Moon Sweepers

The toothbrush in Moon Sweepers is not a joke item, it is the only tool the Lunar Surface Department could afford. Your crew is sent to clear the dust off the entire Moon, the budget covered exactly one toothbrush, and everything else, from vehicles to robots, has to be earned by selling the dust you scrub up.

Genre	Co-op cleaning simulation
Players	Solo or co-op for up to 16
Employer	The Lunar Surface Department
Achievements	33

The Moon Sweepers Work Loop

You collect lunar dust, carry it to a collection point, ship it off for payment and spend the money on better equipment. When your container fills up, you take it back and launch it into space to get paid. At first this is painfully slow, which is exactly the point, because the satisfaction comes from turning a hopeless manual job into an efficient operation.

Every early upgrade feels huge.

Carrying capacity and better cleaning tools are the first priorities. Placing collection points near the area you are working on saves long walks, and players who keep sprinting back across the map with a full container waste most of their shift.

Upgrades, Suit Gear and Vehicles

Progression runs through an upgrade matrix of 23 upgrades spread across five branches, plus five pieces of suit gear: the Tool Belt, Forward Jetpack, Gravity Boots, Helmet Lamp and Night Vision Goggles. The lamp and goggles keep you working through the lunar night, while the jetpack and boots help you move around more easily.

Vehicles eventually take over the heavy lifting, letting you clean big strips of the surface at once.

Players who love incremental progression enjoy watching the numbers grow, and the moment you swap the toothbrush for your first cleaning vehicle is the one almost everyone mentions.

Automation With J.O.O.N.A.S. Robots and the Packager

Automation is what gives the game its long-term appeal. J.O.O.N.A.S. robots, the Packager and processing buildings let you build a cleaning business that runs while you focus elsewhere. Optimisers spend hours rearranging setups to squeeze out more efficiency.

The scale is enormous. The Moon is divided into 163,842 regions, which the game calls sectors, and a sector counts as done when 1% of its dust or less remains.

Right-clicking the map to set waypoints and teleporting between stations you have found are small habits that save a lot of time as your territory grows.

Co-op Chaos and Honest Rough Edges

Up to 16 players can clean together, and the game is clearly built for groups. Splitting jobs between collection, transport and building turns the Moon into a shared project. Solo play works too, though it is slower and suits streamers or patient players best.

The launch period had crashes and multiplayer bugs, which the developers acknowledged and patched over several updates.

Comparisons with PowerWash Simulator come up constantly. The difference players highlight is scope: instead of one job at a time, Moon Sweepers gives you the entire Moon as one job.

Moon Sweepers Questions

How many players can play Moon Sweepers together?

Up to 16 players can cooperate, and solo play is supported. Large groups can divide cleaning, transport and automation tasks to progress much faster.

What should you upgrade first?

Focus on carrying capacity and better cleaning tools, then place collection points close to your work area. After that, the Helmet Lamp and Night Vision Goggles help you keep working through the lunar night.

When is the Moon fully clean?

All 163,842 sectors must be done, and a sector counts as done when 1% of its dust or less remains. The ending plays once every sector is complete.

Moon Sweepers starts with one toothbrush and a hopeless assignment from the Lunar Surface Department, but J.O.O.N.A.S. robots, the Packager and a crew of friends can turn that toothbrush into a cleaning empire big enough to finish the whole Moon.