The Last Caretaker

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The world you knew is gone. You awaken as the last active Caretaker, a machine built for one purpose: save humanity.

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Developer:
Channel37
Engine:
Unreal Engine 5
Release date:
06 November 2025
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (831)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (7877)

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Description

The world you knew is gone.

You awaken as the last active Caretaker, a machine built for one purpose: save humanity. Across a vast ocean covering the ruins of Earth, you must recover human seeds, restore the Lazarus Complex, and prepare the next generation for launch into orbit.

The Last Caretaker is a first-person survival-crafting game about systems, choices, and purpose. Every resource matters. Every structure has a reason to exist. Every success gives humanity one more chance.

SAVE HUMANITY

Recover human seeds and return them to the Lazarus Complex. Manage their growth, restore memory data, and prepare them for life beyond Earth.

BUILD WHAT YOU NEED

Scavenge abandoned facilities, dismantle wreckage, and recycle materials into tools, weapons, power networks, and essential modules. Restore the machinery needed to keep the mission alive.

DEFEND THE FUTURE

Rogue machines, hostile systems and the world itself will push back. Repair and maintain, upgrade your equipment, and protect what remains.

LAUNCH TO THE STARS

Restore ancient launch infrastructure, chart the ocean, gather resources and memories, and send the humans you raised into orbit. The mission is not survival for its own sake. It is a continuation.

A WORLD WITH HISTORY

Explore silent Sanctuary docks, Refuel Outposts, Underwater cities, and long-forgotten Seed Vaults. The story is uncovered through places, logs, memories, and the remains of a civilization that tried to outlive its own world.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 64-bit or later
Processor:
Quad-core Intel or AMD, 3.2 GHz or faster
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 or equivalent
DirectX:
Version 12
Storage:
30 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 64-bit or later
Processor:
Core i5 or Ryzen 5, 3.5 GHz or faster
Memory:
32 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT or equivalent
DirectX:
Version 12
Storage:
30 GB available space

User reviews

Ahksar
Not recommended | 16 Jul 2026
82.4h played

I found it "Meh" in its current state. Lots of fun physics stuff to play with but other than that enemies are just a bunch of tedious things like worms , slugs and wasps. There are also the sharks, but other than that

Helpful: 1
Commissar Clippy
Not recommended | 18 Jul 2026
65.6h played

The story is really interesting and the gameplay has cool features, but damn it runs like ass and the saving mechanic is such a bother. Would recommend it if the performance was fixed, but until then just wait I guess.

Helpful: 1
defenestrator
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
99.0h played

This game, even in early access, is an achievement in interactive story telling. Taking all the caveats of early access, (I think I had no fewer than 10 crashes while playing through everything that exists to date),

Helpful: 0
billizor
Recommended | 16 Jul 2026
89.8h played

Very unique worldbuilding. The lore and world discovery is close to halflife2 and the mechanics all work quite well together. Multiple resource chains that are at least somewhat realistic (they almost got the Sabatier

Helpful: 0
DirtDiver_ZA
Recommended | 16 Jul 2026
63.5h played

Managing Chaos, One Connection at a Time. The Last Caretaker is a brilliant blend of atmosphere and engineering, but the absolute star of the show is its incredibly satisfying logistics loop. If you are the type of

Helpful: 0
Vergnusszwergler3000
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
60.7h played

Great game, I loved the story even tho my PC couldn't handle it too well. I only crashed once, but I never got more than 60 fps, low qual, dlss on performance. SPOILER ALERT In case you read this even tho you haven't

Helpful: 0