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New academic study finds PowerWash Simulator is officially good for you


72 percent of players reported an "uplift in mood" whilst playing PowerWash Simulator.

Instead, we wanted to know how real play in natural contexts might predict player mood on short timescales," said lead author, assistant professor Matti Vuorre, Tilburg University and Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute. Developer FuturLab announced the swamp-squirting DLC last month, but at the time, we were only given a broad release in autumn. Now we have a firm release date across Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, as well as details of which fairytale environments we'll soon be spraying down.

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