Maths – The Game!
Are you too cool for maths, but still yearn to calculate those numbers? Look no further – Cash Cleaner Simulator is here! Of course, there is more to the game than that but my poor brain was stuck at that first hurdle. Cash Cleaner Simulator is, as the title says, a simulator developed by Mind Control Games and first released on PC in 2025. What is a cash cleaner you ask? A cash cleaner is the poor sap responsible for distributing money across the underground. Sounds simple, until marked cash is delivered to the the wrong client. Then you’re no longer a cash cleaner, you’re just dead. How fun! Now available on PS5, we’re going to see if cash cleaning is still a profitable career or if it should have stayed on Steam.
In Cash Cleaner Simulator, we assume the role of a low-level criminal. A Cash Cleaner under the not-so-gentle guidance of Betty Oops. The money is dirty, in more ways than one. Washing machines and dryers are some of your key tools here. Deliver money to the specifications of the order, or else. It’s not like you have any other options. Cash Cleaner Simulator is thematically strong, from the sound effects to the visuals. The style is clean and satisfying, making great use of its colour palette and lighting to create a cohesive game environment. I particularly love the sound played when a quest/achievement is unlocked; it’s equally smooth and gritty, fitting the image of petty crime.
I personally found the Cash Cleaner Simulator controls overwhelming. There are a lot actions that can be performed and the controls were not the most intuitive. Precision also lacked with controller play. I could imagine this game performing a lot better on PC with keyboard and mouse than console. Cash Cleaner Simulator is surprisingly time-consuming. Counting money is a manual endeavour for the most-part, up until you can afford money counters and other upgrades. Even then, it’s still somewhat manual as you cannot count out a specific number of money. The small money counter counts a maximum of 100 notes, which is the most efficient way to organise your funds in early game. Is it tedious or satisfying? That depends on you. For me, this is just tedious. More time is spent organising than completing quests.
There are lots of cool collectibles and achievements available in Cash Cleaner Simulator, adding to the immersion (and time-consumption) as you search incoming cash for any goodies. As a whole, Cash Cleaner Simulator performed well with no drops in quality or frame rate. There were, however, some weird little glitches. In particular, whenever I threw something at the table (usually by accident) it would wiggle in place until I quit and reloaded the game. A distracting inconvenience but didn’t affect the game functions.
Overall, this game was just not for me but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. I certainly would have enjoyed it more on PC than PS5 due to the controls. Watching other gameplay, it also appears that the table glitch does not occur on PC, which should be taken into consideration. I did unleash my partner on this game and he did not return for hours, lost in the money laundering game and labelling his shelves for organisation. This is definitely one of those games you need to play to know if you will genuinely enjoy it. I personally would not re-visit Cash Cleaner Simulator, but those of you who like immersive, time-consuming simulation should check out this game.
The game code for this review was provided by Forklift Interactive. This review has been cross-posted to OpenCritic.
