Basically, in true WuDe style, enemies drop elements. Powers are free-form spells, too, based on the five elements.
Clean-Up Crew is definitely for you if you like the high-octane power fantasy of LUMEN games but want a little wiggle room to create your own magic!

@oakenboro says:

These elements are used to power spells, called Paper Talismans (which are super cool, I’ll come back to them) and to power special kinds of weapons. Weapons and spells correspond to different elements, so your character will be looking for particular elements over others. I think that’s going to lead to some fascinating gameplay as you hunt and potentially trade for the elements you need, while your teammates may want other elements.

@hessan_yongdi says:

Another interesting aspect is of the game is curses. You don’t die in Clean-up Crew. Instead, hitting 0 hp places a curse on the Cleaner based on the Yin element of the monster that downed you.

@plural_dice says:

The sample Spells section is really cool and reading it gets you excited for the possibilities.
The scope of monsters is really fun but also what I really like about the monsters is the way they have a favoured Element, an Element they're vulnerable to and unique Drop conditions.

@AtlasArcane says:

I really enjoyed this games approach to magic: The Cleaners use special devices called enerQi-Blasters. These devices help them to channel Qi and make use of Paper Talisman to perform spells, created from the elemental energy that players collect from defeating enemies.

@TheGatesofTruth says:

[C]haracters are not defenseless, and they have ways to kick some ass and survive: weapons and spells.

@caderaspindrift says:

Clean-up crews aren't SUBTLE, they go in and GET THE JOB DONE
blast your PAPER TALISMAN with ELEMENT ENERGY --wood, fire, earth, metal, or water -- and stand back and watch the fireworks go off!
i'm not saying you HAVE to use this game system to play GHOST BUSTERS IN THE SEVENTEEN FIFTIES, but i'm just saying you CAN

@ttrpgencounters says:

Awesome game by WuDe RPG. He builds on an already existing world he created in Mariann: Soul Detective and using the Lumen system makes a fast paced and fun experience butt kicking cultists and supernatural creatures.

@ickbat says:

if you think an early 19th century, elemental-themed supernatural looter shooter #ttrpg might be your thing, check it out!

Media Coverage:

Clean-Up Crew on the Cool Crowdfunding Show with Garmbreak1

Clean-Up Crew on the Wooblies & Wizards Podcast by Logar The Barbarian

Lincense:

This game is Illuminated by LUMEN, based on the LUMEN RPG system designed by Spencer Campbell, Gila RPGs. This game is in no way affiliated with Spencer Campbell or Gila RPGs.

Clean-Up Crew uses the Water Mill icon by Caro Asercion, and the Orb direction icon  and Quill and ink icon by Lorc under CC-BY 3.0.