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Release date

March 30, 2023

Publisher

Wired Productions

Website

https://www.thelastworker.com/

The Last Worker is an immersive narrative adventure centered around a lone worker’s last stand in an increasingly automated world, The Last Worker is a unique blend of work simulation and stealth strategic gameplay.

The game is set in a lonely, oppressive but strangely beautiful environment, with characters designed by comics legend Mick McMahon.

Kurt works for the world’s largest retailer and is forced to choose between capitalism or activism. Having dedicated his life to work, Kurt’s loyalty is put to the test when a group of activists ask him to dismantle Jüngle from the inside.

Aboard his corporate issued flying JünglePod and armed with his multi-purpose JüngleGun, Kurt dispatches countless products from a fulfilment centre the size of the sunken city of Manhattan.

Kurt (voiced by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) has dedicated his life to Jüngle, with only his co-bot, Skew (Jason Isaacs) to keep him company. But when S.P.E.A.R., a group of activists, asks Kurt to help dismantle Jüngle from the inside, Kurt is forced to discover his employer’s dark underbelly.

The Last Worker delivers an emotional, thought provoking and inspiring story with rich characters performed by an all-star cast starring, Jason Isaacs, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Clare-Hope Ashitey, David Hewlett, Zelda Williams and Tommie Earl Jenkins.

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Meta Quest 2

Meta Quest Pro

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67 ratings

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$79.96 $53.99

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Great

I am still only on the first chapter but you can see the effort and talent put into this. I thought it was maybe a light interactive story but I was wrong and I am so happy I was wrong. This is more of a game and it is fascinating.....like if Amazon and crazy taxi had a baby. Edit....I am now at the end of chapter 4 and I would put this game up there with the red matter games. I cant give enough praise to the devs and the team for putting this out there

54 found this helpful

looks fantastic sounds fantastic

that being said, it doesn’t play fantastic… Some of the challenges are a little bit ridiculous given how Jenkee the control scheme is… I seen on the reviews, talking about the checkpoints and how you have to keep going back and doing the same stuff, and I agree with those people… It’s an absolutely beautiful game visually speaking… The colors are incredible… The animations are clever, and the plot is really dystopian and interesting. I totally get that Jeff Bezos… I’m surprised he hasn’t Sued you lol also, you really get emotionally invested in the characters because it’s just a really clever storytelling and you buy into it without even knowing you’re buying into it! Fantastic job with the writing… Also, the sound is fantastic… All of the environmental audio really transports you into this world that they’re trying to paint. This game is a feast for the eyes and the ears. still, I get to a point in the game, right around the race, where I just stop… I kind of lose interest because I have to keep going back and doing this thing that should be relatively easy if the control scheme were better. as a result, I’ve started and then stopped playing this game like six times now and I always stop in about the same spot just because well I really love it and want to see what happens next. It just seems like too much work you guys really need to look at the progression from the race on. I think a lot of people probably stop there and lose interest. Still, I will keep trying. I will probably stop and restart it five or six more times and eventually I will progress past that point… But I don’t know if you really called that replay ability or just redundant. graphics and colors 11 out of 10 Audio 10 out of 10 Character development 10 out of 10 Plot 10 out of 10 Playability four out of 10 Somebody message if you notice any update, where they fix the Jenkee controls… just in case I’ve given up again… Thanks

37 found this helpful

Barley good game

So I'll say what i like : Voice acting in general was good (the girl was like 10/10 her scream was to the bone) art style is nice comic style and the story had nice moment and the jokes are funny.... That for the good now for what i call bad: the gameplay most of the time boring (box transfer and "Stealth" which really not good) there some jokes out the place (not for the game)and the music ...boring and the story has bad moments as well and it short (3-4 hours) so buy it if it very cheap

26 found this helpful

Technical issues hold it back

Five stars for the creative team, two for the technical team. The Last Worker is well written and entertaining satire with excellent art direction and voice acting, delivered in a clunky technical package. The worst technical aspect is the incomplete and misleading tutorial. For example it tells you to grab the virtual control stick. If you follow that instruction, the tutorial will not progress since the grip button locks you into strafe mode. Early on in the game you’re told to engage the boost mode on cue. Despite clicking down the left thumb stick as instructed, the boost wouldn’t engage. It took many tries to pass this scene and I’m not sure how I got past it. Either the instructions are misleading or it’s a glitch. This next issue won’t affect everyone. An inconsistent frame rate gives me motion sickness. After six years of using VR on a near daily basis, a poor frame rate is the only thing left that can still give me VR sickness. I can play driving and flying games comfortably for hours at a time, provided they run at a smooth frame rate. Unfortunately The Last Worker’s frame rate frequently hitches, especially in turns, so I have to play it in very short sessions. If they can clean up the tutorial, fix or eliminate the virtual control stick, and optimize the performance so it runs smoothly, this could be a five star game.

21 found this helpful

Good Game held back by bugs

The gameplay loop is a "Papers Please" style game. You have a mundane job to perform while on the clock, and you have to make sure everything is following the rules. But you balance this with story segments interweaved throughout your shift and afterwards. The gameplay is fun, the aesthetics are good, the voice acting is great, and the character dialogue is funny. While this game has a lot of spirit, it unfortunately has a lot of bugs. - I have snap turning enabled, but sometimes it changes back to smooth turning - the Jüngle Gun has some weird interactions at times. Either not detecting a hit, or I'll grab a package and it shoves it backwards through a wall where I can't get. Sometimes I have to hold the trigger to hold a package, othertimes I have to tap it instead. - god help you if you try to use the Jüngle Gun while moving. - Interactable objects like levers or puzzle cubes will often clip through your cart, making it near impossible to turn them. But the game doesn't give you a way to move sideways or backwards, resulting in you having to drive in a circle to get a comfortable distance. Usually while you're on the clock. - It seems like every story mission has at least one bug requiring a restart. i.e. A character tells you to the use the boost, but you can't for some reason. A door closes in front of you, trapping you in a hallway while other characters have a conversation on the other side. You need to do a timed puzzle which involves pointing the gun in certain directions but the game won't recognize it for some reason. You need to hide in an obvious open nook that looks just like the others you hide in, except there's an invisible wall so you can't. Etc. - If you fail a story objective during a shift, choosing "Replay Shift" won't reactivate the objective. But "continue story" will! It's frustrating because when everything works as intended, it's a fun game! But the bugs occur more often than not, which can ruin the experience.

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Zedisnotdead

Great

IzzyDeadYet

looks fantastic sounds fantastic

rembobro

Barley good game

Jioxx

Technical issues hold it back

SkullCrab

Good Game held back by bugs

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