Now is the perfect chance with our new demo!

The demo includes 3 PowerWash Simulator levels, 3 washers to play with and importantly, those soothing ✨ dings ✨ we all love

You can check out the demo, right now!

• Wash down your new van
  
• Blast away the dirt on the detached house
  
• Spray away the grime and graffiti at the Skate Park

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2633700/PowerWash_Simulator_Demo/

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Step into Christmas with our new Winter Seasonal, The Ice Rink!

Packaged up with this Wintery Wonderland, Washers on the nice list will also get:

- A new story told through text messages
- A Winter themed suit, gloves and washer skin

- Festive feeling deep inside

Yule be able to unwrap this holiday gift right now for free ☃️

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983900/PowerWash_Simulator__Ice_Rink__Winter_2024/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/

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Hello Washers!

It's that time of year again, The Steam Awards! It has been a great year for PowerWash Simulator and we'd love for you to nominate us for Labor of Love.

The FuturLab team put their heart and soul into giving you all the best PowerWash Simulator experience you could have, and since full release in July 2022 we've had the pleasure of adding:

• Tomb Raider Special Pack
  
• Midgar Special Pack
  
• The Muckingham Files Part 1
  
• SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack
  
• The Muckingham Files Part 2
  
• Back to the Future Special Pack
  
• Warhammer 40,000 Special Pack
  
• Alice's Adventures Special Pack
  
• Our Washer-Versary Celebration which included The Muckingham Files 3, Summer Seasonal & The Muckingham Files 4
  
• Shrek Special Pack
  
• And our latest release Halloween Seasonal

With the career levels, these combined are a total of 91 levels playable in PowerWash Simulator so far with over 14,000 dings!

We've also made changes to our dirt highlighting to help improve accessibility

We still have more to come in 2024 and 2025.

A huge thank you to everyone who votes for us, and thank you for continuing to join us in our cleaning journey 💙

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/

Keep up with everything PowerWash Simulator by following our channels:

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Hello Washers 💦

Hotfix 1.9.2 is now live!

Patch notes

• Fixed no water coming from washer resulting in player needing to force quit
  
• Fixed loading into levels causing PowerWash Sim to crash

We appreciate you sticking with us while we fixed this issue, and you should now be able to get back to washing away that grime!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/

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Something filthy this way comes 💦

Calling all brave Washers! Prepare yourselves for a chilling new seasonal job for PowerWash Simulator.

This Halloween themed seasonal job we're plunging you into a haunted house covered in grime and slime. Complete with spooky tombstones, ghoulish pumpkin patches and plenty of dirt to bust with your new Halloween fitting washer, suit and gloves

This new Halloween Seasonal is available for everyone to trick-or-treat themselves to for free right now

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2562180/PowerWash_Simulator__Halloween_Seasonal_2024/

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Great news, Washers! 💦

From October 10th until October 14th you’ll be able to wash away your worries with a Steam Free Weekend.

Been looking to blast away the grime solo, or flow through Muckingham with a friend? Now is the perfect chance!

During this free weekend you’ll be able to perfect your PowerWashing prowess with:

- 38 career jobs
- 14 bonus jobs
- 2 seasonals
- Tomb Raider Special Pack
- Midgar Special Pack

If you decide the cleaning life in Muckingham is for you, you’ll also be able to continue where you left off after purchasing PowerWash Simulator, which is currently 30% the base game and 25% off a bunch of our special packs!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/

For even more PowerWashing goodness, our Shrek Special Pack is out now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983890/PowerWash_Simulator__Shrek_Special_Pack/


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Playtime is ogre!

It's time to suit up that armour and work your fairytale magic on five fairy tale maps inspired by DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek.

Sprinkle a little (a lot) of fairy dust to clean up these five enchanted locations:

Duloc
Hansel’s Honeymoon Hideaway
Shrek’s Swamp
Fairy Godmother’s Potion Factory
Dragon’s Lair
This Special Pack also includes a new character model, washer skin and Shrek themed story told through text messages

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983890/PowerWash_Simulator__Shrek_Special_Pack/?curator_clanid=37637598

With this update, there will be the following updates and fixes:

• Fixed saved data to retain equipment details after players quit the game.
  
• Fixed issue of levels not starting when pressing "Start Job" button.
  
• Fixed infinite loading screen on consoles.
  
• Fixed an issue with players encountering a crash while switching equipment.
  
• Handling of clients co-op time-lapse data updated to prevent continual saving for each play session.
  
• Updated UI messaging surrounding Level player counts for Seasonal Jobs.
  
• Fixed issue of a hard lock for clients joining a DLC session for the first time.
  
• Save stability updates involving level switching.
  
• Switch specific: Fix unexpected error when closing the game. “the software was closed because an error occurred”.
  
• HUD UI functionality updated surrounding Usernames during Co-Op Time challenges.
  
• Animation tweaks in Aquarium level.
  
• Fixed Join a players co-op game button spamming from causing issues.
  
• Fixed timelapse data retaining previous data from non-career jobs after starting a new job.
  
• Fixed a white frame playing before timelapse plays for the first time.
  
• Updated terminology across parts of game to create more consistency.
  
• Multiplayer stability updates when attempting to join a DLC session for the first time.

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Hello Washers! 💦

SpecialEffect[www.specialeffect.org.uk] are a gaming charity that look to transform the lives of physically disabled people right across the world through the innovative use of technology. At the heart of their work is the mission to maximise fun and quality of life by helping people control video games to the best of their abilities.

To support SpecialEffect’s big charity fundraiser, One Special Day, FuturLab will be streaming over on Twitch for a day filled with dev talks, giveaways, gaming, and sharing the importance of the work SpecialEffect do.

You can follow our Twitch page here[www.twitch.tv] to watch our stream live from 2pm BST/9am EDT, Friday 4th October. We'll have game codes and merch for giveaways, as well as a few other big prizes! The more we raise, the more we'll be putting into giveaways, starting with game codes throughout the stream & PowerWash Sim plushies coming on socials!

If you would like to donate, our fundraising link can be found here[tilt.fyi], or scan the QR code below. We will be giving away game codes, PowerWash merch and more as we hit targets throughout the day, so every little helps support the incredible work that SpecialEffect do.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/

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Hello Washers! 💦

You may remember a little while ago we had the opportunity to take part in the PowerWash Simulator Research Edition.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1290000/view/3409807423269852954?l=english

We would like to start off by thanking everyone that took part and helped us with this 💙

The results of the Oxford Research study have come back and this study found that while playing PowerWash Simulator, 72% of players had an uplift in their mood

The PowerWash Simulator Research Edition was created in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, to study the effects of playing video games on the mental health of players. Many people in our community have shared with us anecdotes about how relaxing and calming they find PowerWash Simulator, and this study was an exciting opportunity to gain some further insights into how our players feel while playing one of our games.

In this first-of-its-kind study, players volunteered to participate in research by donating their PowerWash Simulator play data and regularly reporting their mood in the game. The study concluded in March 2023, after an overwhelmingly positive participation rate, with over 8,695 players from 39 countries worldwide.

The final paper is now available[dl.acm.org] and the researchers from Oxford have found that a predicted 72% of players experience an uplift in mood while playing PowerWash Simulator, based on statistical modelling of player data. Across 162,325 in-game mood reports from our players, the average player reported a more positive mood during play than at the start of each session.

Players consistently reported a higher mood after the first fifteen minutes of the play session compared to the start of each session, this change is comparable with changes seen in other leisure activities such as reading, shopping, or listening to music.

The research team from the Oxford Internet Institute carried out the study to understand more about the short-term effects of playing video games.

Lead author Assistant Professor Matti Vuorre, Tilburg University and Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute said: “At present, short-term changes in video game players’ moods are poorly understood. Gameplay research frequently relies on artificial stimuli, with games created or modified by academic researchers, typically played in a lab environment rather than a natural context. Instead, we wanted to know how real play in natural contexts might predict player mood on short timescales.”

Unlike other studies in this field, the Oxford study is the first of its kind to examine changes in mood during play sessions in a minute-by-minute resolution. The research edition was nearly identical to the main game, with the addition of in-game pop-ups asking players to report their mood, delivered by a newly created character called ‘The Researchers’ making them part of the game lore, ensuring minimal disruption to the player experience.

James Butlin, one of our Lead Programmers here at FuturLab, led on this project and said: “Working with the team at Oxford Internet Institute was incredibly insightful! They were very supportive throughout and actively engaged with our challenge of designing a user experience that could deliver the study questions with minimal impact on the gameplay.”

We’re really proud to have been a part of this study and excited to see such positive results come from it. It has given us an insight into how our games affect the wellbeing of players and we hope to continue making games which provide our community with a satisfying, soothing experience. Thank you to everyone in our incredible community of players who took part in the research and volunteered their time to play the Research edition of PowerWash Simulator.

Until next time, have a great day Washers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1290000/PowerWash_Simulator/

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