Following 'Back to the Future,' Here's 10 More Movies I'd Love to Hose Down in PowerWash Simulator

With no exaggeration, PowerWash Simulator is one of my favorite games released in years. I cannot stop playing it, and I will not stop playing it. I simply refuse. If you’ve never played it: you power wash stuff. It’s fantastic.

In addition to being the most calming first-person shooter I’ve ever played, the recent Back to the Future DLC proved that the game can tackle damn near any pop culture franchise it pleases, having previously including expansions dedicated to SpongeBob SquarePants, Tomb Raider, and Final Fantasy 7.

As cool as all of those previous crossovers were, however, something really excited me about the Back to the Future stuff. Washing down the clock tower, poking around the Twin Pines mall parking lot — this is just good business, and merely the tip of the iceberg, the more I think about it.

PowerWash Simulator has discovered a way to participate in the Ready Player One-ness of everything in a way that doesn’t feel uninspired like so many other properties. With that in mind, I can’t help but think about what films I’d like the fine folks at FuturLab to take me to next.

Here’s ten movies that I think would be really fun to power wash stuff from:

Pulp Fiction

On top of a handful of iconic locations, this was one of the only movies I could think of where you see a guy hose a couple other guys down, outside of prison intake scenarios. It’s in!

Levels: Jack Rabbit Slims, Vincent’s Malibu, Vincent and Jules’ bloody car in Jimmy’s Garage, Vincent and Jules in Jimmy’s back yard, back room of pawn shop

Original Star Wars Trilogy

The dirty ones, and I don’t mean because of the incest. I mean the ones with the lived-in, grimy worlds that audiences fell in love with. Let me wash those fuckers.

Levels: Millennium Falcon (inside and out), Skywalker moisture farm, Mos Eisley cantina, Jabba the Hutt, C-3P0 (he makes troubling noises indicating he really likes it)

Jurassic Park

I figure there’s a strong chance they get to this one sometime soon. Not the funniest entry on here, but I just want to be proven right by history in the near future. (Could have also said Ghostbusters here)

Levels: Tour jeeps, T-Rex pen, Velociraptor pen, Dennis Nedry’s work space, Dennis Nedry

Saw

Love the series, but must everything be so filthy!? This could honestly be a whole other full game, like when they did Rock Band with all Green Day songs.

Levels: Room from Saw, house from Saw 2, and so on. Just all of it, man.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Not only is this one of the most soiled movies you’ll ever see, but they just did a new TCM video game. This one makes total sense. I’ll get that place shining.

Levels: The house, the van, Tobe Hoopers’ camera lenses — just everything in sight

The Shining

Okay, I’m leaning heavily on horror movies here, but I just said “shining” and I realized this would be so good. A huge hotel. Tons of blood. Book it.

Levels: Overlook lobby, elevator bay post-blood, the disgusting guest in room 237, the bed the bear sucked that guy off on

Taxi Driver

“Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood.” - Travis Bickle.

This is an easy one.

Levels: The cab when you return it to the garage, Bickle’s apartment, aftermath of Bickle’s rampage, the streets of New York (metaphorically), Martin Scorsese’s mouth

Mud

I never saw this movie, but I mean, come on, right?

Levels: Mud’s house, Mud’s truck, Mud

(Note: These last two entries below contain spoilers for movies that came out in 1994 and 2002, if you care.)

The Shawshank Redemption

This is just smart, because everyone loves this movie. Plus, Shawshank itself is filthy!

Levels: Transport bus, Andy’s cell, rooftop tar job, ‘Brooks Was Here’ apartment, long tunnel filled with shit

Signs

PowerWash Simulator is one of the best games I’ve ever played to chill out at the end of the day. I’ve logged over 150 hours on it, and am still eager to play whatever else comes out. By no means do I want to see them change course entirely, but I think it would be okay if there were just a couple levels where you could blow away some aliens whose biggest weakness is water. Like some fucked up version of DOOM or something. How fun would that be?

Levels: Scene of Mel Gibson’s wife’s car accident, Mel Gibson’s farm house, neighbor’s house with alien trapped in pantry, that fucked up birthday party