PowerWash Simulator garnered viral success when it launched on Steam Early Entry in 2021, prompting developer FuturLab to not solely add a mountain of DLC to the sport, but in addition port the flatscreen hit to a standalone VR title. Now, the studio says it’s shelving PowerWash Simulator VR (2023) solely 14 months since its launch on Quest.
The staff launched the information in a submit on X, seen beneath in full:
“I’m so sorry to let you already know that we received’t be persevering with help of PowerWash Simulator VR. We completely love and consider in VR, so this doesn’t imply that we received’t help it sooner or later however we aren’t capable of proceed with help proper now.
We’ve got been confronted with a cross roads: now we have a really glorious and type VR staff who had been engaged on a platform which prices us greater than it makes, whereas additionally having an inventory of job openings that had been seeking to be crammed on different initiatives. We took the choice to redeploy our VR staff into these different initiatives/roles. While I might like to stay in a world the place we might help PowerWash Simulator on each platform going, I’ll all the time select job safety for my staff. Each time. Whereas I do know that you simply should be so disillusioned, I additionally know that in the event you had been in my place you’d have made the identical determination.
– Kirsty Rigden, CEO, FuturLab
The studio additional notes that, whereas it’s ending future updates and DLC content material, the VR-native base recreation and existent DLC packs will nonetheless be purchasable and playable on Quest through the Horizon Retailer, and that saves may even be secure, nevertheless simply don’t anticipate updates or DLC of any type.
It’s troublesome to prognosticate why the VR recreation didn’t meet expectations, and even what the studio’s expectations of the sport had been within the first place. What is definite although is the sport’s gross sales had been considerably decrease that the PC model, each of which had been priced at $25.
On the time of this writing PowerWash Simulator VR has garnered a [4.3/5] person score from over 1,100 customers. On Steam, the sport boasts over 43,000 lifetime person opinions, giving it an ‘Overwhelmingly Optimistic’ rating.
As the sport’s identify suggests, PowerWash Simulator duties you with utilizing your trusty energy washer and blasting away each speck of grime and dirt you’ll find, capitalizing on the fad that took YouTube by storm beginning in 2018 and serving up a Zen-like informal gameplay expertise. And the VR model is just about what you’d anticipate, giving customers the power to stress wash by hand and swap out nozzles on the fly.
