The Joy of Hand Washing

I have never felt so dirty and so clean at the same time.

This looks and feels like someones first game. Though, if steam is to be believed, it’s not. And while I don’t want to be too harsh on a small developer, I can’t say many positive things about this game either. I certainly can’t recommend it. This game is very simple. You can click and you can buy auto-clicker upgrades in the shop. That’s it. There are no skills to use. There is no strategy as to what upgrades to prioritize. There are no random pop-up bonuses. There are no mini-games. Nothing. Clicking power cannot be upgraded, so it quickly becomes useless. So all you’re left to do is wait for the auto-clicker to earn currency to buy more auto-clicker upgrades. It’s not a good idler either, since this game auto-pauses if you alt+tab out of it. So you can’t even do other things while you wait. This game wants all of your attention it seems, despite offering little in return. The game has very little in terms of a narrative. It’s nice that character’s lines are voiced, but they become very repetitive very fast. You get some new lines as you go, but there are not nearly enough of them. The art style is charming enough, I guess. The music is okay, but it also quickly becomes repetitive. The tags like “horror” and “dark” aren’t really earned either in my opinion. The game doesn’t do enough with them anyway. There is no ending, it seems, or any sort of conclusion really. Earning every achievement took me about an hour. I was already pretty bored by this point. Getting every upgrade took another hour. Which turned out to be completely pointless since you don’t get anything for it. Looking at other players reviews and a “casual” tag makes me think, that, maybe, I’m taking this too seriously. Like it’s a joke that I didn’t get. Well, the waste of my time felt very much real, hence the negative review. And while this is not the worst game that I’ve played, I also know a lot of games that are far better while also being completely free. Clicker games included. I only bought this game on a whim because of an ad, that looked interesting enough, in Doom Wolf’s video (who, I assume, is the dev). I’m not going to refund the game, so I guess his marketing strategy worked.

What masterpiece of modern gaming history. Finally I can wash away the pain and sins. P.S.: Hey Doom, how about chalice dungeons with fist of gratia only? XD

bru i pissed myself playing this shi, cuz i wanted to pee and it took so long for anything to happen so i forgot to hold the pee in

I liked this game, finally learned how to clean my finger bones, thank you. I loved the pixel art aesthetic and the [spoiler] minor changes were pretty good, so good actually I kept gaslighting myself that he always had circles under the eyes or never smiled [/spoiler]. I did also love the voice lines though I might have been biased due to imagining them as if I listened to them in one of your videos xd. Now unlike the first game, I didn't like the gameplay loop that much. It requires so much clicking to progress in one session (unless it was meant to be done in multiple ones or I did it wrong, oops, my bad in that case) and my poor hand could barely make it to the hairdryer before I had to use an auto clicker and even then it took a long time to get every upgrade except ([spoiler] the sponge, I don't know if it ends might leave the game running to get it too [/spoiler]). Maybe because I was just clicking instead of moving and doing something like in the first game I wasn't as invested nor did I get really absorbed by the game to be unnerved by its [spoiler] shifting artwork [/spoiler]. Overall though I had a positive experience cleaning my hands and once again I am interested to see more of what you make, thank you for making these games!

This game is by far my pick for Game of the Year. Better than Expedition 33! Better than Silksong! Better than Hello Kitty Island Adventure! I washed away the pain and sins. Now I ask the developer to unchain me from his radiator so I can see my kids grow up.

Very simple clicker although I really like the vibe of it especially with hand drawn graphics

So clean and pure. Thank you.

Nothing really happens once you buy everything.... you have no real incentive to max everything out. I was half expecting the entire game to transform suddenly.... to no avail.... The unsettling atmosphere only really works if you somehow genuinely expect this game to be 'Normal'

Thanks to this game, I now know how to scrub my hands clean. I've cleaned them so thoroughly that they're polished to a beautiful skeletal white. Thanks Doom!