u/phlippkick — reddlx

Haunted Cleaner, a game about tidying up haunted locations and helping ghosts find peace!

Heya everyone 👻

My friend and I have been working on our cutesy and relaxed tidy-up sim for almost a year now. It’s called Haunted Cleaner and we finally feel ready to share it with you (please be honest, but nice 🥹) and hopefully gather some feedback!

About our game: You play a professional cleaner with the psychic ability to communicate with ghosts. Your clients contact you to clean up their haunted locations, where by tidying the space, doing small chores and solving light puzzles, you will learn more about the ghosts and help them to eventually move on.

The game focuses on relaxing, simple mechanics and a heart-felt story, is low stress and easy to get into. We’d love to hear your thoughts! (:

Check us out on Steam. A wishlist would be boo-tiful 😄

u/phlippkick — 9 days ago

▲ 4 r/SocialMediaMarketing+1 crossposts

Does sharing a TikTok account across two countries (Germany + Indonesia) kill your FYP reach? Need Advice!

I'm a small game developer just starting out with social media. Mostly testing out different content formats to share what I'm working on. Decided to focus on Tiktok since other devs in a similar genre are doing really well there.

Last week I tried posting consistently and every single video stayed at 0 views.

The timeline:

Posted casually late last year → 300 to 500 views per video, felt normal
Last video before the break had a 1 month gap → only 75 views
Took a break (Dec to May), decided May '26 to finally focus on marketing
Posted every day from May 7th onwards
Every video since: 0 - 7 views (only from me or friends)

I checked Traffic Source in analytics:

Personal Profile: 98.1%
For You: 0.5%
Search: 1.4%

Tiktok is basically not distributing the videos to anyone new at all.

I did some research: We have no deleted videos. Account check came back clean. No policy violations I know of. No blacklisted keywords. Instagram and YouTube Shorts are performing as expected - this seems Tiktok specific.

Things I'm wondering about:

I share the account with my co-founder – she's in Germany, I'm in Indonesia. Could the location switching trigger something?
I sometimes use a VPN on my laptop for Reddit (blocked in Indonesia), but I try never for Tiktok (though sometimes I leave it on by accident) Could that still be a factor?
Did posting daily after a long break hurt us? Content-wise we didn't change much, just trying new formats.
Should we take a 7-day break (shorter or longer), and come back?
My co-founder suggested making two separate accounts to avoid the location/VPN issue. Worth it or overkill?

Has anyone been in this situation? How did you get FYP distribution back once it dropped this low? I'd much appreciate any advise since I really feel lost about this 🙏

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u/phlippkick — 10 days ago

▲ 72 r/cozygames

My cozy ghostly tidy‑up sim – Day 1 vs 6 months ago vs now 👻

Hi r/cozygamers ✌️ I’m Philipp, one half of a indie dev team. Together with my friend Joy, I'm working on a relaxed tidy-up and decoration sim with a twist: you’re cleaning spaces that are haunted by cute ghosts. 👻 The game is called Haunted Cleaner and as a player you need to help these ghosts solve their unfinished business so they can finally move on.

As you tidy up, remove trash, resolve chores and solve light puzzles each ghost will open up a bit more and tell you about their past and why they still linger.

We are still working hard on releasing a first demo so for now I’m sharing a little progress update: day 1 vs how the game looked 6 months ago and how it looks now. If you have any feedback for us or you maybe have a cool idea of what to add, we’d be super happy to hear about it (positive or negative, but please be nice 🥲).

🤫 We're also trying to setup a newsletter which is everything but easy. If anyone is interested you can find it on our website https://headkino.com .

Until next time (:

u/phlippkick — 12 days ago