Developer FuturLab has announced PowerWash Simulator 2, a direct sequel to its satisfying smash hit clean-'em-up.

Due for release on PS5 sometime in 2025, the announcement comes via the above teaser trailer, showing the series' gnome mascots unveiling the title and brief glimpse of gameplay.

Unlike the original game, PowerWash Simulator 2 will be self-published by FuturLab, enabled by the first game's success; it's reached a whopping 17 million players.

"PowerWash Simulator 2 is all about adding in even more avenues for players to achieve that same sense of satisfaction, with new tools, features and quality of life improvements," says design director Dan Chequer.

The sequel includes an all-new campaign that takes you across the original setting of Muckingham, plus new locations such as Sponge Valley, Power Falls, and Lubri City.

It also adds a home base to the experience, a hub you will be able to customise with furniture and other items you collect throughout the game.

While the cleaning itself looks broadly the same based on what's been shown so far, the sequel includes a brand new soap system, with soap "that clings to stubborn stains and annihilates dirt". Hopefully it'll prove to be more useful.

PowerWash Simulator 2 will feature online co-op as before, plus it introduces split-screen, meaning two local players can clean together.

We asked the studio whether the sequel would incorporate cross-platform co-op, but the response is non-committal right now. "We don’t have anything to share on crossplay at the moment," the team says. Here's hoping.

There's more information to come in April, says FuturLab, with the team lining up a late 2025 launch.

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