This takes a bit of explaining. Is a sorta-mod on Steam for an as-of-yet unreleased game by the name of Visceral Cleanup Detail. The game is described as a 'janitorial simulator' and puts you in the shoes of the poor sod who has to clean up the aftermath of an action movie. The original game has you clean up a space station after basically Doom 3 happened in it and left a lot of splattered monsters and humans and blood all over the place. This one puts you in the North Pole after Santa Claus flipped his shit and murdered everybody.

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And it's up to you to SAVE CHRISTMASS by cleaning elves and raindeer off the walls, essentially.With a description like that, you would probably think that Santa's Rampage is quite macabre. And it is, really. It deals heavily with blood, body parts and the aftermath of violence (though without actual violence happening on-screen). However, it does this in a kinda-sorta tongue-in-cheek manner, as well as a kinda-sorta matter-of-fact manner. It's difficult to explain, other than to say that the game is kind of like Papers, Please, in that it manages get you over the horrorshow you're looking at and instead make you see it like a job. You don't look at a pile of corpses as 'Oh my god!

What did Santa do to the elves!' But rather as 'OK, I need three boxes for the body parts and at least four buckets to mop the floor, but I have to mind the tight quarters so I don't knock anything over.' Santa's Rampage is a fascinating journey from utter horror to mundane work to finding a joy and entertainment in doing a good job.

Nuclear Toast described it as 'a game for OCD people,' and I guess it kind of fitsGraphics and design:This game is built in the Unreal 3 engine, so there really isn't much to say about it. It's the UDK - if you've seen the technical quality of one Unreal Engine game, you know the quality of all of them. To the game's credit, it does make good use of the engine without going overboard, and it has enough effort put into graphical fidelity to make it pretty interesting. Real-time item physics are of particular importance, as much of the game revolves around shoving ragdoll elves into disposal bins and hoping that if you force the thing in there hard enough, its legs will fit in the space between all the disembodied heads and torsos.

Unfortunately, the game's physics are not always up to par. Sometimes objects right themselves with such force they can send you flying, sometimes things clip through each other, and every time you carry a box with multiple things in it, you're deafened by the sound of them moving around in there, colliding into each other. Then again, this is still a work in progress.In terms of art style, though, I think Santa's Rampage is spot on! The location really does feel like santa's workship in every little detail.

It's a VERY large log cabin comprised of several rooms, an office and a reindeer pen in the basement. A warm fireplace bathes everything in a cozy orange glow, and peering outside the windows reveals snow-covered hills and pine trees. It's almost like a postcard. Well, if you ignore all the dismembered dead bodies lying everywhere, of course.

As macabre as it may be, though, the arrangement of the kills is also pretty creative. You'll ding an elf stabbed by about five different knives, you'll find elves hung from Christmas ornaments on the ceiling and so on. It's gruesome, but it does sort of paint a picture of the events which happened, if you really stop to think about it. I haven't played the original Viscera Cleanup Detail (it's not on Steam) but that honestly looks boring because it's a grey Unreal space station. This is far more entertaining because it looks like something you can recognise.Gameplay and systems:This, I feel, is where Santa's Workshop really shines, though also where it needs the most work. To succeed, the game requires you to accomplish two things: Clean up all the blood, bodily fluids and other things which stain, and also dispose of all physical evidence of violence such as body parts, shell casings, broken items and so on. To do this, you have three machines and three tools.

The tools you have are a future-mop which can take any stain off of any surface, your gloved hands with which you can carry stuff, and a 'sniffer' tool designed to detect stains and offending items. To make use of these tools, you have three important machines at your disposal. You have a bucket-dispensing machine which dispenses water buckets in which to clean your super-mop, bio-hazard crates in which to collect items to be incinerated, and the actual incinerator which in this case takes the form of Santa's fireplace.Generally speaking - and this may be just my own approach - tends to go like this.

You go into a bloody, nasty area and bring a few crates with you. You stuff them with corpses, bodyparts, guns, broken bottles, shotgun shells, building debris and whatever else you need to get rid of, then take them to the fireplace. In the process, you've tracked blood all over the place, so you clean up your footprints and return to the scene with several water buckets.

Then, you proceed to mop the blood off the floor, walls and ceiling, cleaning the mop as you go. You then take all your nasty bloody horrible buckets to the fireplace and incinerate them, too. Yeah, I know - weird, but it works. Once that's done, you go back to the location and admire the neat, clean environment while taking in the scent of pine freshness. A job well done! Well, unless you're a stickler for neatness, in which case you may also take the time to turn all the chairs upright and put them in place, set all the toys and present boxes back on the tables and make the place look not just clean but also NEAT. And then Nuclear Toast knocks over a bucket full of blood and have to clean it all over againOne important issue which REALLY needs to be addressed, however - and the reason I'm this explicit with the gameplay description - is the game has no tutorial whatsoever, or any help files.

The developer's site doesn't seem to have a manual and their forums don't seem to contain any description on how to play the game. Everything I'm telling you I had to deduce by myself by trial and error. Take the Sniffer, for instance. At no point does the game tell you what it is or how it works.

You just whip it out and start hitting buttons, whereupon it starts beeping. I've deduced that 'blue' means blood and stains while 'green' means items to be incinerated, and the faster/louder beeps mean I'm closer to the offending thing's location, but I've had to guess. Worse, I've never been able to succeed at the game because apparently I'm missing blood somewhere that I can't see - spots grow VERY faint as you clean them almost but not completely.

All the sniffer can tell me is that there's blood somewhat close, but not HOW close or where it is or if it's on the floor or the walls. Worst of all, stains can end up on the high ceiling, as I found out when Nuclear Toast exploded me with Santa's TNT and my gibs smeared my blood on the ceiling. You can't reach the ceiling at all unless you build a replica of the Tower of Babylon out of three-legged stools.In all, this is very much a work in progress and as such has some very obvious flaws. It is, however, being worked on quite actively. Browsing its forums, I've seen quite a few player suggestions from the original Alpha already implemented, like tracking bloody footprints or a device to find hidden blood stains (which doesn't work well, but at least exists in some capacity).Story and characters:There really isn't much of a story per se, but there is a lot of visual storytelling that you don't always see even in major titles. The actual written-down story goes something like this: Santa Claus, overworked, tired and frustrated with ceaseless selfish requests for presents, loses his mind and kills all the elves in his workshop.

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I don't know what happens with Santa himself (the game seems to allude that he was arrested), but you're on the clean-up crew for 'The Company' who want the workshop neat and tidy so they can take it over. And it's not actually as nasty as it sounds, because doing a good job of cleaning the place without destroying any of the toys or presents gives you the 'Christmas is saved!' Yes, you're actually really trying to save Christmas. OK, so Santa Claus went berserk and killed people.

But that doesn't mean Christmas itself has to be ruined because of it. Children all across the world can still get their presents and keep believing in the Christmas miracle, the rotten self-entitled little brats.And this is not (just) my hatred of children talking, by the way. Throughout Santa's workshop, you find a number of letters addressed to him. The ones from children all read along the lines of 'My mother only gave me such and such for a present. I want you to give me.' This is part of what I mean when I say 'visual storytelling.'

The letters littering Santa's office aren't text logs - they're just items that you can pick up off the ground and look at, same as any other item you can manipulate. You don't have to read them, you can just toss them in the bottom of a box filled with heads and headless corpses, then toss that in the fireplace.

In fact, if you ignore context, you'll miss out on most of what I think happened. Here's my reading of events.We start in Santa's office. On his desk are about 12 letters, all of them horrible. Entitled children demand presents, entitled grown-ups sue Santa for breaking into their house and 'stealing confectionery,' the elves union is pressuring Santa for higher wages and shorter work hours, he's several million in debt and his bills are overdue and so on. Then you look around the room and you notice A LOT of empty wisky bottles, along with a shotgun behind the desk. You walk outside and you start seeing elves gunned down in the main hall, along with several shot to pieces as they tried to run out of the cabin, right at the exit. You then see a huge hole in the wall where a door used to be.

Apparently the elves tried to barricade themselves in, but Santa blew it up with explosives, leaving a pile of debris and bodies. He went downstairs and started impaling elves to walls with reindeer horns, and apparently butchered his own reindeer to pieces. And right there, at the 'end' of the level, you see a large pile of TNT and a bunch of molotov cocktails.

Apparently Santa was trying to bring the whole place down, presumably when he was stopped and arrested.It is, admittedly, a pretty horrible story when you think about it. But again - that doesn't mean that Christmas has to be cancelled. It's your job to clean up the shop and make sure all the toys which have already been made survive and are delivered. Yay for saving Christmas!Conclusion:To me, Viscera Cleanup Detail was a very interesting experience. It's horrifying on the surface if you stop to think about it.

In fact, Nuclear Toast's first reaction upon entering Santa's workshop was 'Oooh! Or words to that effect. But none of it is your fault and none of it is fixable. Gameplay mechanics do a great job of emphasising that and detaching you from horror of the job and just turning it into a regular job. That in itself is an experience I feel everyone should try at least once. It's overall a fun game.

The controls are functional, the graphics are pretty good, the game's even funny at times. And it costs $2 right now on discount, down from $3. NT tells me that's not even a bus fare, though I don't know US prices.Honestly, I would heartily recommend this game. Yeah, it's just one short level, but it's so cheap that you might as well. It's a cool experience that the more introspective among you could take quite a bit out of, and it's a fun ride besides. Right now the game's very rough, but again - it costs two bloody dollars!

Get it and just sit on it to see how it develops, if you must.About the only reason I could think of for skipping this game would be if you're very intolerant of gore, since this game has A LOT of it. Lots of blood, lots of bodyparts, lots of bloody footprints, lots of pretty nasty deaths in aftermath. So if your stomach is easily upset, that's probably not for you. But for anyone else - seriously, get Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Workshop.

Contents Plot The Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage banner. Various notes and can be found in the workshop and office. Collectively, they imply that prior to the player's role in Santa's Rampage, Santa Claus had been under large amounts of stress from unpaid bills, outrageous requests from children, elf union strikes, a note from his brother Krampus asking for bail money, and even threats.Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa's Rampage. The scifi simulation game where players must clean up Santa’s gruesome Yuletide murder spree.Santa subsequently snapped under the pressure, purchasing several crates of 12-gauge shotgun rounds, steak knives, and dynamite sticks, and fashioning several makeshift molotov cocktails (likely under the influence of alcohol). Santa then went on a murder spree, mutilating several elves and reindeer, and destroyed parts of his workshop in the process. He left the scene through unknown means.

After these events, the company 'Polar Sanitation Co.' Employed the player and sent them to clean the workshop, where the player's role in Santa's Rampage begins. Level Briefings Brief The tragic events that unfolded at this workshop must in no way deter you from performing your duties in a manner befitting the company's reputation.

Your work here entails cleaning up the horrific aftermath of Mr Claus' unfortunate breakdown.This includes the obvious slaughter and any broken items and so forth. Please conduct yourself appropriately, as this assignment will reflect upon your permanent record. Fail to follow company guidelines and regulations, and you may find yourself without a job. Once your assignment is complete, the corporation will take ownership of the workshop and any remaining items and employees. Respawn Brief The careless work ethic of your predecessor led to their death, shaming the company!We require that you as a substitute fill this opening immediately.

Perform your duties in accordance with the company guidelines and regulations, or be replaced. Your performance will be evaluated at the end of the work day, and if it is satisfactory, you may be considered for promotion to acting Hygiene Technician and a marginal salary increase.

The company cannot afford yet another workplace safety lawsuit, so work responsibly and safely! Maps Map Key. WAL = dispenser. Slosh =. PID =. Punch =. ICB =.

Hat = Santa Hat Equipment. Bucket Dispenser.

Dispenser. Fireplace (in place of the ). (as of v1.05) Differences from Viscera Cleanup Detail The fireplace General. There is no Incinerator in the map.

Instead, there is a large fireplace. Santa's Rampage Free DownloadUnlike the incinerator, the fireplace can accumulate various messes. After disposing of body parts in the fireplace, the interior must be cleaned. Santa's Rampage lantern modelThe player's have been modified to appear red with white stripes. The Ice-Cold BangerLantern models have been changed to appear as small, four-sided boxes instead of cylinders. The light they produce is yellow (instead of the standard blue from regular VCD lanterns) and they flicker every so often. Other than cosmetic differences however, the lanterns function the same way, and may still leave scorch marks if dropped or knocked against objects.

2011 torrent. The broken box lantern appears no different than its 'off' mode.

Santa's Rampage includes a new skin of the called the Ice-Cold Banger.NOTE: This software does NOT interface with your vehicle.It appears red with a Christmas theme and Christmas-style songs. The radio is on by default. Santa's Rampage does not contain any equivalent tool to the, meaning that any items too high to reach can only be removed by stacking other objects on top of each other.Dispensers. The Slosh-O-Matic will occasionally dispense lit dynamite, which must immediately be submerged in water. For this reason it is recommended to keep a separate bucket of water beside the dispenser at all times.

One bucket of water, even a dirty one, can quench several sticks of dynamite. A bucket full of dynamite sticks can still be used to clean the mop or broom.

Primary Objectives In addition to the usual objectives of cleaning up all mess and disposing of trash, Santa's Rampage requires the following to perfectly clean it:. Destroy all knives, even though the does not detect them as. Avoid destroying Christmas items, unless attempting to earn.

Christmas items are: ball ornaments, candles, candy canes, present boxes, figurines, toy guns, and Santa hats. Viscera Cleanup Detail.

Dispose of TNT, dynamite sticks, and molotov cocktails. To avoid igniting them in the fireplace, they must be placed in buckets of water first. Secondary Objectives. Find all 33, place them into the, then fill out reports. In most VCD levels, PID first and last names are randomized. However in Santa's Rampage, the individual PID names are not randomized.

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Unfortunately, as of v1.092, when loading a saved game through the standalone version, a bug causes the names to become randomized.helpvo.