# Critical Mess

Summer DB entity ID: 97a8cc11\-cc84\-48db\-8d08\-88a352c7e697

Steam App ID: 780000

Critical Mess puts you in the role of a newly minted waste management employee\. Your main tool is the shovel, which you'll use to gather garbage into a designated hole\. Buy power\-ups using your meager wages to help get the job done\. Be quick before the mess\-o\-meter \(a metric that measures the level of messiness in the room\) reaches a full 100%\. Your continued employment is on the line\! Critical Mess Gives You:   Unique waste disposal gameplay   Zany power\-ups   Fully simulated physics   Dozens of waste items   A variety of different room layouts   The perfect experience to fill a few moments in between life's demands as you try to beat your best time   Critical Mess Doesn't Give You:   Story with a beginning, middle, and end   Online co\-op       DK VIP Lounge is a one man shop\. As such, this is not a huge game bursting at the seams with content\. Critical Mess is a simple, endless game where you chase your best time\. The aim is to provide players with short bursts of frantic gameplay as they try to keep up with the onslaught of garbage\. All for the price of an energy drink\. Hope you have fun, thanks\.    \-Daniel Kim, DK VIP Lounge

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: DK VIP Lounge

- Publisher: DK VIP Lounge

- Release date: Jan 24, 2018

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Steam Leaderboards, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_e326fcad392811365bc108caeee653341a71120b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_fbfd970e7efe35865f3b39cfccaf2af3f2afc951\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_c337f46ada7dd44794f48c3b55ab9ba67b97089a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_37828c4e8b28eea5f0be16040cdd248280969178\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_708c0dee5b4af1a7f7e194a8f389101bca4ec7e7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_b2e3587cf68be70259d1cb0132941fefaf67e089\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_9e721392bae5d935b66d8ce36c6a79a357f8b6bc\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/780000/ss\_2c4b6c7f28d2c850a79fa65f668eac8d63c45032\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1518805098

- Price: 399 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 9

- Steam positive reviews: 7

- Steam negative reviews: 2

- Steam positive percentage: 77.77777777777777%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/97a8cc11-cc84-48db-8d08-88a352c7e697/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/97a8cc11-cc84-48db-8d08-88a352c7e697/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T08:05:51\.891457\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T08:05:54\.628058\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T08:05:52\.935196\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/780000/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/97a8cc11-cc84-48db-8d08-88a352c7e697)