A humble piece of sushi cleans mildew off leftovers within the fridge. That’s the premise of Moldwasher, a small pixel artwork curio with serene ambient tunes that’s coming to Steam later this yr. It lately landed on the the r/powerwashingporn subreddit the place it turned a mini-sensation.
It’s being made by solo indie dev Rubel Video games and sports activities a novel twist on conventional energy washing video games: right here, the stuff your cleansing away isn’t static. Not like the grime you blast off a muddy truck in PowerWash Sim, the mildew has a lifetime of its personal and can slowly develop again if you’re not spraying it down. Waste an excessive amount of time cleaning an outdated bell pepper and that deserted jar of stuffed olives you acquire for these traditional martinis you solely made as soon as will quickly change into ensconced within the dusty fungus.
At the moment slated to launch close to the tip of 2025, Moldwasher guarantees a variety of unlockables, varied treasures to scrub, and plenty of totally different mildew varieties to fight, together with mimic, crystalline, and glowing variants. I hope it goes full Dungeons & Dragons and provides some slime boss fights, although which may go towards the meditative power on the sport’s core, which is able to embrace non-AI lo-fi chiptunes.
This isn’t simply an idle submit on a subreddit displaying off a cool mockup. As an alternative, Moldwasher follows two earlier sanitation-inspired video games. The primary was technique sim Listeria Wars and the second was the tactical roguelike Staying Contemporary, which was about stopping outdated meals within the fridge from turning into zombies. Each have solely a pair dozen Steam evaluations to date however are positively rated.
PowerWash Simulator is getting its personal follow-up as nicely. PowerWash Sim 2 is arriving someday within the fall with split-screen co-op and different new options.
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