Dishwasher is #1 on Major Nelson’s list for the second week in a row! Awesome thanks to everyone who gave it a shot. It’s been a long, crazy road, fraught with peril and chainsaws, but I think it worked!
Anyway, Dishwasher has been in the hands of merciless reviewers for almost a fortnight.
I’ve noticed a trend: everyone thinks that The Dishwasher is either an awesome game or a button masher.
This leads me to conclude that if you don’t play The Dishwasher like a button masher, you’ll think it’s an awesome game. If you do play The Dishwasher like a button masher, well, eh… here’s what happens:
- You’ll get bored
- You’ll die
- You’ll get bored of dying
- You’ll write a review about how the game is boring and you die… and, seeing as it involves hand-drawn quirky art, must be compared to Alien Hominid
The Dishwasher is full of tricky, clever strategies that you must use if you want to make it on the higher difficulties. Play the game like a button masher and you won’t really see what all the fuss is about. Seems like the world of games journalism is divided into the “gamer” crowd and the “cooking mama” crowd.
So, here’s official word from the developer: Dishwasher is not a button masher!
Thank you. 
I got a bunch of emails from indie gaming sites telling me they reviewed Dishwasher and loved it. Here they are, after the jump:
