Dishwashing Simulator

A short, unique survival-farming-base-building-tycoon-horror game where you must survive through washing dishes. Explore mysterious depths, manage resources, and unravel a cryptic narrative. In DWS, a chore becomes a journey to freedom.

Dishwashing Simulator is a simulation, immersive sim and survival horror game developed by Frinky and Frosty and published by Frinky.
Released on April 03rd 2024 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 420 reviews of which 374 were positive and 46 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Dishwashing Simulator into these genres:

Simulation Immersive Sim Survival Horror Dungeon Crawler Building Sandbox Exploration Management Base-Building Physics First-Person Psychological Horror 3D Procedural Generation Realistic Loot Atmospheric Horror Dark Singleplayer

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11
Processor: Intel Core™ i5-4570 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space
Additional Notes: Although the game is playable on lower-end systems, its physics-based nature means that an increase in complexity may lead to reduced performance towards the end of the game.

Reviews

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April 2024

As bizarre as it sounds, but it's not all about the dishes. It's certainly not about the mugs. There's a mystery to solve about your apparent enslaved situation and some tight time limits if you want to explore and wash the dishes. It reminds me of Arcade Paradise, where the video-arcade building to salve the numbness of washing underwear is replaced by a Backrooms-style set of mazes which contain many dishes to wash but also the answers to your questions. By far the best and funniest bit about this game is that it has crafting, base-building, farming and fishing which are all wonderfully addictive and completely irrelevant to solving the mystery, unless you want them to be relevant. The game itself will take a few hours, but you could spend days in here, if you so choose. Far off on the leftfield but really fun and somehow immersive and a very nice original piece of gaming. The one thing missing is, this is a game crying out for achievements!

April 2024

"Missed Opportunity Simulator" The game is fun and the story is pretty enticing, however there just isnt much to the gameplay loop. Adding night time raids, tweaking the enemy interactions and increasing the enemy pool would make for a way better gameplay loop, therefore enticing the player to improve the base and gather more scrap to advance in the game. This game is good for a few hrs, but that's pretty much it.

April 2024

This game absolutely slaps and is a titan of the "Simulator" game genre. The simulator games have been idle number go up games for a while now. This game does indeed have that to some extent. You play as some mook stuck in an eldritch post apocalyptic dystopia inside a plain concrete room resembling a windowless prison cell. There are three opening to the room. A hole in the roof where you recieve items, a hole in the floor where you deposit clean dishes, and an elevator. Your only contact with the outside comes from a faceless person on the other side of a phone and the eldrith monstrosities that invade your mind while you sleep. The elevator is the interesting part. Using it, you're taken to a place called "The Depths", a procedurally generated horror dungeon of tight, winding hallways. In the depths, you can find food, water, useful items and extra dishes to wash to earn more money for the day. It's an unarmed horror game, which is frustrating, but there are no obnoxious sanity mechanics. The dungeons are "haunted" by various anomalies with rules, a whistling man who crushes your mind if you look at his face, or a disembodied skull that stalks the halls, very SCP Containment Breach type stuff, and you're not given a map so you have to remember the way back to the elevator to make it back to your room for lights out so you can sleep. I very rarely suggest indie horror games because they're usually just trash and filled with jumpscares, but this one hasn't jump scared me at all yet. Despite this, it's managed to maintain a constant oppressive air which tugs down at the player while at the same time creating an unease that you don't have much time to rest, especially when they stop dropping food and water through the chute and they don't send enough dishes through for you to buy your own. This all contributes to an overall feeling of considerable gains each time you manage to make an upgrade to your room, which you can freebuild with items bought from dishwashing rare dishes you've plumbed from the depths. For the price of 9 dollars on the current sale (I think 12 dollars RRP) you can do a lot worse, but you will need to be able to stomach large sections of monotonous "Simulation game" gameplay, making iterative improvements, especially before you get automatic dishwashers and driers, conveyors and all the neat stuff that remove the manual work aspect of the early game. Still, when broken up by the actually compelling horror sections that don't treat the player like they're stupid, it's a lot of fun. The Spartan, concrete soviet block walls really push you to improve your own situation. It's the developer's first game and he made an entire community post on steam about how excited he was for selling 1000 units, which is kind of endearing, and I would love to see what he can do with a budget.

April 2024

Dang. The name is a total bait and switch that almost caused me to miss this gem. It is not a "simulator" game like the normal shovel ware you would see on steam but rather an immersive sim more in line with games like Voices of the Void. I absolutely recommend getting this and going in blind.

April 2024

Reminds me of Voices of the Void. If you like simulator-horror games like that youll like this probably :Horse:

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9.75€

8.3

374

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Developer

Frinky, Frosty

Publisher

Frinky

Release 03 Apr 2024

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