Car Wash Simulator’s trailer takes a dark turn

There’s something satisfying about a trip to the car wash: You arrive with your ride covered in road dust and dirt, and leave with that new-car shine. But as we all learned in Breaking Bad, a car wash can also serve a darker purpose, and Car Wash Simulator covers both sides of this particular business. Car Wash Simulator is about starting and running a business as the owner of a small neighborhood car wash. You start with an empty lot, and build it up from there by constructing wash bays, buying and upgrading equipment, and of course, washing cars. It’s all in first person, a bit like this year’s House Flipper, and you’ll use soap guns, sponges, and vacuums to clean and detail the cars that arrive at your car wash. And as you grow, you’ll have to compete for customers with your local rival businesses. The trailer gives you a sense of all that, and it starts out looking like one of those amusing curiosities that regularly pop up on Steam. There’s something soothing about performing these unheroic tasks, and games like House Flipper can be surprisingly engrossing.