The Last Caretaker's "Wall-E meets Wind Waker," is a an interesting start, at least

The Last Caretaker is a survival crafting game that prioritizes enough interesting parts of the genre to be worth keeping an eye on in early access.

The premise is essentially Wall-E meets Wind Waker. You wake up as the lone robot caretaker on a post-apocalyptic planet. All of your fellow bots are dead, and whatever your job as Caretaker was before, your job now is to restore humanity all by yourself. There isn’t any Hello Dolly, but it’s about as close as you can get to Wall-E without having a bunch of weirdly fatphobic Pixar people running around.

But while there is a ton of random junk and garbage for you to collect in the world to turn into better things — which is essentially the beat-by-beat point of the game — you’re not gonna spend your time wandering the wasteland cleaning up the world in Last Caretaker. Well, not on foot, at least. 

See, the entire world of Last Caretaker is underwater outside of a few key installations — one of which being the one you wake up in. After making some quick repairs by chomping up human chairs, desks, or the bodies of your fellow bots, you and your big, ugly, slow-ass boat will adventure off into the world.

This is where you get a taste of freedom by witnessing the game’s beauty and world. The ocean is gorgeous, and seeing robotic sea monsters briefly surface before diving back down makes me really want to dive into what happened before the game began.

Unfortunately, the game runs like ass.