About the Game
You are the last caretaker; a reawakened machine tasked with saving the future of the human race. You will explore a vast ocean world featuring a deep crafting system with limited resources, allowing you to forge your path and build the tools to save humanity.
The Earth has been swallowed by the ocean as towering megastructures rust under a yawning sky. The Last Caretaker isn't just about survival, it's about discovery. Your choices shape the narrative, offering a personal and thought-provoking adventure that reaches from the sea to the stars.
The Last Caretaker is a thoughtful take on the survival-crafting genre, where every decision you make and every action has a consequence. Immerse yourself in a meticulously crafted world where the fate of humanity rests in your hands. Your mission is clear: recover human seeds, reactivate the Lazarus Complex, and launch the last of humanity to the stars.
NURTURE HUMANS
Care for and grow human seeds within the Lazarus Complex, managing crucial systems like incubation temperature, nutrient flow, and memory data integration. Unlock advanced biopods and synthetic caretakers to accelerate development and ensure successful revival. Discover emotional imprints and past memories encoded in each seed, piecing together lost human stories as you bring life back into the world.
PROTECT HUMANS
Defend the Lazarus Complex from rogue machines and environmental threats. Build automated defenses, upgrade your mobile platform, and deploy countermeasures during storms and system breaches. Safeguard the vulnerable human seeds and ensure the sanctuary remains operational while under siege. Strategic choices in protection systems can determine the fate of the last generation of humans.
LAUNCH ROCKETS INTO ORBIT
Restore and reactivate the ancient MOSES launch infrastructure to send reborn humans beyond the drowning world. Scavenge for launch codes, refine fuel, and rebuild navigation AI systems to ensure mission success. Each launch is a calculated risk but a necessary one to preserve the species. Watch your nurtured humans ascend into orbit, carrying with them the hopes of humanity’s future.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
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.
▶ INCOMING DIRECTIVE - WATCH CONTENT UPDATE 4: BELOW US TRAILER
Highlights
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.
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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.
For Early Access, this matters a lot.
You can read the full patch notes here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1783560/discussions/0/844005830910046317/
Join the community
▶ Discord: https://discord.gg/channel37
▶ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastCaretaker/
We hope you enjoy all of the new content!
Safe travels.
--Channel37
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.
▶ Watch the Update 3.5: Shadow Drop trailer:
Update 3.5 Shadow Drop Highlights
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
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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.
▶ Full patch notes: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1783560/discussions/0/804596796626077049/
Feedback
If you encounter an issue, the most useful and actionable reports include:
What you were doing
What you expected to happen
What actually happened
Steps to reproduce, if possible
Screenshot/video, if you have one
Join our community and give us all your thoughts, comments, and feedback here:
Discord:
One ask:
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.
Safe travels.
--Channel37
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 Update 03 trailer:
Highlights
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
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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
▶ Full patch notes: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1783560/discussions/0/802342466057441399/
Feedback (Humans: keep it coming)
We read Steam Discussions and Discord. If you hit a bug, the fastest way to help is to mention:
What you were doing
What you expected vs. what happened
The steps to reproduce, if possible
Screenshot or video, if you have one
Discord: https://discord.gg/channel37
One ask: if you’re enjoying the progress the game is making a Steam review. It helps more than you think and it’s the clearest signal you can send.
Safe travels.
--Channel37
Current Release
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Uploaded May 22, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Voyage.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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