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PowerWash Sim’s Warhammer 40K DLC is out now, and good enough to make you like Warhammer 40KThe Imperium is indeed glorious, and reasonably priced
The Imperium is indeed glorious, and reasonably priced
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix
You play as a tech-priest starting on, essentially, their first day on the job cleaning the huge war machines of the Imperium. If you’re reading this website it’s likely that you have some familiarity with Warhammer 40K, as I do, and so you know of the Space Marines, but here you’re hosing down some of the vehicles and larger war mechs that, when rendered in plastic miniature form, cost a lot of money. A quick Google tells me that for one Knight-Paladin in the header image above, you could buy about 12 copies of the DLC. These chonky lads provide some good, fiddly PowerWash Sim levels for washthusiasts like myself.
But, as ever, nothing has been spared in adapting an existing franchise. All this cleaning takes place in a huge, cathedral-like room, with windows looking out onto Mars. You get messages from a passive-aggressive co-worker who is upset that you’ve been given more prestigious cleaning jobs, even though they outrank you and have been there longer. But the triumph is really just that they’ve made these massive,massivekilling machines, to scale, in 3D, and you can walk around them looking at all the bits of them, while trying to figure out what they’refor, as the game does some light show-don’t-tell context for you.
Many of the messages you get are heavily redacted, which adds to the mystery. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Square Enix
You get messages from a general, while you’re cleaning his favourite tank, who reveals through threatening you that the Imperial army has Penal Legions made from criminals. When you’re hosing down the giant shield on the Knight Paladin, you reveal multiple wax Purity Seals, and you’re like “weird, wonder what that’s all about then?”. One of the earliest jobs you do is cleaning aDreadnought, which is a huge bio-mechanical mech unit that’s like 6 meters tall. You might notice that, hang on, you’re cleaning off a bit called the sarcophagus. Wait, why does this sarcophagus have aviewing window??
