Wired Productions and Wolf & Wood have announced that The Last Worker will be coming out on 30th March. The game will be available across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC, but also has VR support on PSVR 2, SteamVR and Meta Quest 2.
The game is set in a future where capitalism and consumerist tendencies have run rampant, dragging society into a machine, automation and AI-led hellscape. The Last Worker casts you as Kurt (played by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), the last human worker at the vast Jüngle mega-corp distribution centre JC1. Along the way, Kurt will be accompanied by his AI companion Skew (Jason Isaacs), a beaten up little hover droid, the pair of them being drawn behind the curtain of what is really going on in this company.
With Kurt driving around a nifty little hover cart, the game should be ideal for playing in VR, though it’s also entirely playable on TV.
Further reading: The Last Worker Preview
We went hands on with the game last summer. For our The Last Worker preview, I wrote, “You get a real sense for the cartoonish take on the late-stage capitalism the game depicts. It’s darkly humorous how the bizarre excess of the machinery will pass packages around, and it will only get darker as you delve deeper into the game and break out from the intended work area.”
Writer & director Jörg Tittel and developer Wolf & Wood aren’t just working on this game alone, with their collaboration also at the heart of upcoming PSVR 2 exclusive C-Smash VRS. There’s less story in that game, a VR revival of the Dreamcast cult classic Cosmic Smash.
