Diaries Of A Spaceport Janitor

A sun-blasted alien spaceport becomes an unlikely prison in this surreal first-person anti-adventure. You play an Alaensee janitor whose subsidized job consists of collecting discarded junk and feeding it into an incinerator, all while dreaming of earning enough to escape Xabran’s Rock. The setting feels grimy, strange, and oddly funny: crowded markets, obscure religious rites, bizarre food stalls, and decaying infrastructure create a place that is vibrant without ever feeling welcoming. Rather than casting you as a hero, Diaries Of A Spaceport Janitor makes you a small, tired worker trying to survive a routine that seems designed to continue forever.

Most of your time goes into wandering the port’s tangled streets, spotting trash, and deciding what to burn for cash. Money pays for meals, lottery tickets, tools, rituals, and other necessities, while hunger and the passage of time keep daily life from becoming entirely aimless. Navigation matters because the city is intentionally confusing, with plazas, alleys, bridges, underground passages, and landmarks gradually becoming familiar through repetition rather than a conventional map-driven structure. Curiosity can lead to hidden areas and stranger encounters, but it can also saddle the janitor with a supernatural curse that demands offerings, prayers, lucky charms, and visits to local occult specialists.

What stands out is the commitment to mundanity: trash collection is not a brief joke before the real adventure begins, but the central act around which the entire experience turns. Its low-resolution, intensely colored visual style and alien vocabulary give the world a distinctly off-kilter personality, somewhere between a weird science-fiction travel diary and an oppressive urban sim. Progress is deliberately slow, cryptic, and sometimes frustrating, making it better suited to patient players who enjoy atmosphere, observation, and unconventional storytelling over clear objectives. Fans of the unsettling everyday worlds in games like Pathologic or the exploratory strangeness of Yume Nikki may find a memorable cult oddity here, while players seeking action or constant rewards should look elsewhere.