Sci-fi turn-based tactical RPG We Are The Caretakers launches in Early Access for PC on April 22
Assemble a team of protectors and defended the endangered animals.
Science-fiction turn-based tactical RPG We Are The Caretakers will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on April 22 for $19.99, developer Heart Shaped Games announced. It will support English language text, with French, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, and more translations in development.
Heart Shaped Games also announced that 10 percent of revenue from the game’s sales will go to the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Rhino Recovery Fund.
“Our goal with We Are The Caretakers is to raise awareness about conservation in a way that would engage people with the issue,” said Heart Shaped Games founder Scott Brodie in a press release. “This is a science fiction story, but the issues the Conductor and The Caretakers face are present in the real world right now, and we hope it causes you to think about how we’re taking care of the world we live in.”
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
We Are The Caretakers is an afrofuturist squad management RPG. Assemble an arcane team of protectors in squad-building systems inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Ogre Battle, and XCOM. Defend the endangered animals your world relies on in strategic turn-based combat. Define your approach to a global resistance by balancing your reputation, funds, research, animals and alliances. We Are The Caretakers is a challenging strategy RPG fusion that asks you to protect a planet by fighting for the people, animals and ecosystems that inhabit it.
Key Features
- Afrofuturist Universe – Former Activision–Blizzard artist Anthony Jones brings breathtaking afrofuturist style and human empathy to a complex sci-fi world.
- Reputation System – Every action affects how others see the Caretakers. Do they fear you? Or will they support your quest to protect the endangered Raun, and decide the fate of the world?
- Turn-Based Encounters – Balance force with diplomacy in an innovative turn-based combat system. Live with the consequences as you deal with the messy reality of animal conservation.
- Squad Building – Assemble up to nine squads of characters with diverse traits, weaknesses, abilities, and personalities. Train and upgrade your Caretakers across over 20 unique job classes.
- Grow Your Headquarters – Meet leaders, research technologies, and recruit allies in your science-fiction headquarters. Balance their conflicting demands to save our world.
- Nuanced Narrative – In our morally-complex world, the individuals outside your squad matter as much as the rangers you deploy on each map.
- Generated Wildlife – The challenging and procedurally generated survival mode brings never-ending ways to play.
- You Get a Baby Raun – It will nuzzle against your bed long after it grows too large to reasonably do so. It is adorable.
Watch a new trailer below.