The Last Caretaker Delivers on its Roadmap with Update 01: Last Humans
Channel37 has launched Update 01: Last Humans for hit sci-fi survival-crafting game The Last Caretaker. The first of a series of Early Access roadmap updates includes new story quests, surface and underwater locations, a new vehicle, night vision goggles and a raft of performance and stability enhancements. Update 01: Last Humans arrives in time for the Steam Winter Sale, where The Last Caretaker returns to launch pricing, with a 15% discount.
Delivering on its development roadmap, Channel37’s first update for The Last Caretaker includes three new questlines for intrepid Caretakers: “Secret of Habitat Nodes”, “One Before Me”, and “Secret of Warehouse,” unlocking new locations and stories from the flooded world.
The update delivers a boatload of new additions, including a basketball mini-game, a drivable forklift, night vision goggles, and a horn with a customisable chromatic scale and speaker system for the musically-minded Caretaker. In addition, performance improvements across physics systems, rendering, and UI have been implemented after direct feedback from the growing community.
Update 01: Last Humans is the first of many updates planned for The Last Caretaker. The next update, Ocean: The Final Frontier, launches in early 2026 and features a Jetski, storms and lightning rods, a fishing and salvage update, along with boat customization. Check out the road map image to see the full schedule of updates.
The Last Caretaker is a thoughtful take on the survival-crafting genre featuring a modular crafting system and resource-based combat with unrivalled depth.
Key features include:
Dynamic Resource Management: Your resources are your means of survival. Make choices between crafting weapons for offense or saving your materials for an easy exit from fearsome mechanical foes.
Immersive Worldbuilding: A real, living world. This isn’t decoration, it’s a place that exists. A vast ocean scattered with silent docks, rusting towers, navigation beacons, and forgotten vaults. Every structure has a purpose, every ruin tells a story of what was left behind.
Modular Crafting System: The world is your salvage yard. Dismantle abandoned structures, tear down machinery, and decide what is worth carrying to the recycler to craft weapons, power grids, and tools in a dynamic and deep crafting system.
Save Humanity: The Last Caretaker builds upon four years of hand-crafted systems to deliver a world where every action has purpose. Every success means humanity has one more chance.