Carrie the Caregiver is a series of Time Management Games. Her job says it all. She tends and cares for children (babies in her first game) and must manage everything as fast as she can. Of course, since this is a Time Management Game, it's pretty much the same thing as with others—the more chains you complete, the more points you get, etc.
Now, about Carrie: A recent nursing school graduate, Carrie embarks on an international journey with Caregivers International fulfilling her deep desire to offer care and love to those in need while seeking out her own dreams of happiness and well-being. With her supervisor, Nurse Grettle, always at her side, Carrie learns the tricks of the trade to better manage those under her care as well as tend to herself.
The game's first installment is entitled Episode 1: Infancy, where she takes care of babies. A spinoff is available online called Episode 1.5: Australia. Since then, two (or three, if you count the last game which is only playable online) more sequels have followed: Episode 2: Preschool; Episode 3: Summer Camp; and Episode 4: Carrie's Country Jam.
Provides examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Carrie the Caregiver.
- Babies Ever After: Adoption variant. Carrie takes in a baby girl that was abandoned at her nursery, and the baby girl has since become Carrie's Happily Adopted daughter.
- Babies Make Everything Better: The first game is centered around Carrie working in a nursery.
- Character Blog: Of the fourth function listed in the trope, every time you start and/or finish a level, you'll get updates from Carrie's blog. This includes some links to direct you to her site. The game's site, that is.
- Distant Sequel: Episode 2 onward are set a few years apart.
- Doorstep Baby: At the end of Episode 1's final level, a baby girl is left in the nursery at the last minute, whom Carrie later adopts. In Episode 2, it's revealed she's been given the name "Safi".
- Friend to All Children: Carrie is fond of babies and children, hence her decision to become a caregiver for children specifically.
- Happily Adopted: The sequels show that Safi has grown up to be a well-adjusted girl since Carrie adopted her.
- Heartwarming Orphan: Carrie is a downplayed adult example. Carrie comes from a broken home with an absentee father who's left the family since Carrie was a baby, and her mother dies recently in the game's story. Despite her troubled upbringing, she remains kind and patient, willing to work with babies at the start of her career.
- Image Song: Invoked by Carrie via her blogs, where she mentions the songs she's written throughout the journey.
- Disappeared Dad: A verse from "Care" reveals that her father left her and her mother when she was three.
- I Am What I Am: "Be the Me" is a song about self-acceptance.
- "Setting Off" Song: "Go Girl"
- Job Title: You play as Carrie, who is a caregiver.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One of Carrie's blog posts mentions "pass[ing] another level on [a] silly computer game."
- Missing Mom: According to a blog post, Carrie's mother died some time ago while she (Carrie) was attending college.
- Protagonist Title: The title mentions the character, Carrie, who is a caregiver.
