Here’s a great fun little cosy game by indie studio Rubel Games. It just launched during the week on Steam and lets players take control of a little sushi dude on a cleaning rampage.

In classic cosy game fashion, you go about cleaning and basking in the glory of your minor achievements. No real stressors, no enemies to defeat, just an ode to pixel art relaxation.

Be Gone, Foul Bacteria, in Moldwasher

Yeah, so cosy games are a big deal in the indie game world. Moldwasher reminds us a bit of the unpacking sim Unpacking (2021), meets the highly successful PowerWash Simulator series of games (2022 onward).

All of which owe a lot of their inspiration to Nintendo classic Super Mario Sunshine (2022) on the GameCube.

In that Mario outing, you’re armed with a powerwash contraption and must go around cleaning up a sunny island resort. Moldwasher follows a similar route, with players controlling that cute and determined sushi dude on a mission to destroy all the bacteria in a kitchen.

The little fella is a healthy food on a mission, but this is one dirty kitchen you have to contend with. Across 30 levels, you do your thing! Here’s a bit of the game in action.

The core aspect of the game is aiming your pressure-powered cleaner and spraying all the dirty kitchen implements until they’re clean. That’s it! Similar to PowerWash Simulator, then, where the game takes its main inspiration.

Where it differs from that is with the pixel art, playful setting, plus the levels do mix up a bit beyond kitchen areas.

There’s a great little chillout soundtrack to go with the gameplay. It’s completed by a “various” artists, so we’re not entirely sure who has done what within the whole score.

Overall, then, you get about one to two hours of gameplay from Moldwasher. That’s not long, but then the game is only £5. It does have replayability value, too, simply from the chilled out vibes of it all.

It’s good fun heading in, using the spray to clean stuff up, and you get to control a piece of sushi! What’s not to like here?