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 a tutorial thumbs-up from Oxford. Despite all that success, it hasn’t been capable of crack the thick-skinned nut that’s digital actuality, and as we speak FuturLab has introduced that it is giving up.
“I’m sorry to let you recognize that we can’t be persevering with assist of Powerwash Simulator VR,” FuturLab CEO Kirstey Rigden stated in a message posted to Bluesky. “We completely love and consider in VR, so this doesn’t suggest we can’t assist it sooner or later however we aren’t capable of proceed with assist proper now.
“We have been confronted with a crossroads: We have a very wonderful and sort VR workforce who have been engaged on a platform which prices us greater than it makes, whereas additionally having an inventory of job openings that have been trying to be stuffed on different initiatives. We took the choice to redeploy our VR workforce into these different initiatives/roles. Whilst I might like to dwell in a world the place we may assist Powerwash Simulator on each platform going, I’ll all the time select job safety for my workforce.”
It’s undoubtedly disappointing for VR supporters, however not all that terribly stunning. VR stays extraordinarily area of interest—Steam customers with VR headsets proceed to hover round 2%, in response to the newest {hardware} and software program survey numbers, which is not common however definitely a barometer—and Powerwash Simulator VR could have suffered farther from being a Meta Quest unique, that means no VR on Steam.
Even so, Rigden is incomes some reward on social media for being frank in regards to the purpose for the tip of Powerwash Simulator VR assist—no cash in it—and for reassigning builders to different initiatives moderately than merely chopping the VR workforce free.
FuturLab clarified in a followup publish that the bottom recreation and at present launched DLC will stay out there for buy and play, there simply will not be any additional assist or new content material for it.
