The Last Worker Reviews

Gameplay loop is decently engaging, slowly adding more things to look for, the story is also interesting and a cool commentary on consumerism, capitalism and corporate greed

Works on Reverb G2. The Last Worker is a story focused VR game that mixes work sim, stealth, shooting and some minigames. But none of the gameplay elements works particularly well and some of them are complete dogshit. The game was not too bad at first: visuals look great in VR, opening cutscene is creative and dialogue feels natural and fluid. Core gameplay of controlling the futuristic forklift is a missed opportunity, though: it does not properly use motion controllers, relying on stick movement and button presses instead. And introduction of stealth missions spoils the gameplay even further: they are the most boring and frustrating kind that has no shadows, guards with fixed routes and no awareness states, while any failure leads to restarting a checkpoint. I could not force myself to play through Chapter 4: that level consists entirely of stealth sections and, for some reason, flat-screen Flappy Bird.