Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files Is Out Now on Steam

New Clique Releases , Steam , Game Announcement · Brandon Egolf ·
The Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files logo over a pixel-art plain of ember fires at sunset

Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files is out today on Steam for $3.99, on Windows and macOS, and it plays on Steam Deck. It's a cozy sorting game from Clique Games, made in-house.

A vandal got to the wiki

It's March 2007. Plains of Embercraft: Online is an MMO with a devoted fan wiki, The unOfficial Embercraft Wiki, and at the heart of the wiki is its item catalogue, The Embercraft Item Vault. At 3:12 one morning, a user called Nullbane deleted every item in it. Without the Vault, basically no page on the wiki works.

You are the new moderator. The deletion log is 10,324 items long, and you work it down by hand, in a fictional 2007 browser called Corvid Navigator 7.

Route, sort, place

Every deleted item still has its icon, so you can always see what it is. The work is figuring out where it goes: which of seven departments, which of 27 shelves, which row. Drag it to its department, sort it onto its shelf, and place it in its row. When the last copy lands, the row settles, and the page around it starts to repair itself.

There's no countdown and no penalty for a wrong drop, and Ctrl+Z takes back anything. A stopwatch runs if you want to race it.

What's in it

  • 10,324 items to restore, drawn from 631 hand-drawn pixel icons.
  • Twelve userscripts from Sysop_Wren, the site owner, bought with the points you earn. They include Highlight, Multiselect (up to 500 items in one drag), PlacementCheck, and SortBot, a little brass bot who files for you while you work.
  • A wiki that comes back to life. Departments repair as they fill, the Item Vault opens item by item, and the Main Page's broken pictures come back as the site does.
  • A story on your talk page. More than forty messages arrive as you work, from the site owner, the regulars, the spammers and the wiki's own newsletter. The official forums and the publisher's website are there to browse too.
  • Three challenges for when the wiki is whole: Category Sprint, True Janitor and Hacker. And there's something locked on the menu for after that.
  • Seven browser skins, three icon sizes, 29 Steam achievements, Steam Cloud saves, and leaderboards for every challenge.

See the official site

We built the game its own page at clique.games/deletedwiki. It opens as the official website for Plains of Embercraft: Online, straight out of 2004. Scroll down and see what happens.

Get Deleted Wiki: Clean Up the Lost Files on Steam for $3.99.