Power Wash Simulator Proves Simulators Just Aren’t For Me
Because I’m a big time gaming journalist shill, I received a mailer for Power Wash Sim yesterday. It had a cap that said DING!, a t-shirt that said DING!, and a foam gnome. You know, the summer essentials. Partly because I’m clearly subject to direct marketing, and partly because several staff at TheGamer won’t stop going on about it, I tried my hand at Power Wash Simulator. I think that’s me off simulators for good, thanks.
Simulators have always felt like a strange genre of video game. There are some that make sense - sports sims, life sims, pretend to run a hospital and try not to burn it down as you cut costs on everything sims. But Microsoft Flight Simulator? Just fly a plane for eight hours and that’s it? I don’t get it. Drive a truck across Europe? Build a PC? Cut the grass? These are incredibly mundane tasks. It’s very different to being a hospital director or a professional athlete. Power Wash Simulator definitely falls into the mundane category, but also, I see the power in the satisfaction it offers. Unfortunately, the mundaneness of it all was what won out.
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When I first booted up Power Wash Simulator, my wife looked at me and told me firmly, “They have run out of things to make a game out of”. Having spent her last weekend power washing our real garden, she probably had a right to roll her eyes that I was power washing for fun after she had power washed for function. For all we love viral videos of things being power washed clean, and perhaps even enjoy blasting grime from our own decking or garden paving, it felt as if she had a point.
The game is what it says on the tin. You power wash things. You might unlock some extra nozzles (I’m
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