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Lunar Sweepers vs Moon Sweepers

Searching for "Lunar Sweepers" usually lands on the wrong thing. In Moon Sweepers it is a vehicle, not a game — and the name gets confused with several unrelated titles.
Type
Name disambiguation
Vehicle price
$2,500
Updated
26 Oct 2026

Quick answer

Lunar Sweepers is not a separate game. In Moon Sweepers, the Lunar Sweeper is a $2,500 cleaning vehicle with three brushes, a 2.8 metre cleaning strip and a 1,200 kg hopper. If you saw the phrase in a video about a co-op moon cleaning game, that is what it referred to.

ConfirmedWhere the ambiguity comes from

The vehicle is one of the strongest purchases in the game, so guides and videos mention "Lunar Sweeper" constantly. Without the "Moon" in front, it reads like a title.

The Lunar Sweeper vehicle

Lunar Sweeper specifications
SpecValue
Price$2,500
RequiresGarage ($200) to store and deploy it
BrushesThree
Cleaning width2.8 metres
Hopper capacity1,200 kg
CabEnclosed
Position in the rangeFourth of five vehicles, above the Crew Transport Van
The Lunar Sweeper vehicle in Moon Sweepers showing three orange rotary brushes cleaning a wide path
The Lunar Sweeper: three brushes, 2.8 metres of coverage, and the point where hand tools stop being worth upgrading.Official Steam screenshot, copyright DragDrop Games. Used for identification and commentary.

Its role in progression is to be the sensible mid-to-late purchase. It costs half what the Mega Vacuum Rover does while covering 70% of its width, and its 1,200 kg hopper is large enough that you rarely return mid-run. The vehicle guide covers the full comparison.

Other things called Sweepers

Several unrelated works share parts of the name, and search engines mix them freely.

Titles and terms often confused with Moon Sweepers
NameWhat it actually isRelationship
Moon SweepersDragDrop Games' 2026 co-op lunar cleaning gameThe game this site covers
Lunar SweeperA $2,500 cleaning vehicle inside Moon SweepersIn-game object
Space SweepersA 2021 Korean science fiction filmUnrelated
MoonsweeperA 1983 Atari 2600 shooterUnrelated, similar name
Project Moon — SweepersA faction in the Project Moon gamesUnrelated fictional group
MinesweeperThe classic puzzle gameUnrelated, shares the suffix

NoteThe 1983 Moonsweeper is the oldest collision

The Atari title predates everything else here and uses almost the same name with no space. If you are looking for retro space shooting, that is a different game entirely.

How to tell them apart

Three quick checks:

  1. Is it a game about cleaning? Moon Sweepers is a cleaning and automation sim. Space Sweepers is a film; Moonsweeper is a shooter.
  2. Does it mention a toothbrush? That is almost certainly Moon Sweepers — it is the game's signature opening.
  3. Does it mention 16 players? Also Moon Sweepers. Sixteen-player co-op is the marketing hook.

If what you actually want is the game itself, start with what Moon Sweepers is like to play, or go straight to the beginner guide.

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