{"id":524306,"date":"2026-04-11T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524306\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:58:09","slug":"powerwash-house-flipper-fans-may-want-to-pay-attention-to-this-intriguing-handyman-sim-on-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524306\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerWash, House Flipper Fans May Want to Pay Attention to This Intriguing Handyman Sim on PS5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PowerWash,<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re into busywork sims such as PowerWash Simulator<\/a> or House Flipper<\/a>, publisher tinyBuild is bringing what looks like a very promising new game to PS5 that’s worthy of your attention.<\/p>\n

It’s called The Lift<\/a>, and it casts you as a handyman tasked with fixing up a giant facility plagued by supernatural oddities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Developed by Fantastic Signals over the last four years, the game combines elements of the aforementioned simulation titles with the storytelling and depth of immersive sims like PREY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s according to the PS Blog<\/a> post, where a little more is revealed about the game and its intriguing setting.<\/p>\n

Your job is to repair the ruined Institute, which has suffered some sort of supernatural disaster. As you can see in the above gameplay trailer, that involves a variety of tasks, including cleaning up mysterious goo, fixing electrical devices, realigning satellites, and lots more.<\/p>\n

You access the various levels of the Institute via the titular lift, which will also serve as your base of operations throughout the adventure.<\/p>\n

\"PowerWash,<\/a>\"PowerWash,<\/a><\/p>\n

The game almost sounds a bit Metroidvania-like; as you explore every part of the facility and fix up its various problems, you’ll meet a cast of characters and unlock new tools that will then allow you to delve further and repair even more stuff.<\/p>\n

It all looks quite tactile and satisfying in a similar way to the likes of PowerWash, but there’s also a deeper narrative element present here that has us curious to discover what happened to the Institute to put it in such disarray.<\/p>\n

We’re definitely interested, then \u2014 unfortunately it’s not coming until 2027, but hopefully it’ll be worth the wait.<\/p>\n

Are you looking forward to The Lift on PS5? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re into busywork sims such as PowerWash Simulator or House Flipper, publisher tinyBuild is bringing what looks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10519,59,112,86,182070,45372,7021,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-524306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-announcements","tag-gb","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-the-lift","tag-tinybuild","tag-trailers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}