Some of the appeal of VCD is it’s not a regular janitor job. The messes you clean up are basically hollywood set pieces and you can optionally play detective in your report. Not to forget that just like Portal 2, you can play it coop and accidentally your friends in hilarious ways.
It might work in TU but only if you make it tell a story in some way, like in VCD:
- Evil catsacks have partied and recklessly left behind a mess! Clean it up to find clues to their location so you can bring them to justice. (Finishing the event leads you to a catsack lootdrop. Nothing speaks justice like opening up criminals and claiming their internals.)
- We don’t know what happened here but there’s strange machinery just all over everything. Collect it, assemble it and don’t find it’s a crashed UFO you can decorate your condo with or just sell for units because if you found that, there’d be knocking on a door that officially never existed on your house that was sadly caught in a recent wildfire.
- Rob here! See this stuff all over the floor? That was my inventory! If you bring it to my shop and sort it back in I’ll give you a discount until this event cools down and you can do it all over again! Or not! More profit for me!