Open now · By request
Down the Drain playtest
by smallproblems
Hover a garbage disposal over a swirling sink of leftovers, bugs and cutlery. Grind it all, drop the haul through a plinko for cash, buy upgrades and grow the drain, one size at a time, from a kitchen sink to a sewage plant.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- smallproblems
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Down the Drain playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Down the Drain playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Capsule art is AI generated
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Down the Drain
Feed the drain. Grow it. Swallow the kitchen.
Move your grinder over the food swirling round the sink. There is nothing to click: whatever is under it gets chewed up. Every scrap pays, and every scrap makes the drain a little bigger.
When the tap stops, your haul drops through the Pipeworks, a plinko of pipes and pegs, and comes out as cash for the next upgrade. Then turn the tap back on.
What's in the sink
- Six kitchens a run: a kitchen sink, a farmhouse sink, a restaurant dish pit, a food court, the sewer main and a treatment plant.
- Food that fights back: batteries that zap their neighbours, mouldy fruit that leaves a stink cloud, greasy amber leftovers worth triple, cans that burst, and rats and gulls that steal your dinner.
- A clog in every kitchen, and a boss fatberg to break before you move on. At the very end: the Big Clog.
- Almost 200 upgrades on a branching board: sharper teeth, a wider grinder, chain reactions, grease fires, a longer tap.
- Keys and toolboxes turn up in the sink and upgrade the Pipeworks.
- The Lost & Found: 24 odd things people dropped down the sink, each with its own bonus. A Scrapbook of 132 things you have ground. 35 goals.
- Lay a pipe when you are done and play again somewhere new: down at the Harbour there is a fish market where the tide comes and goes, and a cruise ship galley.
A short one
A first run takes two to three hours. Play with a mouse, a finger, the keyboard or a gamepad. Tired hands? Turn on Auto-grind in Settings.
From the game's Steam page.
