PowerWash Simulator Review (Braal)
Absolutely godawful implementation of co-op.
DO NOT GET THIS FOR CO-OP.
To explain in brief and simplistic terms: You clean to get money, you spend money on upgrades and cosmetics.
This game has co-op, where both players can progress.
Sounds neat, right?
Nope!
The developers decided that the best approach to co-op in this game would initially be the co-op player getting NO MONEY WHATSOEVER, and then changed it quite a bit later to give the co-op partner a whopping 25% of the pay, which considering that was a conscious decision, giving the co-op partner any form of reward whatsoever must have been a decision they made very, very begrudgingly.
This game outright punishes your co-op partner by making them do four times the work just to have access to the same amount of tools that you did for doing a quarter of the amount of work they'll have to do to get the same amount of money.
Horrific implementation of co-op so utterly insulting to my partner's time and enjoyment that I have been turned off from ever purchasing copies for us in the future. Absolutely not recommended, not even remotely if you want any form of fun with a partner without them having to do basically the whole game in single player first to have any funds to work with, otherwise they'll spend your whole career using a fraction of the gear upgrades as you through no fault of their own.
TL;DR Co-op partner gets paid 25% of what they should and thus cripples their ability to buy important upgrades and fun cosmetics while the host gets to enjoy all these things at a normal pace, a very deliberate decision by the developer. The oft-suggested "solution" to this is "just go through the campaign yourself to get funds first!". Turned me off ever giving this game another chance. Do not support a game that claims to be all about fun with friends that actively punishes the friends who aren't the host.