Window Washer is a Glulx interactive fiction game written with Inform 7 and is © 2025 by Galvan.
In this short, strange, and disturbing game, you play as a man who wakes up in the middle of the night. Your wife, Melinda, and your daughter, Jess, still sleep, but little details about your high-rise apartment seem off or wrong, somehow. And why is there a window washer on a platform at this time of night?
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
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Bedroom
> warnings.
> x me. i. x pants. x shirt.
> x Melinda. x bed. x alarm. open alarm.
> stand. x bed. x pillow.
> e.
Hallway
> x frame. s.
Bathroom
> x mirror. x left sink. (for Jess)
> x right sink. (for you and Melinda)
> x toilet.
You have some body parts implemented; I'm not sure why.
> x face. x eyes. x hands. x penis.
> pee in toilet. flush toilet.
> turn on right sink.
> wash hands. wash face. turn off right sink.
> n. e.
Jess's Bedroom
> x Jess. x bed. x pillow. x Teddy.
> squeeze Teddy.
> x desk. x drawings.
> w. n.
Living Room
> x couch. x TV. x table. x remote. x door.
> lock door. (already locked)
> x windows. (face east)
You're 43 floors up, and it's night, but there's a sleeping window washer on a lift around floor 20 on another building?
> x city. x telescope.
I note that even though it's night and you have a telescope, there's no stars or moon to look at.
> look through telescope at city.
> look through telescope at washer.
He's bearded and was face up. Suddenly, he rolls off the platform and plummets out of view.
> look through telescope at building.
> take remote. sit on couch.
> turn on TV. (nothing happens)
> open remote. (the AA batteries are missing)
> s. e.
Jess's Bedroom
> open Ruxpin. take batteries. x them.
> w. n.
Living Room
> put batteries in remote. close remote.
> turn on TV. (A loud sound from EVERYWHERE.)
> look. (The TV is gone.)
> i. (The remote is gone too.)
> x drywall. take it.
Something fleshy behind is it, pulsating. The whole room seems like it's breathing. All the rooms will be pulsating now.
> x flesh.
> unlock door. open door. (It doesn't budge.)
> s. w.
Bedroom
> wake Melinda. (unnecessary)
> touch Melinda. move Melinda. (She doesn't budge.)
> x bed. (Is she even breathing?)
> take pillows.
> e.
Hallway
> open frame. take photo. hit frame. (It's gone.)
> e.
Jess's Bedroom
> wake Jess. (unnecessary)
> take pillow. take Teddy. take drawings.
> x Jess. x band shirt. x shorts.
This next part is optional, and I'm only including it so you can see a bit more content.
> take shorts.
You are abruptly back in the hallway.
Hallway
You do not get the shorts. There is no longer a doorway east from here. It soon becomes clear that Jess has been erased as if she never existed.
> x photo. (Jess is no longer included.)
> i. x drawings. x Teddy. (no mention of Jess.)
> s.
Bathroom
> x left sink. (No one uses this one.)
Looking at the mirror after seeing the window washer fall ends the game.
> x mirror. (You see the window washer, not you. He laughs.)
*** The End ***
And I don't know what any of that means. Is it all just one big nightmare? Are you in some sort of malfunctioning virtual reality? Are you in a hellish afterlife, and this is a deliberate torment? I just don't know.
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