PowerWash Simulator 2, like its beloved predecessor, is a zen-like exercise in scrubbing the dirtiest things you’ve ever seen clean. It’s a rigorous test of your patience that’s somehow both calming and infuriating all at once. But I didn’t expect the game to give me a bit of an existential crisis about global warming, which admittedly might have been entirely self-inflicted. But that’s also exactly what makes PowerWash Simulator such a fascinating game, the way its lackadaisical simulation can lead to genuine reflection — scrubbing your mind clean along with the windows and tiles.

If I told you they were going to make a sequel to PowerWash Simulator, you might ask yourself, “What more can they do?” The answer is a lot, as it turns out. For all intents and purposes, PowerWash Simulator 2 is a bigger and better version of the inspired cleaning game, providing bigger challenges than ever before and a more robust array of options on how to solve them.

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