Clean The Map: City Cleanup

Some people find it deeply satisfying to watch a big number tick down toward zero. Clean The Map is made for them. The festival in the fictional city of Brightwater is over, 10,000,000 pieces of litter are left on the streets, and a counter at the top of the screen shows how many remain.

Cups, cans and flyers, pizza boxes and glow sticks: each is an individual object you can collect, and the game's whole pitch is that the number is real.

You walk with your left thumb and look around with your right, in first or third person, and your tool grabs whatever's in reach on its own. When your bin fills up, a green arrow points to the nearest of 54 recycling points, where you get paid for the load.

The money buys the next tool. There are 12 in all, starting with a litter picker and moving through a dustpan, leaf blower and backpack vacuum to a ride-on sweeper, a street sweeper truck and the Mega Vac Truck. Upgrades include a bigger bin, Fast Hands, Running Shoes and a Trash Magnet.

Later it turns into an idle game. Volunteers, robo-vacs, cleaning drones and an alien UFO keep working while you're away, so a reward is waiting when you come back. Nine districts open up over time, from the festival grounds and Old Town to the harbor and the beach.

Clear the last piece and you get a fireworks finale, then you can start a new festival with a permanent coin bonus. Along the way there's a long tail of side jobs: golden trash worth 20 times the usual amount, 27 lost treasures, 26 trophies and 20 outfits.

The game is free, and the App Store listing shows no in-app purchases for this first version. Both the store page and the support page say an ad plays only when you choose to watch one for a bonus such as TURBO, Double Coins or a truck that empties your bin on the spot.

Those ads come from Google AdMob. According to the privacy policy, Google may collect device identifiers, ad usage data and approximate location, and the advertising identifier is used only if you allow tracking when iOS asks. You can change your choice in the game's settings. Your progress stays on your phone, with no account or cloud save, so deleting the app deletes your city. One detail for parents: the App Store rates it 4+, while the privacy policy says the game isn't directed at children under 13.

It needs iOS or iPadOS 15 or later on a device with an A12 chip or newer, and it comes in six languages. Solo developer Afonso Quinaz takes bug reports through a public GitHub issue tracker. The game came out in November 2026 and doesn't have enough App Store ratings yet to show a score, so if a ten-million-piece to-do list sounds like your kind of fun, the way to find out is to pick up the litter picker yourself.