PowerWash Simulator review: Strangely satisfying. But a five-minute video would have been enough for me

PowerWash Simulator review: Strangely satisfying.  But a five-minute video would have been enough for me

On a small scale, well imitated cleaning with a high-pressure cleaner, which is extremely manageable both technically and in terms of content.

Even without the PowerWash simulator, I knew about high-pressure cleaning from various time-lapse videos in which footpaths, driveways or entire gardens are cleared of nasty dirt that has settled there for months. In small lanes, the dirt is literally pushed away by a strongly focused jet of water or steam until the asphalt and bricks shine again in the most beautiful O (color) tone. Anyone who occasionally surfs YouTube may be familiar with the liberating effect of this before-and-after cinema.

But does this also work as a game? Or in other words: What is it like when you yourself spend hours drawing the jet over dirty vehicles, terraces, climbing frames and other objects to free them from black goo? Well… there are two very different answers to this. Because if you believe the comments on Steam, many people actually find high-pressure cleaning on PCs and consoles incredibly relaxing.


However that happened, this miniature golf course will soon be sparkling clean again.

You have to give FuturLab (they developed this everyday sim) one thing: While the whole thing doesn’t tear out any trees technically, it’s still handsome enough not to wrinkle your nose. Above all, however, the cleaning works amazingly well – in other words, this feel-good effect when washing away the dirt. Which also has to do with the fact that you know exactly what it could have looked like if you had pulled the wrong nozzle over the appropriate spot too quickly. Then particularly stubborn crusts would have remained and you would have had to change the attachment in order to use an even smaller, but all the more powerful jet. But if everything shines again immediately, that’s something.

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Sometimes it can be quite practical to first wash away the superficial dirt with the gentle wide nozzle. Because you earn money with completed orders, you also buy extensions for high scaffolding, for example, as well as cleaning agents to remove dirt particularly quickly. Later there were also devices that generate even more pressure and thus make the particularly demanding dirt removal possible. It just doesn’t make a noticeable difference. In the end, you always pull the water over the dirt until the entire area is cleaned.


For particularly stubborn dirt, you should use nozzles with a stronger jet or detergent.

And this is where my answer comes into play: I hardly enjoy it any longer than one of the YouTube videos. In purely playful terms, there is nothing more to it here. Anyone who has ever drawn brushes of different widths over an area in any drawing program can in any case imagine the dimensions of the interactive challenge fairly accurately. You erase black cast from relatively rough 3D objects – that’s it.

Whereby I’m missing a bit of credible physics at this point, since you actually don’t push the dirt away, but just let it disappear under the cursor. You don’t have to be careful cleaning steps from top to bottom, for example, to avoid splashing dirt onto steps that have already been cleaned. Because the pressure is not calculated, no grooves are sprayed out or turf straightened, and that robs the whole thing of the fascination of actually cleaning something.


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I don’t want to deny PowerWash that it has fascinated me to a certain extent. If you can almost smell wet stone or wood and even thought you could feel humid air, then the game is doing something right. You can also interrupt orders at any time in order to continue them later at exactly the same point. There are special jobs where you can clean up an entire miniature golf course, the Mars Rover, and you can pressure-spray the entire career with a buddy, as well as up to six in free play. Only that this game of all things lacks any music seems strange, especially in view of the uniform work.

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PowerWash Simulator – Test Conclusion

So if it’s enough for you to paint or paint different objects in a kind of Microsoft Paint, then take a look. On a small scale, PowerWash depicts high-pressure cleaning reasonably convincingly – but that’s exactly why it’s far too thin for me to satisfy more than the initial spark of curiosity. Because as reassuring as it may be to watch the whole thing in time-lapse, guess why there are so few real-time first-person videos of it. In any case, I either want to be challenged in an interesting way or entertained by narrative, which is why I prefer to stick with cool (quasi) simulations like Hardspace: Shipbreaker and wait for YouTube to push something with “Pressure Washing” into the recommendations again.



Reference-www.eurogamer.de