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Game
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Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down!
Developer WayForward
Team up with Officer Patricia Wagon to save Tangent City from a fiery blaze! As a member of Planet Land’s Fire Brigade, your job is to douse the fire in each building — and to evacuate any Hooligan Sisters who may be trapped inside. From the Steam store page
64 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 18, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
87
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53 positive · 8 negative
95% range 76–93%
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| Steam reviews | 53 | 8 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
80 of 91 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 64 · most liked firstBe aware! This is not part of the "Mighty Switch Force" series of puzzle-platformers! This is a port of the mobile spin-off, a cute little series of puzzles loosely based around the mecanics of the main MSF series. The objective is now to put out the fires that appear on the level grid, using the pipe-blocks to control the direction of your hose's stream. All the levels revolve around this gimmick, however they quickly become more and more complex as more mechanics are introduced. The game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down! is a spinoff of the Mighty Switch Force series that takes inspiration from the classic DOS game Pipe Mania. You direct water through a winding series of tubes to douse fires, tear through mud clots, and save the trapped Hooligan Sisters. Despite being a mobile port released on Steam for only $3, there's a pleasant amount of content available; unlike the iOS version, the bonus level pack is included in the Steam release by default, meaning players have 50…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Personal rating: 7/10 Before anything... THIS IS NOT THE PLATFORMER GAME. It's a small, rather short, puzzle game where you can only control the blocks in the map and shoot with Patricia. Overall thoughts on Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down! This is a charming little puzzle game, I've been always longing to play one of the Mighty Switch Force games and although it is VERY different from the platform-puzzle games that Mighty Switch Force 1 and 2 are, this is far from a disappointment and is a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a port of the mobile game and it's a good port, no problems. Best Firefighter Simulator ever. Just your basic simple quirky fun cute puzzle game where you put out fires and save people. It's a good simple cheap to pick up and waste some time if you are bored. The puzzles get harder and require more thinking which means more fun. Also once again it has good music. But it's a Wayforward game of course it's gonna have good music.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Initial Impression - Not really enjoying this puzzle game. I've done the first couple puzzles and they feel more like fast finger, brute force, puzzle solving than actually sitting down and thinking of a solution. I love the Switch Force games, but I can't reccomend this. After Completion - I expected to find more playing to the end and it still feels the same as when I tried it years ago. You spend time shifting tiles to create patterns that allow you to put out flames and rescue girls…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not for $3. This is about 1 hour of gameplay and it's not that engaging. I love WF, and this game isn't outright bad, but it just has no substance at all. Go buy MSF1/2 or Shantae instead. Much better use of your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5/10 50 short easy puzzles. if you could chill on sexualizing women that would be great + 3$
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not the deepest or most compelling game out there, but its short and sweet nature from being ported from a portable platform makes it simple enough to pick up and play and provide a tiny distraction. It's more creative than most games and has the typical Wayforward charms and scantily clad women. There's no controller support, and the feedback using a mouse isn't the clearest or intuitive compared to using your finger. The lack of Steam Cloud and any care for the PC port is what bothers me…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🟢 Plug and Play Game doesn't have controller support and touchscreen is not working properly for this game. Mouse steam input is only option and it's kinda clunky. Other than that everything works great. Tested on: OnexPlayer Mini Pro 6800U [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42772030-Handheld-Friendly/] Follow Handheld Friendly
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ℍ𝕆𝕊𝔼 𝕀𝕋 𝔻𝕆𝕆𝕆𝕆𝕎ℕ I didn’t expect to enjoy this one as much as I did. The puzzles start off nice and easy, but before long, I was scratching my head and thinking twice about every move. I really like how the game keeps things simple without becoming a walk in the park. The water mechanics are clever, the levels are satisfying to figure out, and the whole thing has a fun, quirky charm. It’s not reinventing the wheel, but it definitely punches above its weight. I had a genuinely good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just don't know what this crap is anymore. Time trial box shuffling puzzle stuff where you put out fires. Game starts, no tutorial, nothing. Can you figure out how to play it? Is probably the first puzzle. There is no menu, no settings, no controls. You just have to guess, I guess. For anyone wondering: it's space. Space let's you shoot water. Fair enough, space is an often used button. Still ... How do you move the blocks? Oh, you drag them. With the mouse. Okay. So, now that that's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like puzzle games, it's OK, although it's much more based upon high-speed precision clicks than the sort of more relaxing puzzle games I'm more fond of playing as a cool-down from my more intense, more complex games. Something to really note, however is that this game is a cellphone port and it really wasn't made to work well with PC. There are no options, not even volume options, and the controls are entirely based on the mouse, except for actually hosing, which is based on space bar,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a Puzzle spin-off, not a plataformer like the main games of the series Hose it Down! is a great and simple puzzle game, with just as much personality as the main games have. While the game may feel short at first, since it took me about 2 hours to complete the base 25 stages under the time limit for each "Star", I was surprised by another 25 EX stages. At that moment I knew I had to tell the world about this game. The challenge is there for those who want it, with the previously…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hose It Down! Mighty Switch Force - Hose it Down is from the Mighty Switch Force series. This time around, its a puzzle game of the Slide Puzzle/Oil Spill variety Once again you control our mighty Firefightress, but she doesnt do much moving - you control plumbing blocks within the buildings, moving and flipping them to reach and extinguish the fires. the Stages are each 5 puzzles long with the 5th being a "rescue Puzzle" where you have to extinguish all fires and rescue a person from the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silly minigame turned entire game kinda thing. Simple puzzle mechanics with additional extra hard stages. I'm not much of a puzzle maniac but I've gotta admit I had a lot of fun in the short span of time it took me to do all the regular puzzles. And also, it was really inexpensive! Warning: Do mind the volume. It does not have any form of audio settings and, for some reason, it's Source levels of loud.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Casual - Pipeline Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Brute force time attack drag and drop tiles around a board to kill fires. Stressful. The time limit is near impossible to beat and the core gameplay is repetitive and niche. No options menu. No Xbox360 pad support. Potential tablet port would explain why the game's objectives are so hard to reach using a mouse if this was designed for touch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose it Down! is a fun little puzzle game. pros: > Cheap > Easy to play > Good when need to kill some time or take a break from your main game. > Sounds and music are decent. > Graphics are 2D but smooth Cons: > Could be considered repetitive Overall a fun little game to kill some time and its short to complete took me about 3 hours (not in one sitting) so it doesnt get boring. if its on sale worth picking up 5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isn't one of the "main" Mighty Switch Force games (obviously, since to my knowledge those are Nintendo-published); it's actually a port of an iOS spinoff game, unfortunately. It still has the same great art and music, but instead of being a platformer with the switch mechanic, this game is a sliding puzzle game where you have to slide blocks with gaps in them to align them in ways that let you spray water from the bottom left corner into the grid to put out fires and rescue people.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A port of a short and simple puzzle game from the 3DS. Worth the price of admission, but not much more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saw the trailer. Listened to the amazing song! Bought the game. 'Nuf said.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The (in)famous IOS Spinoff (because the second game "is unlikely to get a HD redux") My only 2 complaints are: *Becomes trivial and goes by trial-and-error way too much *YOU CAN'T SAY IT'S MIGHTY SWITCH FORCE IF THERE'S NO SWITCH MECHANIC I KNOW IT'S A SPINOFF BUT SERIOUSLY DID SOMEONE THINK OF THIS Here are the pros instead: *Cheap *Takes some of the good OST from both original games *Can burn some time if you need to TBH get this on IOS, like, seriously this doesn't fit PC for ♥♥♥♥. But…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If only patricia existed.....damn XD anyways, i am so happy to play this game on steam, i really love the soundtrack a lot! the protagonist (she's very attractive to me lol) the voice actor for patricia,(which is stephanie komure), the backgrounds, the graphics, the cutscenes, and(strangely to me) the title screen when i first played this game, the controls i had to get used to, cause i'm so used to playing video games with a control instead of using a mouse to move the blocks, (i'm more of a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short little sliding block puzzle game. Took me about 2 hours to beat all the puzzles including the "extra" ones. Anime theme isn't super prevalent except in "mission complete", a drawn scene is shown. Worth $1.50!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cute puzzle game based around improbable fire-fighting methods, but fun nonetheless. My biggest complaint with this port is the lack of an in-game volume control, so you either need to adjust your sound outside of the game before loading into the game or just mute your volume entirely. I repeat, there's NO way to turn the sound down or off inside the game. At all.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down! takes the colorful world of Officer Patricia Wagon and converts it into a focused puzzle experience where careful planning matters far more than reflexes. Developed and published by WayForward, the game places Patricia in Planet Land’s Fire Brigade during a crisis in Tangent City. Buildings are burning throughout the city, and her responsibility is not only to extinguish the flames but also to rescue any Hooligan Sisters trapped inside. It is a straightforward…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down! is a mobile puzzle game and it is okay. It’s free and you can also play it on PC. It’s simple but pretty tough, especially in the final few worlds. I don’t think Wayforward makes their games anymore other than Shantae :(. (Finished on 5/26/26 with a score of 6/10)
unlabelledView post →This has got to be the most unique puzzler, with graphics like Saturday morning cartoons and the grooviest music that will take you to an era when disco was still king. Nearly ten years later, it still hits hard. The pipe puzzle is not really anything to write home about, although a couple levels in the first page stumped me, and I've never beat the time goal (yet). Still, it's typical Wayforward gaming - come for the pictures of cute girls and the catchy music, stay for the story (if any) and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even here! In the most simplified version of their game it still cannot read more than 1 action simultaneously. Jesus, this game has only move blocks and shoot actions and it still struggles to register them both at the same time!!! I'm not even mentioning this atrocious emulation (Well, I just mentioned it. Nvm) which takes longer to boot up than a freaking Starfield and for no reason even in the lowest possible window resolution is soaks all 100% of CPU resources like a hecking malware! I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tried playing on my laptop using the touch screen. Would not work. If I was able to use the touchscreen, I would give this a positive review but at the moment, buy on mobile.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's cheap. It's a pretty basic puzzle game, all things considered. I personally don't get along well with sliding puzzle games but I can think of worse ways to spend your time than playing this. If you like Mighty Switch Force and want to play all of the games, then this might be worth the low price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun little puzzle spinoff from the main game. There's no steam achievements and it's super casual. Play it whenever you've got some time to kill and are in the mood for a quick puzzle game. It's definitely a mobile port though, and while three bucks isn't an unfair price for what you get you might want to wait for a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy and fun, but short.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first I bought this game thinking it would be trash, but it was really fun to play. Figuring out super hard puzzles under a stressful time limit was super fun. Totally reccomend this game to anyone looking for a chill puzzle game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →short puzzle game that any one would like. also *haha -8 joke here*
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My main criticisms are the victory music, something about it is very grating. And that you can't continue to fire while moving blocks, it stops the stream entirely until you're done which doesn't make for very fluid gameplay. I feel like the times seem unreasonable given the mouse controls as well, and the previously mentioned thing contributes to that. However, I really did not feel like trying because it took me literally 7 minutes on some of them which had far less to get the start on the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force Hose it Down is a puzzle game this time around where you get to spray your liquids all over those criminals that have all been released on account of good behavior.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like Pipe Mania, but actually on Steam. Also it's on fire. And it's in space. Not much depth to speak of. A slew of some 50 levels sounds expansive, but given the nature of being a... Err, casual puzzle title, the levels fly by... fast. Good way to waste time, though. Fairly inexpensive to boot. Runs smooth as butter, given the pixel graphics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it just me or is that last puzzle a fryer? The Good News: Signature Wayforward art style; cute girls abound, and a plucky lead. Jake Kaufman's pumpin' music score makes for a memorable soundtrack. Some clever mechanical twists in this smart puzzler. The Bad News: You may be better off purchasing the soundtrack - go ahead, it's on Bandcamp. I got a lot more enjoyment from the music alone, compared to this super short pipeline puzzler. The difficulty is bog standard until the end where it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty simple puzzle game. Really its just a glorified flash game no achievements and no options for audio or anything like that. Still pretty fun though. If you want simple mindless puzzles and something to kill time with then this is your game. If you're looking for some deep gameplay and puzzle solving you'd probably want to look elsewhere.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun little puzzle game, nothing more nothing less.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yo peeps, I got a key for Shantae Risky Revenge and Mighty Switch Force Hose It Down I don’t need, who wants it?
unlabelledView post →Hose before bros!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Level 5-5 can go suck a hose. Otherwise solid little pipemania style puzzler.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun puzzle game. Only complaint is that they never remaster the graphics into HD as was done to the prequel.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short fun puzzle game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After finally completing all of the puzzles, I think my brain needs someone to hose it down.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game takes about an hour to beat, maybe even less. Its fun for what it is. Not much to say. What you see is what you get.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't even have anything interesting to say about it 5/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose it Down! A fun little puzzle game with a funky soundtrack, but make sure you lower the volume of your game before you start playing.
unlabelledView post →This game was originally made for mobile, but is still an enjoyable and relaxing puzzle game. A couple of the puzzles had me for a moment, but it felt very rewarding to solve them. I haven't really seen a reason for the par times other than bragging rights, but I still enjoyed what I played.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having recently played The Mighty Switch Force Collection, I had noted that this game was absent. I had bought and played it some time ago, but never finished. Having returned to it, I can see why. It’s a simple game, simply moving pipe blocks around so that a water stream can reach particular destinations to put out fires; occasionally there will be a Hooligan Sister to rescue. I will say; the game isn’t bad per say (thus my light recommendation), but it feels very half baked (ironic for a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very Good game for 3 dollars on Steam. Wayforward has been able to put good content on the store as usual. While this is a spin-off from the main series of Mighty Switch Force, it still has similar puzzle elements from the main games, such as clearing it in the fastest time and figuring out new optimal ways to beat a level. Each section progressively gets harder and makes problem solving more challenging, but worth it once you figure it out. Multiple comments say that it's recommended that you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose It Down is a short puzzle game where you move blocks to control the water flow of your hose so you can put out fires, and sometimes rescue a Hooligan Sister in distress. You move the blocks by dragging them with your mouse, and you shoot a stream of water with the spacebar. This game has 50 levels in total: 25 normal levels, and 25 remixed "EX" levels. Overall the levels are fun, and the art and music are pretty good (they are taken directly from other games in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a short but fun puzzle game you could play for an hour and a half. I did and I enjoyed it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mighty Switch Force! Hose it Down! is a PC port of a MSF mobile game, easy to learn, and pretty cheap to boot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short and sweet; "Hose it Down" offers a total of 50 pipe-tile puzzles and as a bonus, it throws in five cute pictures of fire-fighting shenanigans as rewards. If you're not interested in beating the game's par times, you may find yourself completing in less than 2 to 3 hours, but given this game's very reasonable price, a dollar for an hour of pretty gameplay seems more than fair! If you enjoy Wayforward's design and art-style, and if you need something to burn some time, definitely get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Meh........It's okay, I recommend it on the SOLE fact that it is a good puzzle game. Beyond that, it could have been better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good puzzles,good music , what else do you want?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a cute game made for children and mentally handicapped people. It is super easy but does what it dowe really well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard to figure out controls at the beginning since there are neither config. menus nor help sections. Quite easy to grasp anyways. Simple mechanics which lead to cunning solutions over time, so the game is fun to play and reasonably addictive. As usual with wayforward, the music is fine and the GFX are cute. So, overall, it's a nice deal for 1.5$. Seemed like a cute little game, turns out as a good suprise.
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