This game stands on a mighty pedestal above everything else with a half-ironic "simulator" title released in the past two decades.

PowerWash Simulator is not a sim, and it knows that. Every object you clean is just a texture layered on another texture, and different nozzles/guns remove that texture more efficiently than others. You're waving a Photoshop delete tool around for twenty hours.

The beauty of PWS comes from the writing. This isn't one of the dozens of shovelware Polish 'sim' games pumped out every quarter. The writing isn't edgy for the sake of being edgy to give streamers something to react to during the first two hours. Story and charming character work doesn't magically stop happening after the two hour Steam refund window is up. If anything, the breadcrumbs of story in PWS snowball into a big, goofy, overarching story about wacky occurrences in this small metro area that all - coincidentally - require the services of a professional power washer.

If you've read this far, please take it from me: power through the tree house level. Keep in mind that hitting the C button to detatch your cursor and allow you to move the washer around the screen is a CRUCIAL tool. Ignore the stats on the washers, they're all direct upgrades.