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 (842)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (7884)

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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

LONG4748
Recommended | 19 Jul 2026
95.4h played

This has to be the Best Simulation Game I have ever played! You go your own pace and if you like to Craft...this game is for you. DEEP Immersion here so time slips from you fairly easy. Really like this Game alot and it

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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.

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WarDog
Not recommended | 19 Jul 2026
48.1h played

I have too much problems to recommend this game. What this game does great is like the demo. You are on a platform where you can explore and solve puzzles, usually just connecting stuff. The bore comes from the

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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
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
Skinz
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
44.3h played

About 40 hours in, and am thoroughly impressed. The game feels polished. Did I lose 'cargo' that was strung up on my boat for no reason? yes. Do I think that would happen in real life because I'm not a sailor? yes.

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