Ocean Cleaner Idle

Ocean Cleaner Idle is an incremental solarpunk game. Use your mouse to pick up plastic and other trash from the ocean. Recycle trash into materials to upgrade your ship.

When Meerlinda rose to the surface, she was greeted with an awful sight! To her disgust there was a huge mass of waste polluting the waters. She found out that humans have been using the oceans as a garbage dump for all of their history. Furious about the mess, but not discouraged by it, she decides to fix the problem. She embarks on a mission to clean it all up!

Meerlinda’s ship Gentle Breeze combines Atlantean shipbuilding traditions with their latest technology. Its biomimetic hull is streamlined like a fish and built from sustainable materials. It is not reliant on fossil fuels as it is propelled by sails and powered by solar energy. It uses nets, traps and filters to collect seaborne trash.

Meerlinda uses recycled materials to upgrade her ship. The materials are split into four Tiers: plastic, cellulose, glass and metal. Upgrades help you clean the ocean faster. Some upgrades will collect trash automatically for the idle play experience.

• Manual and automatic trash collection

• Multiple ship upgrades

• 10 levels for each upgrade

• 4 different material tiers

• Waves of trash

Our Motivation

We were inspired to make our game by a real world problem that afflicts sea life around the world. It hurts and kills animals trapped in it. Microplastics carry toxic chemicals and accumulate in the food chain. There are already millions of tons of trash in the oceans and millions more are added every year. The size of the trash varies from microscopic pieces to whole ships abandoned to the ocean bottom. Most of the trash is plastic, but any material produced can end up there. Unfortunately cleaning up the oceans is not easy in real life. The best way to tackle the problem is to reduce the amount of trash that ends up in the ocean. 

What Can I Do?

• Reduce consumption of single-use products

• Choose products packaged in re-usable or biodegradable materials

• Instead of buying fast fashion, consider drift shopping

• Don’t buy products with microbeads in them

• Recycle your trash and dispose of it properly 

• Avoid seafood, and if you do eat it buy only from MSC certified producers to reduce trash from abandoned fishing nets

• Support sustainable businesses, organizations and governments

• Demonstrate your opinion

• Demand laws to protect the oceans

• Participate in coast cleanups and other local pro-environmental activities

Global Ocean Conservation Organizations:

• Plastic Soup Foundation

• Oceana

• The Ocean Project

• Ocean Conservancy

• Oceanic Preservation Society

• Oceanic Society

• ProtectedSeas

• Marine Stewardship Council

• Marine Conservation Institute

• Ocean Wise Conservation Association

• International Programme on the State of the Ocean

• Waitt Institute

• The World Wildlife Fund

• Greenpeace

Baltic Sea Conservation Organizations:

• Baltic Sea Action Group

• The John Nurminen Foundation

• The Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation

• The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission aka. the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)

Help us to find a charity to donate part of our earnings to help in this cause. Write to us in “murmuringgrove (at) ” or join our Discord.