The Last Worker – Review

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Twenty five years have passed since Kurt joined Jüngle, a large mega-corportation “delivering dreams” to its millions of customers across the globe. While Jüngle has continued to evolve, robots have replaced workers and Kurt is the last human working on board the JFC-1 fulfillment centre, even his pregnant partner was cast aside to live in squalor down on earth.

As the last human explorer for Jüngle, you’ll have to collect the desired order and drop it off at the dispatch point, thankfully you don’t have to box the item yourself, so there’s no putting items in boxes 4 times too large like Amazon love to do, but if you notice a product that’s damaged or the wrong size or weight you’ll need to label it accordingly and make a quick trip to recycling to ensure customers aren’t receiving incorrect or out-of-range products. Jüngle feels like a mix between a real world Apple and Amazon, multi-millionaire owners who claim to care about customers, shady practices and no doubt overpriced goods, it’s pretty easy for The Last Worker to poke fun at the way the world is today.

Throughout the 5 hours campaign, you’ll step-into the shoes of Kurt, an overweight middle-aged man who finishes work and then heads down to the scrap centre to unwind for the evening as the latest jPhones are discarded like waste paper because they’re a few hours out of date.

It’s obviously pretty easy to dislike Jüngle and all they stand for, but as the sole human working on board, you’re working beside your personal co-bot called Skew and the early sections of the game introduce you to the mechanics of your glorified flying mobility scooter that you’ll use to transport packages and manoeuvre around the facility. Controls are fairly simple with the left