The Last Worker Demo Proves We Need More Scouse Characters In Gaming

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Last weekend I was sat in a sunny beer garden in Sunderland discussing the evolution of regional dialects with a couple of mackem friends. That’s a fancy way of writing that we were already a few pints deep at midday, and our conversations had devolved to “do you say ‘wool’?” and “what’s the scouse for ‘clem’?”

Fast forward to the middle of this week and the sun’s gone in, I’m considerably more sober, and I’ve come face to face with a scouse robot in the demo of The Last Worker. The robot in question is Skew, and it got me thinking about the few times I’ve heard scousers or scouse accents in video games. Scratch that, I can’t think of a single time. Surely there’s one?

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A quick Google told me that Nia from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a scouser. Having not played the series, I YouTubed a video of her. She’s Welsh. The person in dialogue with her in this particular clip was from the North West, but he sounded more like Bolton than Liverpool. Still, closer than Wales. I’m not going to count the titular singers in The Beatles Rock Band either, because that’s a cop out.

I imagine a game like Fable might have some scousers necking bevvies in dingy tavern corners or in an obscure field, but I can’t remember encountering any. It’s been years since I played, mind. It’s almost surprising that Elden Ring didn’t have any scouse representation, too, as its characters have a range of accurate accents from across Great Britain and Ireland. I’ve also been made aware of some Scouse dung beetles in a game called Conker’s Bad Fur Day (I don’t know either), and some worms in Worms. If you know any scouse video game characters, please let me know on Twitter,