Powerwashing gets gruesome in Crime Scene Cleaner

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I always find it difficult to pick out which demos are worth my limited time whenever Steam Next Fest rolls around again. The process is made a lot easier when I find something which promises the zen-like quality of PowerWash Simulator.

It may not seem like it at first, but somehow Crime Scene Cleaner manages to deliver on that promise. Despite the lack of cats and the abundance of dead bodies and blood.

You take on the role of a single dad who's a school caretaker (or janitor, seeing as the game takes place in the US) by day, and a mob cleanup crew by night. The mob pays much better than the regular day job, and we need the money to pay for our sick daughter's healthcare. Ah, the good old American healthcare system.

Crime Scene Cleaner's demo gives you one level — a fancy villa where the mob boss went on a rampage because the man who lived there slept with his wife. Yes, there's a lot of cynicism and cliche with the story, but the actual process of cleaning up the bloodbath is… very engaging.

The blood spatters can be cleaned with a variety of tools. There's a mop which is quite standard, it takes longer to clean but you don't need to keep running back and forth between a water source. You also have a small sponge for moments where you need to clean with delicacy, or you risk smashing some plates and making more mess to clean up. The quickest cleaner is by far the small powerwasher — though it doesn't have different nozzles like PowerWash Simulator, only a vertical or a horizontal option — which will blast bloodstains off in a jiffy.

Unfortunately it also runs out of water quickly too, so you'll have to keep making trips back to a tap in order to keep it topped up. The mop and sponge can be rinsed out with water from a