Powerwash Simulator was a shock hit when it popped up in 2022, incomes vital plaudits, enviable participant numbers, crossovers starting from Spongebob Squarepants to Warhammer 40,000 and even an educational thumbs-up from Oxford. Regardless of all that success, it hasn’t been in a position to crack the thick-skinned nut that’s digital actuality, and immediately FuturLab has introduced that it is giving up.
“I’m sorry to let you already know that we cannot be persevering with help of Powerwash Simulator VR,” FuturLab CEO Kirstey Rigden mentioned in a message posted to Bluesky. “We completely love and imagine in VR, so this doesn’t suggest we cannot help it sooner or later however we aren’t in a position to proceed with help proper now.
“We have now been confronted with a crossroads: We have now a very wonderful and type VR crew who had been engaged on a platform which prices us greater than it makes, whereas additionally having a listing of job openings that had been seeking to be stuffed on different initiatives. We took the choice to redeploy our VR crew into these different initiatives/roles. While I might like to dwell in a world the place we may help Powerwash Simulator on each platform going, I’ll at all times select job safety for my crew.”
It is undoubtedly disappointing for VR supporters, however not all that terribly shocking. VR stays extraordinarily area of interest—Steam customers with VR headsets proceed to hover round 2%, in accordance with the newest {hardware} and software program survey numbers, which is not common however actually a barometer—and Powerwash Simulator VR might have suffered farther from being a Meta Quest unique, which means no VR on Steam.
Even so, Rigden is incomes some reward on social media for being frank concerning the purpose for the top of Powerwash Simulator VR help—no cash in it—and for reassigning builders to different initiatives moderately than merely chopping the VR crew free.
FuturLab clarified in a followup publish that the bottom recreation and presently launched DLC will stay obtainable for buy and play, there simply will not be any additional help or new content material for it.
