I Wanna Be The Caretaker

Creator: Gizmo

Average Rating
8.8 / 10
Average Difficulty
47.7 / 100
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Tags:

Adventure (8) Needle (16) Gimmick (13) Special (4) Horror (3) Art (3) Atmosphere (4) Everywhere_at_the_end_of_time (2) Dementia (7)

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Creator's Comments:

Gizmo [Creator]
My first complete fangame, made in ~2 months.

I like tier lists, so if you want to make a chart for the rooms in the game here you go (spoilers for all the rooms obviously): https://tiermaker.com/create/i-wanna-be-the-caretaker-621666

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Mar 21, 2021

47 Reviews:

Jopagu
A beautiful, haunting needle game. Caretaker features some super fun platforming that takes advantage of unique gimmicks and more well known fare equally, creating something that is fun to play whether it's feeling new or familiar. The atmosphere of the game is also really well done, bringing an evocative, horror-adjacent feeling to the game. It feels like a spiritual successor to Dopamine's games, which is a massive complement.

I haven't heard the music this game is inspired by, but I know of the themes, and I must say this game does an excellent job conveying them. The feeling of mounting horror mixed with melancholy is drawn out through incredible use of visuals and audio, creating a truly emotional experience.

Overall, this game is an easy recommendation for fans of gimmick needle, but especially those who like thematic artistic games.

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick Art
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Rating: 9.5 95       Difficulty: 45 45
Oct 21, 2023
TaiyakiEternity
clear time 3:57:01 death 1667

This is a perfect fan game for Aiwana!
It was very challenging with a good difficulty level for intermediate players like me, not too difficult but with a lot of placement and gimmicks that require a lot of technique.
I also liked the story and design, very interesting work!

This game is very interesting and I have played it many times!
One of the stacks I have discovered is that if you shoot the save point on the floor that melts the ice from the air, ice forms at the respawn point and you can't move!
(This only happens if you save for the first time from the previous floor)

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 55 55
Oct 20, 2023
Chance
gimmick needle with nice atmosphere

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick
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Rating: 8.5 85       Difficulty: 55 55
Dec 4, 2022
SolarOddity
A very fun and relatively long gimmicky needle game. I like the atmosphere and the music that is based off of the Caretaker's album "Everywhere at the End of Time". Definitely recommend.

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Rating: 10.0 100       Difficulty: 47 47
Sep 20, 2022
roaming97
A horrible yet artistically beautiful experience translated into a fangame.

People have analyzed this game from top to bottom already, and I shall agree, if you can bear the slightly dark theme, this game is a must-play.

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Tagged as: Needle Gimmick Special Dementia
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Rating: 8.7 87       Difficulty: 51 51
Dec 29, 2021