Vacuum by Calm Machines

Meet your next favorite little cleaner. Make satisfying paths through 12 colorful rooms and 10 pools, customize your machine, and play at your own pace.

Vacuum by Calm Machines is for children who enjoy watching machines work. They build their own vacuum and guide it across a dirty floor, clearing a path as they go. They can stay in a room for as long as they like, without a timer or a game-over screen.

In the Workshop, your child chooses the machine's colour, wheels, eyes and costume, then gives it a name. They can also choose which objects appear on the floor. Their choices carry into the game, where they steer the machine by touching and holding the screen.

Version 2.0 includes 12 rooms and 10 pool styles. The room robot cleans inside the house, while the pool cleaner collects dirt from the pool floor. Choosing a machine determines where your child plays. Add dirt starts another round in the same space, and Next room moves to another room or pool whenever they are ready.

I built Calm Machines as a parent of neurodivergent children. I wanted a game that let a child spend time with an interest without being hurried along. Repeated cleaning is the activity, and finishing a room leaves the child free to keep driving or start again. Sound can be switched off in the game menu.

The game works offline and requires no account. Machine designs and settings stay on your device, and the app collects no data. One purchase includes all rooms, pools and customization options. There are no ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases or trial periods.

Calm Machines is designed for play. It makes no therapeutic or clinical claims.