The Cleaner

The Cleaner is a solo-developed hardcore action game that launched on May 5, 2022 after roughly four years of development. The developer, Sorkin, described the launch as the culmination of that effort and framed the game as a complete experience — no storyline, no cutscenes, just play. In the weeks immediately following launch, a flurry of patches (1.01 through 1.04Bis, released between May 6 and June 1, 2022) addressed visual polish, level design tweaks, bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements. These are all consistent with a solo developer tidying up a just-shipped finished product. There have been no news posts of any kind since June 1, 2022 — over four years of silence. No DLC has been announced or listed. No roadmap, expansion, or future content of any kind has ever been communicated. The store description makes no mention of post-launch content plans. The game launched as a complete, self-contained package and has received no further content since its post-launch polish period ended in mid-2022.