🎭Dripping With Parody, Sarcasm, and Humor🎭

Through the casual intermixing of existing Smiling Cat game worlds, a new world called “Parallodia” was accidentally created during the development of Dehoarder 2. The whole world seems to exist as a parody to our world. There are some anachronistic tendencies, and it appears to be our world as seen through the fun house mirror, you know, the mirror that makes us look silly and ridiculous. Jokes hide everywhere, even in the names of simple things.

🏡Full House and Yard to Dehoard🏡

A two bedroom, one bath single family home set on a lot spanning over half an acre provides the perfect setting for your dehoarding adventures. Similar neighboring houses stretch on as far as the eye can see, and wooded hills back up to every lot. Cars drive by, birds soar, and occasionally a plane from the local airport passes overhead. At night, bask in the chorus of crickets under the full moon.

💰Sell Junk in an Interactive Market💰

Sell your junk on eJunk, the premier auction site for hoards of stuff. Post judiciously, though, because if you oversaturate the market, bid prices will plummet. Play the market to your advantage by selling the hottest items.

🍳Cook for Healthy Eating – Or Just Order Pizza🍕

Combine ingredients in the kitchen to create nourishing meals. Or if you don’t have the time and energy for all of that fuss (or if the kitchen is an unsanitary mess), just order out for pizza. But remember – choices matter!

🚧Mend Fences with Neighbors🚧

Harry’s neighbors are understandably frustrated with Harry’s behavior up until now, and some of them handle it better than others. Some will still try to help Harry, but others may be downright hostile and assaultive. It’s up to you to set things right so that the neighborhood can live in harmony.

🚑Life Happens Whether We Want It To Or Not🚒

You must be prepared for anything – alien invasions, neighborhood bullies, overzealous investigators, malicious pranksters, lycanthropy, extreme inclement weather, and fire, to name a few.

🪑Buy Custom Furnishings, Redecorate Your Way🪑

Grab one of your hundreds of furniture catalogs that are laying around and order some furniture. Need furnishings to keep our hero entertained, happy, and healthy? Interactive furnishings allow you to rest, take leisure, and perform other activities. Place furnishings anywhere you can find a clear spot – provided you can find a clear spot.

🔨Remodel the Entire House🔧

As part of your quest for renewal, you can refinish and replace various aspects of the house to reflect your personal taste. Want bright yellow siding with purple trim? You got it. Wood panel walls from the 1970’s? Sure, why not. But what will the judges from “Nicer Homes (than yours)” magazine have to say about it?

📈Get a Job, Advance Your Career📉

The daily newspaper’s help wanted section can help you find an entry level job of your choice. Find hours and pay that are suitable for you and go to work! If you perform well at your job, special things may happen. You may even get to save the world or become a Movietown legend!

🌷Tend Gardens for More Beauty🌷

Transform your gardens from weed-choked tangles to beautiful floral presentations. Nurture desirable plants with water and fertilizer, and kill off weeds with herbicide.

🐀Rid Your Home of Vermin🦟

The cockroaches from the first Dehoarder game are back, and they have evolved! In addition there are also flies, mosquitoes, mice, and rats to contend with. Ridding the house of vermin will go a long way toward making a healthier environment to live in, though eradication is only temporary if the mess that drew the vermin remains.

🧰Make it Your Own With Modding 🧰

Dehoarder 2 is inherently moddable, built so that even the base game is a mod. Using the Unity 3D Editor and Lua scripting, create mods using the game’s increasingly-well documented modding and scripting system, using the same interfaces used by the developer to build the game. Then, share your creations with the world!

I’ve even created a public Modding Sample Project​ to help get everyone started.

“Dehoarder 2” is a sequel to my Ludum Dare 26 entry “Dehoarder“, as featured in Let’s Play videos by RockLeeSmile and captnduck. In the original game, you take control of a character in a one-room house, and are tasked with ridding yourself of various junk. In a fashion reminiscent of Katamari games, you must dispose of lower-value junk before you can stand to part with higher-value items.

You can play the original Dehoarder game for free on itch.io:

❓FAQs ❓

• Q. How long have you been working on this game?
  • A. Since August 2014.
• Q. Why is this game taking so long to make?
  • A. Life, dude. Plus this is a much bigger game than I thought it was going to be. Up until April 2022, Smiling Cat Entertainment was only a part-time endeavor for me. Plus from about late 2020 until mid 2021, I was kind of burned out and had to reboot myself with a different project (Prepare For Warp). It wasn’t until July 2022 that I was actually able to start focusing on Dehoarder 2 full time.
• Q. Why a game about hoarding?
  • A. The concept came about through brainstorming ideas to fit the theme for the Ludum Dare for which Dehoarder was written. The theme was minimalism, so I decided to make a game about minimalizing one’s lifestyle.
• Q. Can this game be used to help real life hoarders?
  • A. I’m not sure. I can see where it might be helpful, though any potential benefit would probably need to be studied in a clinical, scientific setting. My intent is to create an engaging, fun, and entertaining game. If it turns out that is able to help people, so much the better.
• Q. Did you create all of the models in the game?
  • A. Some, but not all. The house itself is my creation, as is the terrain. Many of the better-looking junk and furniture models were created by Arvex, and many others were created by me in Blender. The characters are of my design and were created using MakeHuman. Foliage, vehicles, vermin, animals, and remaining furnishings and junk were acquired from the Unity Asset Store.
• Q. Are you working on this full time?
  • A. Although Smiling Cat Entertainment is a full-time endeavor for me, I do still need to generate regular income, which at this point in Smiling Cat’s development requires taking on contract development work. I am working on Dehoarder 2 as that contract work allows.