Helping you achieve this are a range of different hose nozzles. Hitting TAB will highlight any dirt still clinging on a surface, helping you to clean up awkward nooks and crannies that you missed on your initial sweep. There are also more interesting design ideas in PowerWash Simulator that I appreciate. It’s simple Skinner-box stuff, but it works. Within half an hour of starting, I lived for that noise, and a little firework of joy would go off in my head whenever I heard it. When it drops to zero, that segment flashes blue, and a little “ch-ching” noise plays. Each object you clean is divided into different segments, with a meter in the top-left corner showing you how much dirt is still on that segment. This isn’t the only way PowerWash Simulator demonstrates mastery over my lizard-brain either.
Developer FuturLab has clearly obsessed over the interaction between pressurized fluids and stubborn dirt, perfecting the effect of water flowing down a fence, creating bespoke audio effects for different configurations of jet-stream hitting different types of surfaces. The tactile satisfaction it provides is easily the equivalent of stomping on an imp’s head in Doom Eternal. PowerWash Simulator is one of the most instantly gratifying games I’ve played. But when the stream of water from my powerwasher’s nozzle sliced through the muck covering the van’s driver door, revealing the gleaming blue paint underneath, well, I felt like Neo seeing the Matrix.
Your first job in the game is to clean your newly purchased work van, which looks like it was rolled down the hillside of the local park where all the dogs do their business. Published by Square Enix, it’s one of the top-selling Early Access games on Steam.Īnd it takes precisely two minutes of playing PowerWash Simulator to see why. Except PowerWash simulator is not some cobbled-together curio to extract a quick buck from a very specific audience. It’s the kind of gimmicky simulation experience that litters Steam Early Access, the ones where normally you’d frown at the title, have a giggle at the screenshots, and then swiftly move on.
READ MORE: ‘Guild Wars 2: End Of Dragons’ preview: Cantha is all about togetherness.In other words, the jobs you actively avoid doing in real life so you can pretend to be a monster hunter or a super-soldier or a grizzled murderdad with untreated psychological trauma. It’s a game about starting your own power-washing business, where you spend the entire game cleaning the grime off cars, garden sheds, and patios with high-powered jets of water. This week, Rick Lane discovers the therapeutic pleasure to be found in PowerWash Simulator. Unfinished Business is NME’s new column about the weird and wonderful world of Early Access Games.
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