7 Nights with Vroombi is a haunted house horror game where you play as a robot vacuum

7 Nights with Vroombi launched today on Steam, casting you as a robot vacuum cleaner trapped in a haunted house across seven increasingly unsettling nights.

Each night you leave your charging nook with one goal — hoover up a set amount of dust particles — but the house has other ideas. Furniture moves on its own, something moans behind closed doors, and the dust itself lies in suspiciously ornate patterns. The creepiest touch might be the handwritten notes and doodles left by a child named Lily, which start as helpful tips about your scanner button and quickly slide into lines like "You can't leave, can you, Mr Vroombi?"

The premise is a neat collision of mundane domestic frustration and slow-burn horror — the robot vacuum as reluctant protagonist is a genuinely fresh angle in a genre that usually defaults to flashlights and jump scares. Playing as a machine that can't run, can't fight, and can't even fully understand what's happening around it creates a specific kind of dread that's hard to manufacture any other way.

Whether Lily is a lonely kid, something worse, or — as early impressions suggest — possibly Satan, is presumably what the seven nights are for.