Spilled! Is a Cozy Game About Cleaning Up Oil-Drenched Waterways

If you love cozy games and cleaning up messes with a touch of nature, your ship -- or rather, your tugboat -- has come in. Spilled!, launching today on PC (Steam), is an environmentally conscious game about sucking the oil and trash out of rivers to leave pristine nature behind, with a vibrant pixelated art style and relaxing music to soothe while you scrub. Spilled! is the first game from Lente Cuenen, a game developer from The Netherlands who programmed it from her home -- a boat on the country's waterways that she outfitted with solar panels and an electric motor, as well as Starlink internet to work and play games online. She named it Zusje V, or "Sister Five" in Dutch, after the other four sister-boats her family had growing up. "When I was a kid, there would be a lot of trash in the water," Cuenen said. It makes sense that her love of nature and boats would make it into her game. Like "reverse city-builder" Terra Nil before it, it's easy to see the environmental underpinnings ... Read full article.