Join Antti and Jack as they play through Update 5.5: Deck Drop, showcasing what the update has to offer and answering community questions! HERE THE HIGHLIGHTS Expanded storage: 11 new container modules, from portable storage to large Bulk Battery, Petrol and Diesel containers. Mo
Join Antti and Jack as they play through Update 5.5: Deck Drop, showcasing what the update has to offer and answering community questions!
HERE THE HIGHLIGHTS
Expanded storage: 11 new container modules, from portable storage to large Bulk Battery, Petrol and Diesel containers.
More history to uncover: Pack of new memories and even more HoloMemories, alongside new questlines MOSES Field Reserve Program and Memory for Aron.
More places to explore: New Gyro Towers, Container Dispensers, Warehouse expansion and additional discoveries throughout the world.
A smoother game: reduced loading stutter, improved vehicle handling and cameras, clearer UI, better weather and visibility, and extensive world polish.
A major fix and balancing pass: addressing crashes, quests, crafting, rockets, cables, containers, locations and progression issues.
Discover the full list of details in our Update Post and join the Caretaker community over on our Discord for support, teasers, dev updates, and more: https://discord.gg/channel37
Caretakers, Update 5.5: Deck Drop is live for The Last Caretaker. This is our seventh Early Access update and the second additional update we have released outside the original plan. Update 6 is already in development, but enough content, optimization, fixes, and improvements wer
Caretakers,
Update 5.5: Deck Drop is live for The Last Caretaker.
This is our seventh Early Access update and the second additional update we have released outside the original plan.
Update 6 is already in development, but enough content, optimization, fixes, and improvements were ready that we decided to release them now rather than hold them back.
Join Antti and Jack as they play through Update 5.0: New Horizons, showcasing what the update has to offer and answering community questions! Update 5.0 is a substantial update but its more than just new content, more of the world fits together. The humans you send to space are n
Join Antti and Jack as they play through Update 5.0: New Horizons, showcasing what the update has to offer and answering community questions!
Update 5.0 is a substantial update but its more than just new content, more of the world fits together. The humans you send to space are no longer just numbers on a screen... The Committees have stirred and their work is signalling back to Earth. Project Eden takes root and new life grows from its success. The drowned world starts to show signs that the mission is actually going somewhere.
WHAT'S NEW
Project Eden begins: Build the first visible stage of Earth’s restoration as committee progress turns into something you can see growing in the world.
The Committees awaken: Humans launched into orbit now push humanity’s long-term future forward through new development paths and restoration goals.
Project Jonah: A new whale encounter, questline, lore, rewards, and a dedicated summoning location.
Cultural Memories: Discover Cave Paintings, HoloMemories, Statue Spires, Samples, and other traces of the world that came before.
New exploration and quest content: Enter Theta-9, a sealed research facility built to study Roth’s Anomaly, and follow new questlines.
New tools and systems: Use TideRipper™ Hand Jets, the Rhino Dismantler, Recovery Grinder, PECO Grid Scan 2000, Data Recovery Deck music playback, Rocket Payload fabrication, and more.
Major technical improvements: New wave and weather systems, reduced memory consumption, HDR support, controller and UI improvements, and optimization across gameplay systems, vehicles, physics, cables, weather, and large save games.
Enhanced localization: Italian and Spanish in-game text translations added
Discover the full list of details hereand join the 20,000+ Caretaker community over on our Discord: https://discord.gg/channel37
Caretakers, Update 5.0: New Horizons is live for The Last Caretaker. This is a big update, but the important part is not just that we added more. It is that more of the game now connects. The humans you launch into orbit no longer feel like they simply disappear into a success st
Caretakers,
Update 5.0: New Horizons is live for The Last Caretaker.
This is a big update, but the important part is not just that we added more.
It is that more of the game now connects.
The humans you launch into orbit no longer feel like they simply disappear into a success state. The Committees wake up. Their work begins to reach back down to Earth. Project Eden begins. Trees rise from progress. The drowned world starts to show that the mission is reaching somewhere.
New Horizons moves The Last Caretaker from survival toward restoration.
You are still recovering, repairing, recycling, building, launching, and fighting to keep humanity alive.
But now the world starts to change because of it.
Project Eden begins. Project Jonah surfaces. Cultural Memories return. Committees activate. New tools expand how you move, scan, dismantle, recover, and build. The ocean is rougher. The game is smoother. Older content has been tuned and improved.
THE NOT SO SHORT VERSION FOR CARETAKERS
PROJECT EDEN BEGINS
Project Eden is the first visible stage of Earth’s restoration.
Until now, the mission has been about keeping humanity’s future alive: recover human seeds, restore systems, grow people, launch them into orbit.
New Horizons begins the next step.
As committee progress grows, Eden begins to rise from the sea. Restoration is no longer only something hidden in terminals, menus, or distant orbital systems. It becomes visible in the world.
Trees begin to grow because the work is reaching somewhere.
This matters because The Last Caretaker is not only about survival.
Survival is the start.
Restoration is the question after it.
THE COMMITTEES WAKE UP
The Committees now play a bigger role in shaping humanity’s future.
Humans launched into orbit begin to organize around long-term development goals. Their work feeds into Project Eden and the wider future of the mission.
This is one of the main ideas behind New Horizons:
Your launches should matter beyond the launch itself.
A human sent to orbit is not just a completed objective.
They are part of what comes next.
PROJECT JONAH SURFACES
Something large moves below.
Project Jonah introduces a new whale encounter, questline, lore, rewards, and a dedicated encounter location.
Jonah is a piece of old-world logic: biology turned into infrastructure, instinct turned into logistics, an animal made useful by people who were running out of options.
The animal comes when called.
Good luck with what that means.
CULTURAL MEMORIES
Rebuilding humanity without memory is just manufacturing.
New Horizons expands the world’s history through Cultural Memories, HoloMemories, cave paintings, statue discoveries, samples, and new recovery systems.
Using the Photodrone, players can recover samples and uncover traces of the world that came before. Some things matter because they prove humans were here. They remembered gods, animals, stories, grief, work, and each other.
Culture is not decoration in The Last Caretaker.
It is part of what makes the mission worth continuing.
RESEARCH OUTPOST THETA-9
New Horizons also opens Research Outpost Theta-9, a sealed abyssal facility built to study Roth’s Anomaly.
This is a deeper, stranger research location tied to the old world’s attempts to understand what was happening below the surface.
Expect sealed systems, flooded spaces, old records, and the kind of decisions humans make when they convince themselves the result will justify the method.
The update also includes new content such as Make an Oath, plus broader tuning across older levels and progression routes.
NEW TOOLS FOR A DEEPER WORLD
New Horizons adds several tools and systems that expand how players interact with the world.
The Rhino Dismantler is a petrol-powered dismantling beast for faster, louder, messier recovery work.
The Recovery Grinder adds new recycling and material recovery options.
TideRipper™ Hand Jets introduce a new way to move through water.
PECO Grid Scan 2000 helps players see connections and understand how systems are linked.
The Data Recovery Deck brings MOD music playback into the world.
Rocket Payload Module fabrication and tuning expands the rocket preparation loop.
Wall Transfer Sockets allow resources to move through walls, making base layouts and system planning more flexible.
This is the practical side of New Horizons:
More tools.
But more importantly, more ways for systems to connect.
THE BOAT GROWS
New Horizons introduces the first boat extension: the Gyro Deck.
The Salvage Gyro changed how players read the horizon in Update 4. The Gyro Deck now helps bring that aerial access closer to the player’s mobile base.
The boat is becoming more than transport.
It is becoming a working platform.
A place that carries tools, systems, vehicles, mistakes, and whatever the Caretaker refuses to leave behind.
ROUGHER SEAS, STRONGER SYSTEMS
The ocean has also been updated.
New Horizons includes higher waves and a new wave system, making travel and exploration feel rougher and more alive.
Under the hood, we made a major memory optimization pass and continued improving performance, stability, UI, controller support, gameplay systems, vehicles, physics, cables, weather, and large save behavior.
There are also many bug fixes and tuning changes across older content.
Early Access trust is built in small places: The old level that flows better. The save that survives more abuse than it should.
We know those things matter.
We are still working through them.
Please keep reporting what breaks.
UPDATED DEMO
The free demo has also been updated.
It now reflects more of the current Early Access experience, including recent tuning, optimization, and a clearer introduction to the game’s survival, crafting, resource, and exploration systems.
If you have been waiting to try The Last Caretaker, this is a better first step into the ocean.
If you know someone who has been waiting, now is a good time to nudge them.
Dear Caretakers, Join Antti and Jack as they play through the highlights of UPDATE 04: BELOW US and answer community questions! WHAT'S NEW: Salvage Gyro for taking to the skies Gyro Service Towers with recoverable blueprints Seed Vault Eden Cradle, now open to explore Project Can
Dear Caretakers,
Join Antti and Jack as they play through the highlights of UPDATE 04: BELOW US and answer community questions!
WHAT'S NEW:
Salvage Gyro for taking to the skies
Gyro Service Towers with recoverable blueprints
Seed Vault Eden Cradle, now open to explore
Project Canticle
HoloMemory: a world that remembers what came before
Discover the full list of details in our Update Post and join the 19,000+ Caretaker community over on our Discord for support, teasers, dev updates, and more: https://discord.gg/channel37
Content Update 4: Below Us is Live Caretakers, Content Update 4: Below Us is now live for The Last Caretaker . This is one of our largest updates so far. It expands the world, adds new tools, opens new locations, introduces new traces of the past, and includes another major round
Content Update 4: Below Us is Live
Caretakers,
Content Update 4: Below Us is now live for The Last Caretaker.
This is one of our largest updates so far. It expands the world, adds new tools, opens new locations, introduces new traces of the past, and includes another major round of fixes, optimization, and polish.
You can now take to the air with the Salvage Gyro.
You can discover Gyro Service Towers and recover lost gyro blueprints.
You can enter Seed Vault Eden Cradle.
Project Canticle.
And the world now remembers more of what happened before.
The Ocean Opens Further
The world of The Last Caretaker has always been about systems, distance, purpose, and choices.
With Content Update 4, we wanted to open the world in new directions.
That is where the Salvage Gyro comes in. The Salvage Gyro is a new light utility aircraft built for reaching high platforms, deep pits, service towers, and isolated locations.
Content Update 4 also adds Gyro Service Towers.
These are high field-service platforms built for maintaining and repairing Salvage Gyros. The towers contain lost gyro blueprints, tools, parts, and field-service equipment. They were never showpiece infrastructure. They were practical places where tired crews kept one ugly little aircraft alive because it could still lift a pump, battery, cable bundle, or machine part when nothing else could. This is also why the blueprints survived there. If a gyro broke far from a proper workshop, the tower had to contain enough information to patch it, rebuild it, or fabricate missing parts locally.
Seed Vault Eden Cradle
Eden Cradle is a new maze-like Seed Vault area with separated chambers and deeper links to humanity’s survival systems.
Project Canticle
Project Canticle opens a new area connected to the deeper mystery of the world.
We do not want to over-explain this one here.
It is better found than described.
HoloMemory
The update also introduces HoloMemory. A new system that reveals visual traces of past events in select world locations. More than collectibles, echoes are fragments of what came before, moments left behind in the world, waiting to be seen.
New Tools
Content Update 4 also adds several new practical tools.
Decoy Pod A new tactical deployable pod for redirecting threats and creating space when direct fighting is not the best answer.
Drone Charging Station A new module that supports longer and more useful drone scouting.
Hook Cables New cable functionality that can attach to structures and expand physical interaction.
New World Areas
This update adds and improves multiple world areas, including:
New Silo locations, Methane Conversion Pits
New and updated areas across Lyra
New Salvage Gyro-related service platforms
New environmental passes in existing locations
Updated loot placement and exploration rewards
The Methane Conversion Pits are deep vertical climate-engineering shafts, reaching more than 180 meters down, with machine rooms and methane pipe systems below.
They are large, industrial, and not especially friendly.
Good luck.
Weather, Audio, and Atmosphere
We also made a broad pass on the world’s atmosphere.
This includes:
Improved weather behavior
Reduced fog density in certain conditions
Better underwater visibility through glass
New environmental visual effects
Improved glass visuals and refraction
The world should feel more alive, even when no one is there.
F.E.L.I.S.
F.E.L.I.S. has received updates based on player feedback.
F.E.L.I.S. is now cheaper and more customizable, with improved audio behavior and visual presentation.
Under the Hood
Content Update 4 also includes a large technical pass. This includes improvements to:
CPU performance
GPU performance
Physics performance
Vehicle stability
World streaming
Collisions
Environmental stability
Save Export / Import
Content Update 4 adds improved save game management, including backup restoration options, save import, and save export.
This helps players share game states, send reproduction files, and recover from certain save-related issues more easily.
Join Antti and Jack as they play through Update 3.5: Shadow Drop and showcase elements of what the update has to offer and answer community questions! Update 3.5: Shadow Drop is the direct result of your input. We've tracked your feedback and decided against waiting for the next
Join Antti and Jack as they play through Update 3.5: Shadow Drop and showcase elements of what the update has to offer and answer community questions!
Update 3.5: Shadow Drop is the direct result of your input. We've tracked your feedback and decided against waiting for the next major release to resolve these issues. This extra update focuses on the things players feel every day, making the game more stable and smooth.
WHAT'S NEW:
Major fixes + optimization to address broken persistence, unreliable cables, fabrication inconsistencies, progression blocks, and graphics lag in certain areas
New Photo Drone for taking photos/screenshots, scouting areas, and seeing a new perspective on the drowned world
PECO cartridges + playable minigames to challenge even the quickest robotic reflexes
More hidden rooms, caves, vents, and secrets throughout familiar locations
New expansions to the world such as a new storm region, support buoys, and higher-quality environmental details
New customization paints for weapons
Discover the full list of details here and join the 18,000+ Caretaker community over on our Discord:
Attention, all Caretakers! We have a surprise update for everyone, now live for all Early Access players. Update 3.5: Shadow Drop contains many fixes originally intended for Update 4. However, based on your community feedback, we at Channel37 decided not to wait. We’ve already im
Attention, all Caretakers! We have a surprise update for everyone, now live for all Early Access players. Update 3.5: Shadow Drop contains many fixes originally intended for Update 4. However, based on your community feedback, we at Channel37 decided not to wait. We’ve already implemented the fixes on our side, so why not just get them into your hands now?
Shadow Drop is an unscheduled update that focuses on two things. First, we wish to make the game feel even better than before. Second, we added a bouquet of interesting additional content to make our world more worthy of return visits.
Major fixes + optimization to address broken persistence, unreliable cables, fabrication inconsistencies, progression blocks, and graphics lag in certain areas
New Photo Drone for taking photos/screenshots, scouting areas, and seeing a new perspective on the drowned world
PECO cartridges + playable minigames to challenge even the quickest robotic reflexes
More hidden rooms, caves, vents, and secrets throughout familiar locations
New expansions to the world such as a new storm region, support buoys, and higher-quality environmental details.
New customization paints for weapons
You might be wondering what exactly “feels better” now? Well, Shadow Drop is a direct result of our community feedback. So this update addresses issues that are hitting players every day.
Equipment, drones, cables, and world objects all behave more reliably now
Fabrication and placement work more consistently
Better graphics performance will be seen in asset intense environments
Many frustrating edge-case bugs that block progression are now eliminated
In other words, there’s less fighting the systems and more playing the game.
If you like the direction of the game, jump back in and play Shadow Drop. And if the game feels better to you now, that’s exactly why we shipped this update early.
As for Update 4, all the upcoming and exciting major content is still on schedule and still on track. We just didn’t want to sit on fixes for weeks that would improve your game right now.
Our small, hard-working team made a deep pass across persistence, cable simulation, fabrication, physics/buoyancy, AI navigation, vehicles, UI, and graphics performance. Their fixes stabilized world state reconstruction, attachment graphs, and post-load behavior.
We're only posting a quick summary of the key changes down below. However, the underlying work spans thousands of tracked changes across Perforce/Jira. We’ll spare you the full commit list.
New content & features
A new craftable Camera Drone was added, including the ability to scout and capture screenshots.
PECO terminals now supports cartridges and playable minigames.
Pots and pans were added as new world items.
New weapon paints were added for the bolt gun, including support for more weapon variants.
New rooms, caves, vents, secrets, and hidden areas were added across multiple locations, including Refuel Outpost Gamma, Refuel Outpost Theta, Sanctuary Dock 37, Nomad Tower, Prometheus, Platform Omega, Helios Gemini, Quarantine Stack Amen, Quarantine Stack Chorus, Habitat Node 05-14.5, and Node 04.
A new storm region was added to the northern sea.
New Human Pods were added to the Hall of Humanity and the rocket areas.
New hologram content was added to Lazarus, including a new human hologram model and related scene elements.
New support buoys and ocean loot were added, including an Electrical Supplies Buoy to help early-game progression.
Dead Swarms can now be found in fishing nets.
Bug fixes
Fixed a recycling issue where recycling a dead swarm item could incorrectly convert bio into food.
Fixed several Camera Drone issues, including buoyancy, audio, controls, staying upright, and entering or exiting vehicles.
Fixed multiple cable issues, including cables disconnecting, floating, sticking, failing to connect properly, colliding incorrectly, and behaving unreliably after loading or destroying connected modules.
Fixed several fabrication and placement issues, including blocked fabrication, incorrect placement direction, invalid colliders, and items not welding correctly when built.
Fixed multiple collisions and stuck spots across the world, including issues in Lazarus vents, Rollerboi Factory, Exodus Station, Sanctuary Dock 37, Refuel Outpost Gamma, Quarantine Stack Dawn, Quarantine Stack Amen, and other environment locations.
Fixed several quests and progression issues, including scan quests, alternative quest failure states, rocket launch progression, Friendly by Design scan tracking, and Rollerboi Factory progression.
Fixed multiple door, hatch, trigger, and interaction issues, including doors getting stuck, handles being hard to reach, triggers being misplaced, and certain doors blocking progression.
Fixed several hologram and pod issues in Lazarus, including feet placement, body proportions, animation updates, pod tracking, and save-related power problems.
Fixed wind turbines working indoors and improved indoor checks for related modules.
Fixed elevators sharing resources incorrectly.
Fixed single-use container issues, including socket interaction, velocity transfer, stacking, and item spawning behavior.
Fixed attachment and weapon persistence issues, including attachments disappearing and attachment positioning problems.
Fixed sharks spinning wildly.
Fixed eggs dealing damage through floors and eggs blocking or interfering with progression in certain locations.
Fixed farming issues, including floating plants, incorrect dirt level behavior, and bio waste being destroyed when already at the limit.
Fixed multiple UI and text issues, including slider behavior, profession capitalization, missing spaces, subtitle formatting, unreadable time formatting, localization errors, and incorrect interact text.
Fixed several visual issues, including mirrored stickers, incorrect paint textures, clipping meshes, scrolling surface details, shadow artifacts, and visible objects appearing when they should not.
Fixed rain not appearing in the open sea.
Fixed loot and item issues, including unlootable cash, incorrect trash data, incorrect item categories, missing icons, and some modules not updating visually.
Fixed boat-related issues, including anchors, lights, floodlights, blue buoy behavior, and cheats affecting multiple boats incorrectly.
Fixed consumable use and glowsticks not stacking correctly into holsters.
Other changes and improvements
Forklift audio was improved, including new sounds for the engine, horn, lift, and tilt.
Horn now has new properties to perform single-shot sounds with delay and duration.
Save and persistence handling was improved for equipment, drones, replaced actors, and other world objects.
Performance was improved in several areas, including module mesh updates, boat lights, water behavior, council screen updates, and major scene performance in Lazarus.
Resource and power sharing behavior was improved across connected modules and grid networks.
Cable visuals and behavior were improved, including better shaping, damping, collision, and appearance options.
Boat floodlights were adjusted to better keep leeches off the deck.
Boat anchor behavior was improved.
Wind turbine durability loss was reduced.
Repair electricity costs now scale better with the amount of damage.
The scan requirement for the Friendly by Design quest was reduced.
Several module descriptions, item descriptions, and icons were updated for better clarity.
Various world visuals and decorations were improved across locations such as Warehouse, Hangar, Sanctuary, Lyra, Theta, Rollerboi Factory, Beacon 49, and underwater areas.
Human-related tooltips and presentation were improved in places such as the food processor and hologram sequences.
Time-of-day behavior and weather presentation were improved.
Hey Caretakers! We hope you've been enjoying Update 03: Curiosity Wakes! Since Curiosity Wakes went live, we've listened closely to everything you’ve shared with us and based on your feedback we have rolled out hotfixes and improvements: March 21st, 2026 - Changes and Fixes: Fixe
Hey Caretakers!
We hope you've been enjoying Update 03: Curiosity Wakes!
Since Curiosity Wakes went live, we've listened closely to everything you’ve shared with us and based on your feedback we have rolled out hotfixes and improvements:
March 21st, 2026 - [Update 03: Build 0.7.0.609056]Changes and Fixes:
Fixed an issue where certain objects could lose their saved data or have incorrect IDs.
Fixed cables becoming disconnected when areas were unloaded.
Fixed incorrect key binding texts for certain keyboard layouts.
Fixed issues with areas and rooms not updating or being detected correctly.
Fixed an issue where dropping paint items from inventory would drop more items than intended.
Improved handling of object attachments to prevent unintended detachment.
Improved material updates for building modules to ensure visuals remain consistent.
Fixed an issue where the Consecutive Hoops achievement was not resetting correctly after progress increased.
Improved consistency of object scaling when resetting items.
March 23rd, 2026 - [Update 03: Build 0.7.0.609096]Changes and Fixes:
Fixed an issue where mantling could be blocked incorrectly.
Fixed an issue where cable directions were not always saved correctly.
Fixed scan quests progressing incorrectly when scanning non-required items and allowing certain characters to be scanned after the quest was completed.
Fixed an issue in the Rollerboi factory where progression could be blocked, allowing interactions to function correctly.
March 31st, 2026 - [Update 03: Build 0.7.0.609383]Changes and Fixes:
Significantly improved overall performance, especially in complex areas.
Added a new simplified shadow system when ray tracing is disabled, improving performance by over three times in complex lighting situations such as Lazarus Complex.
Improved performance of structure and module updates.
Improved validation processes for connected systems and modules.
Fixed an issue where weapon attachments could disappear when swapping holstered weapons.
Fixed invalid items being allowed to use holster slots when using the item context menu.
The latest patch has a strong focus on performance in core areas. We want The Last Caretaker to feel as smooth and responsive as possible, so that players can stay immersed in the world we are building together.
Please keep the feedback coming, we really appreciate it, we are listening and reacting to it!
I've been intrigued by oceanic survival sim The Last Caretaker since it was announced, but I have also been a little confused by its tone. Is it a melancholy adventure about being the last sentient being on an abandoned Earth, an optimistic sci-fi story about ensuring the long-te
I've been intrigued by oceanic survival sim The Last Caretaker since it was announced, but I have also been a little confused by its tone. Is it a melancholy adventure about being the last sentient being on an abandoned Earth, an optimistic sci-fi story about ensuring the long-term survival of the human race by growing people in vats and launching them into space, or a knockabout crafting-explore-o-thon where you build a big daft base on your boat?.. Read more.
Join Antti and Jack as they play our latest update, Curiosity Wakes, where they will showcase all the brand-new features and content the update has to offer! To celebrate, we’re also launching our first ever 20% discount on Steam between March 19 and March 26 Be sure to tell a fr
Join Antti and Jack as they play our latest update, Curiosity Wakes, where they will showcase all the brand-new features and content the update has to offer!
To celebrate, we’re also launching our first ever 20% discount on Steam between March 19 and March 26 Be sure to tell a friend to come and join the fun!
Update 03: Curiosity Wakes - Highlights:
Contact with Space
The new Council of Humanity and committee system lets launched humans take seats and perform actions through a terminal.
New Threats
Ram Sharks, Laser Sharks, and ArchAngels join the world. Enemies spawn smarter and behave in more deliberate ways.
New Story Content
Discover new quests and new locations as the world expands.
You’re Not Alone Anymore
Unlock new support gameplay with the Sweetheart grenade, a craftable Sweetheart item, and a new friendly swarm type.
Performance + Stability
A major CPU/GPU optimization pass, broad system tuning, and a long list of fixes across saves, cables, swarms, modules, doors, and more.
Join the 17,000+ Caretaker community over on our Discord:
Ahoy Caretakers! Curiosity Wakes is live now for all Early Access players. This update pushes the mission forward in huge ways: you finally make contact with space , new threats rise out of the ocean, and for the first time, you can bring a little help with you. ▶ Watch the Updat
Ahoy Caretakers! Curiosity Wakes is live now for all Early Access players. This update pushes the mission forward in huge ways: you finally make contact with space, new threats rise out of the ocean, and for the first time, you can bring a little help with you.
Contact with space: the new Council of Humanity and committee system enables launched humans take seats and perform actions through a terminal
New threats: Ram Sharks, Laser Sharks, and ArchAngels join the world. Enemies spawn smarter and behave in more deliberate ways.
New story content: New quests and locations.
You’re not alone anymore: unlock new support gameplay with the Sweetheart grenade, craftable Sweetheart item, and a new friendly swarm type
Performance + stability: major CPU/GPU optimization pass, broad system tuning, and a long list of fixes across saves, cables, swarms, modules, doors, and more
More in this update
Curiosity Wakes also expands the world with new and updated gameplay in the Council of Humanity, Rollerboi Factory, and Shark Containment. New tools and systems include the Dehumidifier, CO₂ storage containers, Boat Stabilizer, Farming Bed V2, and a buildable Mooring Socket. Customization also diversifies with new ores, nuggets, and pigments used to craft new Caretaker paint options.
In terms of polish, we’ve improved underwater control and swimming, climbing and traversal on rocky islands, vehicle handling, enemy behavior, UI feedback, particle/audio response, and visual clarity across multiple systems. On lower-end hardware, performance is now up to 10% faster than before.
The bug fixes
This update also fixes a long list of issues, including:
Inventory transfers deleting items when space runs out
Invalid or mismatched saves loading through Continue
Recycler remainder bugs
Anchor / moving wall / drawbridge persistence after loading
Buoyancy issues on containers
Stacking transfer limits not being respected
Doors and door detectors not triggering correctly
Shark spawning and special attack issues
Mooring sockets issues
Miniroller navigation and stair pathing
Maze door and ladder door interactions
Underwater brightness / depth-of-field problems
Multiple crashes tied to cables, swarms, and module updates
In this video, Jack cleverly found out a way to speedrun our enhanced Demo. Have you figured out interesting ways to play The Last Caretaker? Please share them with our community! Still on the fence? Download the freshly upgraded Demo and give it a whirl. But if you feel ready to
In this video, Jack cleverly found out a way to speedrun our enhanced Demo. Have you figured out interesting ways to play The Last Caretaker? Please share them with our community!
Still on the fence? Download the freshly upgraded Demo and give it a whirl.
But if you feel ready to dive head-first into our flooded world, now's the perfect time to grab The Last Caretaker on Early Access and embark on the epic journey to survive the flooded Earth and save humanity! The Last Caretaker - Early Access
If you've played the Demo or the full game, your review on Steam helps us a lot by providing feedback we can use to shape the game.
Callout to all robot saviors of humanity! We’re dropping a strongly upgraded DEMO with new and improved content for The Last Caretaker. If you tried our demo before, now is a good time to boot it up again. The updated demo makes your starting area, the Sanctuary Dock, feel smooth
Callout to all robot saviors of humanity! We’re dropping a strongly upgraded DEMO with new and improved content for The Last Caretaker. If you tried our demo before, now is a good time to boot it up again. The updated demo makes your starting area, the Sanctuary Dock, feel smoother and more alive with many new activities to try out. We’ve also opened up new areas you can explore right away.
Performance & Stability: Our team performed major optimisation work which should result in smoother overall gameplay.
UI/UX Improvements: Quality-of-life upgrades include container sorting, inventory search, clearer prompts, keybinds that FINALLY stay saved. Less scrolling hell, saved binds = no more re-setup.
New Diving Intro Area: Added an area with new tutorial content to explore underwater around the Sanctuary Dock. Be sure to dodge predators.
Painting in style: Added appearance customization features for your boat. It’s way more fun than watching paint dry.
Swimming in Cash: You’re rich! Cash money from the “old world” can now be salvaged for resources. Money won’t buy happiness, but it might help build a wind turbine.
Scan Tool: Grab a Replica Scanner in the demo and give it a whirl. Zzzzt! Yay, it works.
Improved Crafting: New crafting visuals and a new option to toggle “snap-to-grid” when building new assets around the world. Now your Sanctuary Dock won’t look as if it was decorated by a Caretaker with zero spatial awareness… unless that’s your intended aesthetic.
Improved Dismantling: New dismantling effects for each type of salvage. Now you can destroy things more beautifully.
Boat Phone: Who you gonna call? CARETAKER! If you hear a phone ringing, pick it up. It’s not a telemarketer.
Just one ask
If this update helps the demo click better for you, please leave us a review.
Ready to take the plunge? The Last Caretaker is available NOW in Early Access here
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Ahoy Caretakers Update 02: OCEAN - The Final Frontier is live now and free for all Early Access players. This update adds a new way to travel, new quest locations to uncover and a lot of work under the hood to keep your voyage stable as the world expands. HIGHLIGHTS NEW VEHICALE:
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Update 02: OCEAN - The Final Frontier is live now and free for all Early Access players.
This update adds a new way to travel, new quest locations to uncover and a lot of work under the hood to keep your voyage stable as the world expands.
One last thing... If you’re enjoying the direction of the game, a Steam review helps more than you think: it’s the clearest signal you can send. See you on the water.
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If you just want the quick version, read the highlights above. If you want it all, here are the full details:
Hey Caretakers! We have rolled out a patch to the The Last Caretaker, which focuses on fixing the boat speed issue we have seen players experiencing since our recent patch. The bug is now fixed, thank you for bringing it to our attention and for your patience! CHANGES Fixed boat
Hey Caretakers!
We have rolled out a patch to the The Last Caretaker, which focuses on fixing the boat speed issue we have seen players experiencing since our recent patch. The bug is now fixed, thank you for bringing it to our attention and for your patience!
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Fixed boat speed issues.
Please continue to share any issues, crashes or feedback using the in-game tool, on our Discord or email: [email protected]
In the meantime we hope you enjoy taking this journey with us, as we continue to refine the The Last Caretaker experience! We really appreciate it.
Until next time, safe travels and thanks for joining us on this journey.
Hey Caretakers! Today we have rolled out an update / patch which focuses on fixing some of the common bugs and issues we have seen since our first update, Last Humans. CHANGES Fixed issues with physics not activating or deactivating correctly. Fixed cables disconnecting when they
Hey Caretakers!
Today we have rolled out an update / patch which focuses on fixing some of the common bugs and issues we have seen since our first update, Last Humans.
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Fixed issues with physics not activating or deactivating correctly.
Fixed cables disconnecting when they should remain connected.
Fixed doors that were not updating correctly.
Fixed some potential game-crashing issues during gameplay and loading the savegame.
Fixed the power optimizer enhancer not working as intended.
Fixed an issue where Lazarus pod seeds could disappear when attachment failed.
Fixed issues with attached objects behaving incorrectly on vehicles and elevators.
Fixed extra and broken horn connection points.
Fixed particle effects that were incorrectly affecting physics.
Added ray tracing options to the graphics settings menu.
Improved stability and consistency of swarm-related behavior in the world.
Improved attachment behavior for objects connected to vehicles.
Improved handling of invalid or missing particle effects to prevent unwanted behavior.
Thanks again for the support whilst we continue to improve The Last Caretaker experience, we really appreciate it. Please keep sharing bug reports and feedback via the in-game tool, on our Discord or reach out to us here: [email protected]
Until next time, safe travels and thanks for joining us on this journey.
Ahoy Caretakers, We’ve been reviewing save games, error reports, and feedback , and have just pushed a new hotfix focused on stability and persistence issues. This update continues our work to make The Last Caretaker more reliable with every patch. Fixes & Improvements Fixed
Ahoy Caretakers,
We’ve been reviewing save games, error reports, and feedback, and have just pushed a new hotfix focused on stability and persistence issues. This update continues our work to make The Last Caretaker more reliable with every patch.
Fixes & Improvements
Fixed save persistence issues that could corrupt stored zones.
Improved boat stability during loading to prevent broken attachments.
Fixed dismantling issues while on a moving boat.
Corrected dismantle loot data for SoilForge Prime.
Fixed door-related issues.
Improved object restoration and validation to prevent unintended deletions.
Fixed several forklift, attachment, and level-loading edge cases.
As always, your reports help guide these fixes. Please keep sending feedback through the in-game reporting tools or Discord — we read it all.
Whats New New locations and quests: The Warehouse opens for business, a new Hangar, caves, Habitat Nodes and secrets to uncover. New items and modules: Forklift DONK-LIFT 3200 “Not your first choice. But the one you’re stuck with”, Compost Modules (Mark I & Mark II) and updat
Whats New
New locations and quests: The Warehouse opens for business, a new Hangar, caves, Habitat Nodes and secrets to uncover.
New items and modules: Forklift DONK-LIFT 3200 “Not your first choice. But the one you’re stuck with”, Compost Modules (Mark I & Mark II) and updates to recycler systems, Binoculars, Telescope, Night Vision Goggles, Health Injector, Underwater water-functional glowsticks, basketball game, horn with tunes.
New enhancements & achievements.
Round of fixes: tuning, crash fixes, stability and performance improvements.
The team is already working hard on our next update, Ocean: The Final Frontier. Which will bring more new content, features and improvements:
New vehicle: Jetski
Lightning rods
Fishing with net launcher and SONAR
Boat customizations
More weather variations.
And much more!
We’ve received lots of feedback so far and we truly appreciate every comment, suggestion and report you’ve shared. Your input helps us shape the game in meaningful ways, so please keep it coming. We’re listening!
Update 01 - Last Humans is not just a milestone. It is a signal: the mission is progressing and humanity still has a chance!
Prepare your tools. Upgrade your systems. The next phase of the mission is approaching. Together, we will rebuild. Together, we will save humanity.
