
Shiny New World: Demon Clean-up is a satirical co-op horror game where you and your colleagues clean up demonic crime scenes – packed with jump scares, dark humor, and mysterious lore.
Coop comedy horror adventure
In development
LOGLINE
Shiny New World: Demon Clean-Up is een cross-media project (film + game) about a demon-cleaning company that specializes in removing traces of supernatural incidents so society can keep pretending everything is fine. As demonic chaos seeps through the cracks of everyday life, cleaners are sent to sanitize the evidence – both literally and morally. Film and game explore the same central question:
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TURN EVIL INTO JUST ANOTHER JOB?

Grab your mop, your plunger, and your courage — the city won’t clean itself. Step into the world of Shiny New World: Demon Clean-Up, a darkly comedic co-op adventure where you and your partner scrub away the aftermath of demonic mayhem. Whether it’s mopping up cursed blood, neutralizing possessed furniture, or calming an over-caffeinated demon, teamwork is your strongest weapon. Every shift brings a new supernatural mess… and a new story behind the stains.

Work together — or trip over each other — as you navigate haunted suburbs, corporate towers, and infernal nightclubs crawling with demonic residue. Each cleaner has their own strengths: one fast and tactical, the other slow but mighty. Coordinate your gadgets, communicate under pressure, and improvise when hell breaks loose. Demon Clean-Up turns teamwork into comedy, panic, and triumph all at once.

Underneath the chaos lies an oddly beautiful world — a blend of film-like storytelling and handcrafted horror design. Each location tells its own twisted story, from eerie laundromats to blood-soaked penthouses. Discover fragments of the human world colliding with the infernal, wrapped in cinematic visuals and a signature blend of humor and darkness. When the job’s done… maybe you’ll start to wonder what’s really worth saving.
THE GAME
You play as part of the Demon Clean-Up crew, dispatched to “sanitize” chaotic scenes after demonic outbreaks. Each mission begins with a mess – blood, fire, corrupted matter – and ends with a report, bonuses, and paperwork. But the longer you work, the more the job starts to feel wrong. Are you helping keep the peace, or enabling a system that hides its own corruption?
GAMEPLAY COMBINES CO-OP STRATEGY, ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING, AND MORAL CHOICE:

Clean efficiently, meet quotas, and suppress demonic entities to keep your paycheck - and your humanity.

Investigate what really happened, hide evidence from your supervisors, or protect demons who seem more human than your employers.

Each job forces you to balance safety, ethics, and sanity, as the line between cleaning and covering-up blurs.
Mechanically, it merges resource management (time, energy, tools) with narrative discovery and co-op tension; every decision changes how your partner and the world perceive you.
THEMATICS
Demon Clean-Up uses horror and humor to examine moral outsourcing and emotional labor in modern systems. It’s about workers cleaning up the messes of those in power – whether literal or metaphorical – and how survival often depends on complicity.
The demons themselves become symbols of what society represses: anger, trauma, difference. Cleaning them up becomes a metaphor for the forced normalization of chaos – polishing over the monstrous parts of ourselves to stay employable, acceptable, or loved. At its core, Demon Clean-Up asks:
GENRE & TONE
A mix of dark comedy, workplace satire, and supernatural horror, set in a stylized world where absurd bureaucracy meets infernal chaos.
Think Ghostbusters meets Brazil meets Inside — a world where hell is corporate, empathy is regulated, and the true horror is how normal it all feels.
HOW MUCH DIRT ARE WE WILLING TO WASH AWAY BEFORE WE LOSE OUR REFLECTION?

Shiny New World is a surprising and quirky horror comedy from director Jan van Gorkum. Produced by Make Way Film.
Comedy Horror
In development
THE FILM
The feature film Shiny New World tells the story of fifty year old Barry, a down on his luck carpenter, who gets caught up in a blood-soaked world of demons in human disguise and an eccentric cleaning company run by these creatures to protect their community.
In the world of Shiny New World, demons live among us. Accidentally summoned by drunken teenagers and occult cults who had no idea what they were doing. Demons that hide in plain sight, and try to coexist with humans. Many of them are benign beings who have managed to find their place. However, a dangerous demon named Reeza – who’s trapped inside her human form – has grown tired of pretending to be something she’s not and is developing a substance that can turn demons back into their wild, bloodthirsty form.
A twist of fate turns Barry into the unlikely hero who must face Reeza.
GENRE & TONE
Shiny New World will be a 90 minute horror comedy aimed at an international horror and comedy audience. The film is an exciting and original mix of dark comedy, workplace satire, and supernatural horror.
It’s a throwback to classic horror comedies from the 80s and 90s, like Evil Dead 2 and Braindead, combined with the dark humor of more recent genre films like What We Do In The Shadows and Zombieland.
THEMATICS
Barry’s journey is a tale of finding your true purpose in life in an unexpected way and embracing it. Learning to accept yourself and the situation you’re in also is a recurring theme. You can try to make the best of it – like Barry does – or aggressively resist it like antagonist Reeza, which sends her in a downward spiral.
A third theme is that by helping others, Barry’s own life becomes richer and happier. Despite the outlandish things that happen in the story, its themes are very human and interconnected. Themes that aren’t usually quickly associated with genre films – which makes it surprising and refreshing – but they fit perfectly with this story, thanks to the main character Barry, who struggles with himself and ultimately finds his way in life.
Combined with the fact that demons in the film are basically victims of humans who have done stupid things, it creates an unique, funny and creepy world for both horror and comedy audiences.






