What a great short game with a super important message! Clean the waters while earning money to upgrade your boat. Completion takes around one hour, and there are no missable achievements.
Approximate amount of time to 100%: 1h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 1/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: You don’t need a guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty setting
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
Spilled! is an awesome game where you play as a boat and clean up oil from the waters. You’ll also save animals and, later on, you also do things like putting off fires. The game mechanics are very simple and explained without text, but it is so addictive for the hour it takes. I love cleaning in games, and Spilled! is no exception.
What is great about Spilled! is that the waters are so murky that you can’t even see the bottom of the rivers. But by cleaning up the oil, the water gets more clear until it is totally clear. You also get the option between 3 upgrades for the money you earn during the game, increasing the size of that thing that is at the front of your boat so you can clean more significant areas, increase the speed of your ship, or increase the amount of oil you can collect before having to sell it. You will most likely upgrade it all as the price doubles for each type of upgrade once you upgrade it.
I have followed the developer Lente since the beginning, as the game just looked so cute and she lives in the same country. It is amazing to see how much work she put into the game as a solo dev and how the reception toward the game has been. And so well deserved! I really love that she made the game much longer, as you don’t want a simple game mechanic to overstay its welcome.
I’m so very glad Lente managed to add Steam Achievement at the last minute. And I really like the type of achievements that Spilled has. They are for completing each area and rescuing the animals. They are well-paced and feel like a small reward for your work in-game. None of them are missable, as you can go back to earlier areas. And even if you get stuck on not finding what you’re missing in a specific area, you can select that level to start over from there. This will reset your progress, so I recommend completing the rest and then returning to what you missed. If you can’t find it by just traveling back to that specific area, then use the level select option to reset the area.
I give Spilled! 4.5 out of 5 stars.
This review for Spilled! was written on 26 March 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 11 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.
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