I haven’t really playedPowerWash Simulatorbefore, despite the fact that everyone else at TheGamer is seemingly obsessed with it. I’d join for social nights where they washed their troubles away, blasting phallic shapes into the grime and discussing the best hoses, but I never joined in myself. Watching them casually clean each level made it all look so easy.
My husband is another PowerWash Simulator fan who couldn’t pry himself away from it at launch, with the sound of the water echoing from the lounge into the early morning hours for over a week. When I visitedGamescomlast week, I checked out the new Back to the Future PowerWash Simulator DLC. I went into it thinking, ‘This is my moment. This is the time to see what all the fuss is about’.
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The new pack will cost $7.99/€7.99/£6.49 and is set to launch in late September. It’ll feature five levels familiar to Back to the Future fans, including the Hill Valley Clock tower, the Holomax Theatre, the DeLorean, Doc Brown’s van, and the time train.
I got to clean the DeLorean for my hands on with the DLC, and I must admit I initially scoffed at the idea. A single car? No sweat. I thought I’d be in and out of that booth so quickly. I was wrong. So very wrong.
A normal car has enough nooks and crannies to annoy you when cleaning every last inch of it. You’ll be on your belly trying to blast all those hard to reach places under the car, and even the windscreen wipers seemed elusive, but I had forgotten just how jam-packed the back of the time machine was with cables, tubes, and flux capacitors.
Even when I thought everythingmustbe clean, checking the menu proved otherwise, with multiple areas of the car still far from 100 percent. I had to keep clambering on top of the car, trying every nozzle to blast every little bit of electrical technical nonsense from every angle.
Most people find PowerWash Simulator relaxing, but I didn’t. Under the pressure (no pun intended) of completing the level within a set time frame for my appointment and under the watchful eye of a Square Enix employee who was doing her best to help me out, I was certainly not in a chilled mood.
Finally, when everything was clean, the DeLorean powered up and sped away through time and space, leaving firey tracks behind. Fire you can put out with your powerwasher, by the way. After a short time, it zips back into view as it returns. Though I didn’t exactly feel triumphant at the end, I was happy enough to have completed it.
I now need to redeem myself from my poor performance, and at the next TheGamer PowerWash Simulator social evening, which will no doubt be Back to the Future themed, I will don my coveralls and get cleaning with the others.
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