Building & Simulation · 2025 · FuturLab · local · online
PowerWash Simulator 2
Blast away dirt until none is left — now for two on a split screen as well.
What it is about
You clean things with a pressure washer: houses, vehicles, playgrounds. A job is done when there is not a spot left.
The sequel brings the split screen the first game lacked — so two people in front of one television now works too.
Our verdict for couples
Of all the games here this is the most forgiving one. There is no timer, no enemy and no way to break anything; if you want to stop you put the hose down, and the wall stays half clean until somebody carries on. For an evening when one of you is worn out this is hard to beat, and the split screen is why the sequel is here and the first game is not. Ironically the hard part is stopping: a German review describes very precisely how "just that one window" turns into half an evening. What the sequel gained is contested: there are fewer maps than in the first game, plus decorating and gadget additions you cannot skip, and a few unlocks that ask for repetition. None of that changes the core business.
Pros
- You can stop at any second without losing anything
- The split screen is new to the series — one copy covers you at the television
- No timer, no enemy, no way to fail
- Over forty hours of material, and every surface is a small conclusion of its own
Cons
- Fewer maps than the first game, which has had years of additions
- The new decorating and gadget sections cannot be skipped
- Some unlocks require doing jobs a second time
- If you know the first game, a few actions feel more awkward here
Suitable from
Casual
- Conflict potential
- Serene
- Cosiness
- Very cosy
- When you can stop
- Any time
- How long it lasts
- Over 40 hours
What other co-op fans say
Ninety-two percent approval, and the word that comes up most often is relaxation — one review explicitly calls the game a help against low spirits, because you finish something piece by piece. The split screen gets singled out for praise in the German-language reviews. What the community describes as the problem is remarkable: not being able to stop, but wanting to. The recurring substantive objection comes from those who know the first game: fewer maps, and additions you cannot skip.
- “PowerWash Simulator 2 keeps the gameplay nice, relaxing, and cosy, while the new interactive mechanics make the experience even better.”
- “Chill, relaxing game. Really good to help deal with depression because you clear things piece by piece, so its a bit like therapy.”
- “PWS2 so desperately wants to add new things to the game it doesn’t need and what it adds is largely unskippable.”
Summarised by machine from 60 Steam reviews, not written by our editors. The quotes appear verbatim in those reviews.
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