In celebration of successfully resolving our community management situation — eventually through use of the banhammer after it became extremely apparent the arrogant little sod in question wasn't listening to anything we were saying and was too busy whining about "censorship" — I bought myself a copy of PowerWash Simulator on Steam this evening.
Andie and I have been enjoying watching Nyanners play this for the last couple of evenings, but I looked a little further into it today and discovered that it's actually the work of FuturLab, the guys who brought the world the excellent Velocity games — some fine-ass puzzle shoot 'em up/platformers if you've never come across them before.
The folks at FuturLab are lovely people so I was more than happy to fling them fifteen quid for their latest project, which is their first to release through Steam's Early Access programme — an ideal way of a title like this being figured out and refined over time.
I already had a good feel for it from watching Nyanners play, but I can confirm, after spending the last hour and a half glued to it, it is indeed an exceedingly relaxing and satisfying game to play. I suspect it's a game that will particularly appeal to people with a certain type of brain — I feel like it tickles the satisfaction centres of my Aspie brain, for example, while Nyanners says it's good relief from ADHD — but there's definitely something just simply, primally satisfying about it.
You know when you see videos and memes that are "strangely satisfying"? PowerWash Simulator is basically that turned into game form. And I suspect it's going to be a nice thing to have on hand for stress relief from hereon!
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