First launched successful Early Access successful April 2021.
Strategy role-playing game We Are The Caretakers volition permission Early Access and motorboat for Xbox Series and PC via Steam connected January 6, 2023, developer Heart Shaped Games announced.
As for the previously announced Xbox One version, Heart Shaped Games told Gematsu, “The Xbox One mentation is improbable to beryllium disposable astatine launch. We privation to marque definite it is optimized earlier it releases. We’re focused connected Steam 1.0 and Xbox Series successful the abbreviated term.”
We Are The Caretakers archetypal launched successful Early Access for PC via Steam connected April 22, 2021.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
We Are The Caretakers is an afrofuturist squad management RPG. Assemble a concealed faction of protectors successful squad-building systems inspired by Ogre Battle, Darkest Dungeon, Black Panther, and XCOM. Defend the endangered animals your satellite relies connected successful strategical turn-based combat. Define your attack to a planetary absorption by balancing your reputation, funds, research, animals and alliances.
We Are The Caretakers is an breathtaking caller benignant of strategy game, blending squad building, RTS-with-pause, narrative, and turn-based JRPG combat into 1 thrilling campaign. The crippled introduces players to an archetypal sci-fi beingness with nuanced characters, grim acheronian narrative, heavy mysteries, layered portion absorption challenges, and escalating conflicts that person nary casual oregon implicit solutions. It is developed by a critically-acclaimed and divers squad including IGF nominees, ex-Microsoft, and ex-Blizzard developers.
Key Features
- Afrofuturist Universe – Former Blizzard creator Anthony Jones’ breathtaking afrofuturist benignant and signature quality designs bring a caller sci-fi satellite to life.
- Reputation System – Every action committed successful the satellite affects however others spot the Caretakers. Do they fearfulness you? Or volition they enactment your quest to support the endangered Raun, and determine the destiny of the world?
- Turn-Based Encounters – Balance unit with diplomacy successful an innovative turn-based combat system. Live with the consequences arsenic you woody with the messy world of carnal conservation.
- Squad Building – Assemble up to 9 squads from 100s of characters with divers traits, weaknesses, abilities, and personalities. Train and upgrade your Caretakers crossed 30-plus unsocial occupation classes.
- Grow Your Headquarters – Meet leaders, probe technologies, and enlistee allies successful your sci-fi HQ. Balance their conflicting demands to prevention our world.
- Dark Narrative – The individuals extracurricular your squad substance arsenic overmuch arsenic the rangers you deploy connected each map. Follow a grim communicative from devastating losses done a anticipation of a amended future.
- Technology Tree – From field-level exertion upgrades, to large-scale speculative probe and development, your exertion decisions person a planetary impact.
- You Get a Baby Raun – It volition nuzzle against your furniture agelong aft it grows excessively ample to reasonably bash so. It is adorable.
Watch a caller trailer below.