The eternal question a sequel needs to answer is how can they improve on the original. PowerWash Simulator 2 is in a unique situation. The question it has to answer is how can it improve on complete and utter perfection.
Based on what FuturLab has shared about their upcoming sequel, PowerWash Simulator 2 is on the path to greater greatness. By keeping what made the first game so iconic and adding a handful of new features that enhance the satisfying vibes already in place, PowerWash fans the world over are getting a sequel they can, impossible though it may seem, enjoy even more.
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FuturLab knows its fan base. When labeling what genre shoes PowerWash Simulator fills, its ascribed to it the term “soothing/satisfying”. If you’ve ever played the game, cleaning grime one click DING at a time, you know that is an apt descriptor. So the focus for PowerWash Simulator 2 is how to up the ante when it comes to this feeling of supreme satisfaction.
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The addition of split-screen co-op is a no-brainer. It’s a mystery why it wasn’t included in the first place. Where you used to need to cajole an online friend into washing digital dirt with you, you’ll now be able to rope in a roommate as you sit on the couch and clean up new areas beyond the in-game town of Muckingham.
This joyous sequel looks to lean into cozy game tropes as well. Whereas in the first game you hopped straight from job to job, location to location, PowerWash Simulator 2 is going to include a Central Homebase, a place where powerwashers can hang out before heading out for a job. You’ll be able to decorate the Homebase and arrange furniture to your liking, adding a wholly new element of satisfaction separate from the standard ‘I am cleaning swaths of mud from walls in perfectly straight lines and all is right’ feeling of the main game.
But the feature I’m most excited for is the soap system. The first game allows you to apply cleaning fluid to your powerwasher in order to more quickly clean specific surfaces. The metal cleaning fluid enables rapid metal-cleaning, the plastic cleaning fluid enables rapid plastic-cleaning, and so forth. That’s all well and good, but aside from speed, cleaners don’t provide any extra satisfaction you’d get from your usual washing.
The new soap system will let you apply a thick, foamy layer of soap to a tough-to-clean surface. Once this bright-white lather is slopped onto an area, you can proceed to wash it off with your powerwasher. Plus, when asked if this system would provide “equally positive auditory feedback” to the usual washing sounds, I got told the following:
Yes, the application of the foamy soap will sound suitably frothy, and as it all needs to then be sprayed off using the usual washing nozzles the satisfying established auditory feedback and iconic ‘Ding!’ still accompany the process!
Click motherflubbing DING. It already has me foaming at the mouth.
Another Mystery In Muckingham To Uncover
All these new features are to be nestled within a new story as well. Our entrepreneurial powerwasher goes beyond the time-traveling alien conspiracy story of the first game to unravel a fresh mystery.
According to Dan Chequer, Design Director of PowerWash Simulator 2, we are visiting other towns in Caldera County.
We don’t want to say too much about the story at this time, but we can reveal that it’s set a couple of years after the events of the first, and more oddness is taking place in Muckingham! It answers a few questions left unanswered last time, while raising many others. The player will also be going further afield, visiting and cleaning many other neighbouring towns in Caldera County. And yes, cats make a return, as does a certain infamous mayor…
Though FuturLab is keeping a tight lid on where exactly the story is headed, I trust it’ll handle it as expertly as it did in the first game. There, the campaign took a good-humored and comfortable backseat to the cleaning. We’re hoping to see a similar incorporation of the narrative as we did with those entertaining messages from powerwashing clients popping up throughout a job.
Only brief snippets of new locations were shared, but given the engaging areas we’ve received from PowerWash Simulator’s lauded free DLCs, I have the utmost confidence in where FuturLab takes us next.
I’m a huge PowerWash Simulator fan. I have over 500 hours in the game, I’ve played every expansion pack offered, and, as my coworkers, family, and friends can attest to, I’ve proclaimed my fandom loudly and proudly every opportunity I get. Even so, the notion of a sequel that might not live up to expectations makes me nervous.
But the team at FuturLab knows what it’s doing and who it’s doing it for. Any doubts I’ve had have been thoroughly washed away. Click DING!
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