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Fresh Start

Fresh Start review

System: Switch
Release date: September 14, 2023
Developer: Awaken Realms
Publisher: Merge Games


Growing up, I never really believed that cleaning up could be a game. That was just a painfully transparent lie that my parents (no doubt inspired by Mary Poppins) told me in some effort to get me to tidy up, even knowing as I did that it was only going to get messed up again within five minutes. But as I grew older I learned that there was something very satisfying and rewarding about accomplishing a simple task, and Merge Games’ latest title, Fresh Start, aims to capitalize on that feeling through its cozy and relaxing gameplay. While it succeeds admirably on that front, it could have used a little more cleaning and polishing before it was brought over to the Switch, and the end result is a muddied experience that is tough to recommend.

Fresh Start launch trailer

To celebrate the launch of Fresh Start, a new trailer has dropped. Merge Games and Awaken Realms put the deep clean adventure on Switch this week.

We’ve got the following overview from Merge Games:

Fresh Start release date

Thanks to Merge Games and Awaken Realms, we have a release date for Fresh Start on Switch. It’ll be available digitally on September 14, 2023. The physical version will follow on October 13.

The relaxing deep clean adventure was confirmed for Nintendo’s console back in July. We know it would launch this year, but it wasn’t clear when.

Fresh Start

Publisher Merge Games, along with developer Awaken Realms, today confirmed plans to bring Fresh Start to Switch. It’ll be available by the end of 2023.

Fresh Start is a relaxing deep clean adventure in which players go on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful state. For the first time, it’ll be appearing on consoles.

Here’s some additional information:


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