PowerWash Simulator Reviews

A delightfully monotonous chore sim that tweaks the original powerwashing formula just enough.

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A delightful blend of gaming and mindfulness, offering players a peaceful escape from the everyday hustle and bustle

PowerWash Simulator is a perfect fit for VR, and incredibly relaxing. It has more than a few flaws, like difficult to read text and some minor movement issues, once you get in the zone you’ll be there until you take the headset off.

It didn’t take long for PowerWatch Simulator to take its place in the pantheon of blue collar job simulators. You know the kind, one that turns a repetitive, stressful job into a repetitive, relaxing game. There’s great satisfaction taken in a job well done, and its always fun to operate heavy machinery that you may not get access to in the real world. Now on Switch, PowerWash Simulator will let you take your clean dreams on the go, anywhere.

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PowerWash Simulator is an addicting game that seems like it wouldn't be fun, but it really is! And you can fully enjoy it on the Steam Deck!

PowerWash Simulator is a rare example of a game that more than lives up to its expectations. If the calming loop of the gameplay gets you then you’ll easily find hours of your life disappearing along with the dirt and grime. Add in some interesting challenge modes and a story that caught me by surprise and you have a game that more than deserves your time.

After a promising start, PowerWash Simulator begins to expand in a way you cannot tackle feasibly, but only in scale. It’s one mechanic polished well enough to get by for a short while.

PowerWash Simulator is a novel and soothing chore-core game that only occasionally breaks up its own relaxing flow.

When the issues of a game are rolled and stomped by its greatness, then it’s something to invest on if you have some spare.

I'm conflicted when it comes to PowerWash Simulator. On one hand, it's an absolute bore and a chore with one-dimensional gameplay - can I even call it gameplay? - but on the other, it's still strangely fun and moreish, and seeing the grime trickle away and the percentage done counter ticking slowly upwards was enough to keep me wasting water for hours on end. It's an oddity, for sure, but one that I can't seem to peel myself away from, and the more I play it, the more I wonder if the world wouldn't be a cleaner place if we could all get the job done with a gamepad. C'mon, billionaires. Make it happen.

Powerwash Simulator is a very zen game. I lost hours of my life just spraying away doing something that felt menial but scratched an itch I didn’t even know I had. This game isn’t for everyone, though. If you don’t find cleaning relaxing, or have issues with finer details, don’t play this. But if you give it a shot, you’ll find a game that is the perfect wind-down game after a long, stressful day.

Graphically the game looks pretty darned nice and it ran great for me on my Series X. Both with a purchase and with Game Pass you get the game on the Windows Store on PC as well with full cross-progression, saves, and buy. I was unable to test it before launch as the page wasn’t ready but if it’s anything like the Steam version (never a certainty) it will run and control well. The water and dirt removal effects look fantastic and it really sells that you are cleaning an area, everything gets wet depending on the surface and it dries quickly so that you know what you have or haven’t cleaned at a glance most of the time. If you can’t tell just what an area you’re working on is missing you can always press right on the d-pad to see exactly where any dirt is with a second of orange glow that fills up the screen early in a level.

A powerwash 'em up which makes the fight against grime a soothing experience and a rare simulator that's focused on fun, not faff.