Review: The Last Worker - Well-Packaged Satire That Doesn't Always Deliver

Stand and deliver.

First announced for Switch in March 2021, news of parcel-shipping immersive sim The Last Worker has been fascinating. Over the last two years, there’s been plenty of time for interesting little info trinkets to be packed and despatched from the Wired Productions warehouse. There was the time the game competed at the Venice Film Festival, the time director Jörg Tittel pitched development across cinematic and interactive mediums in Jerry Bruckheimer’s offices, and the relatively more grounded time that an all-star Hollywood voice cast was announced. Finally, we can look beyond the hype and hold the game in our hands.

The Last Worker sees you taking on the role of Kurt, an employee and full-time resident at the fulfilment warehouse of futuristic retailed and Amazon-alike Jüngle. Your job is to fly around on a little hover-cart, using a kind of handheld traction beam gun to take boxes from shelves and ship them through huge suction chutes. The odd thing about the scenario is that all your colleagues are robots. The job has been automated and the workforce downsized to just one: you. You are – and you’ll have seen where this is going – the last worker.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com