Seriously. It's a game where you play as someone who operates a small business, washing things with a pressure washer for hire. There are a variety of nozzles and attachments. There are detergents that work best on different surfaces. There are (occasionally bizarre) text messages from your clients while you're washing their things. There are a lot of whooshing and spattering sound effects.

It is preposterously satisfying.

It's in Steam early access, but appears largely complete, with everything seeming to work like it should; I suspect the gameplay functions are finished, and what they're working on now is mostly adding more jobs (there are already quite a few for what is technically a demo) and equipment (e.g., there's a blank in the store for a washer tier above "heavy duty", but nothing available in it yet).

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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

https://youtu.be/r-6TeureIlM

A "Let's Try" playthrough, in case anyone wants to see more.

dbrandon

Does anyone here know the guy behind "Let's Game It Out"? He'd be into this, I think.

The jobs keep getting bigger and weirder. I just cleaned the entire platform level of a subway station--central aisle, two platforms, two tunnels, benches, the works. Now I've been hired to clean a giant statue that some archaeologists just found in the desert outside of town.

With a pressure washer.

I'm 97% sure archaeology is not done that way.

In other news, the game has a developing story, which is not immediately obvious during the early missions. Your character lives in a town called Muckingham, which is a suburb of a larger urban area. Because there is a very prominent volcano at the far edge of the skybox, that urban area is called Caldera City, which amuses me every time I see it mentioned in game, since that's the name we made up for the capital of the UF version of the Fire Nation (its name is never mentioned in the actual show).

Caldera City's mayor lives in Muckingham. Or he did before he ran away for obscure reasons that may have had to do with being about to get caught for some sort of fraud, right after hiring the player character to clean his party barge. That job came after you cleaned the town's monster truck, because of course the town has a municipally owned monster truck. It's themed after the mayor's pet cat Ulysses, who has been missing since before the game began and is the subject of much rumor and consternation among various local officials, all of whose offices have been abused by the mayor in the search for his missing pet.

Also, there is a carnival in town in which the various attractions are operated by competitors, all of whom seek to acquire a competitive edge by having those attractions professionally cleaned before the start of the upcoming season. Pressure washing an entire Ferris wheel singlehanded is quite a job, even with a six-story-tall set of scaffolding and a mysterious immunity to falling damage.

This game has a bizarre amount of depth for what it is, and the gameplay remains weirdly satisfying.

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Oh yeah, there's some wacky things going on in the plot in the background. I thought there was an even bigger implication about the mayor's real identity based on his slips in dialogue and maybe that archaeological dig you have to clean.

Katherine LOVES this game. If she has time to play something and isn't working on wiki stuff or coding, this is almost always her relaxation of choice.

I have to admit I am mildly curious about trying it, but it is very satisfying to read a book and relax while your girlfriend plays a white noise generating game and makes happy little observations about the stuff she's doing.

Today, I watched streamer Cohhcarnage play this. And, I am overwhelmingly tempted to get it myself, just to have a time waster as it were.

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Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The
Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-
Covered Balls!"

>Today, I watched streamer Cohhcarnage play this. And, I am
>overwhelmingly tempted to get it myself, just to have a time waster as
>it were.

I encourage this. I just finished the main storyline (yes, there is a storyline, and although simple it's honestly surprisingly well-done) and I regret none of the hours I've put into scouring the town of Muckingham and its environs.

dbrandon

They're crossing over with Warhammer 40K. http://twitter.com/PowerWashSim/status/1661779386306113557

I bet the golden throne is FILTHY.

But more importantly....

Whhooooooooooooo CLEANS UP A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA

POW-ER WASH-ER

https://twitter.com/NinWire/status/1660827895445463044

I can't decide which of these collabs is better!

>I can't decide which of these collabs is better!

Clearly, the answer is:

SPONGEBOB 40K.

Crabs for the Crab God! Skulls for the Skull Shack!

>They're crossing over with Warhammer 40K.
>http://twitter.com/PowerWashSim/status/1661779386306113557

The trailer is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-Yq5YXL9c

It's basically perfect. The Warhammer 40,000 pack will be released on 02/27/24, so be sure to set some time aside to thoroughly clean a Titan then.

Really, Magos? Really?!

I mean, the Imperial Guard are literally BILLIONS of soldiers that, knowing the Commissariat, have a not insignificant percentage on some sort of punishment duty. And sure, the Space Marines are elite soldiers, but they have Servitors by the hundreds, surely they can assign some to cleaning!

Why is it that I am the designated vehicle cleaner-upper? Not that I mind cleaning things, it's a job that needs doing after all, but why am I cleaning Dreadnoughts and Rogal Dorn tanks? Yes, admittedly, there was that Knight Paladin, but still, the Adeptus Mechanicus have vehicles of our own in teeming numbers! Where are the Skorpius', the Archeopters or the Onagers?

Let them clean their own damn equipment, they're the ones that disrespected the Machine Spirit and got them dirty in the first place!

-Enginseer MoonEyes

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Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-
Covered Balls!"

So picked this game up a couple weeks back and have been playing it off and on since then til I finished the career mode earlier tonight. And other than some issues with the cloud auto-save feature the other day that meant I had to redo the Ferris wheel and the subway section twice, overall I recommend this game to anybody looking for something you can play while listening to your favorite podcast or with a good movie on in the background.

My only real gripe (beside the auto-save headache) is that after a certain point you have to decide if finishing career mode is worth...well, finishing career mode. In the early to mid game you're working to save up enough money to buy the next washer and its accessories, but then there's a bit of a gap between finally buying the best washer and getting its last big upgrade. The story is good and the sense of accomplishment feels great, yet I admit I did consider just walking away for a bit after I lost an evening's worth of progress.

And that brings me to my one recommendation to anybody thinking about checking this game out years after it was the New Hotness: The key to avoiding feeling overwhelmed as the levels get bigger is to break them into bite-sized chunks and then work your way through those chunks. The first truly daunting level for me was the playground, which I tackled by making sure all the outlying bits were done before tackling the main structure. Another tip is to do as I said above and put on something to provide background noise, because you'll be able to stave off frustration a bit longer if you've got something to laugh to or hum along to while you're working.

Now I'm left to wonder if I want to tackle the bonus levels, since none of the special levels available right now really look worth the price of admission.

This is definitely one of those games that’s *podcast friendly*. Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Shop Graveyard Simulator, Farming Simulator I assume...games where you can just kind of turn your brain off, and settle in to listening to somebody talk for like, three hours without feeling like you’re JUST sitting and listening to somebody talk for three hours.

To whom it may concern: The game is currently 20% off.

Last night I played PowerWash Simulator while listening to vtubers who were chatting while playing PowerWash Simulator.

-IA.

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Much like Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Ship Graveyard Simulator, Power Wash Simulator is one of those games that's great podcast(or similar) fodder. Just put on something in the background and zen the hell out~