Developer Heart Shaped Games announced the strategy RPG, We Are The Caretakers, will launch for the Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam on January 6.The [.]
Care play. 6 May 2021
There s been a recent rise in Afrofuturist stories. Authors such as Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemisin and Rivers Solomon have become wildly popular, and Marvel s Black Panther celebrated an African perspective on science fiction on the big screen. Games are set to follow - Furi by The Game Bakers and Beautiful Desolation by the Brotherhood are two examples of games interested in the culture and visuals of a continent that too often gets overlooked. Similarly, We Are The Caretakers, which entered Steam Early Access on April 21 (and which will also be released for Xbox Series X|S), actually isn t set in Africa, but a whole new world called Shadra, an analogy for real places and events, that focuses on telling a story about poaching and conservation efforts, a hitherto unique topic for a game.
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ANN ARBOR, MI – April 22, 2021 –
We Are the Caretakers, the sci-fi turn-based tactical RPG set in an afrofuturist world from developer
Heart Shaped Games, fights to protect virtual and real-world wildlife starting today, Earth Day, on
We Are the Caretakers centers around the Raun, a rhino-like species targeted by poachers both earthbound and extraterrestrial. The Caretakers, led by the Conductor, task themselves with protecting these creatures, essential to the ecosystem of the land of Shadra, but hunted for their animal byproducts.