Bloodwash shows us that there are things that are far, far scarier than not having any clean clothes for the next day. You would think laundry day would be safer.
Your sketchy boyfriend hasn’t done the laundry, although given that the machine in your building is busted, I guess I can see why. A neighbor helpfully points out that there’s a twenty-four-hour laundromat open on the outskirts of town, though. Which is an immediate red flag to me. Why open a place like that as far away from the majority of people as possible? Definitely sounds like the sort of place people get killed constantly. Especially when there’s a killer called the Womb Ripper working through town. And you’re pregnant.
Clean clothes are kind of live or die right now, so off you go to the laundromat. The whole game oozes with menace, though, as you wander your unsettling apartment, hop on an unsettling bus filled with unsettling people, and then head into an unsettling laundromat. Everything feels decayed and twisted, like you’re walking through hell with no matter which direction you take. The world is choked with this sense of imminent doom, like you were destined to die from the moment you woke up.
Bloodwash makes every second feel like it could be your last, but maybe you can pull through if you’re careful. Just don’t accidentally forget your laundry in the machine if you manage to escape. You’d feel pretty silly not ending up with clean clothes after all this.
Bloodwash is available now on Steam.
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