The Last Caretaker Delivers on its Roadmap with Update 01: Last Humans
New Story Quests, New Vehicle, Night Vision Goggles and a Boatload of Performance Improvements
Helsinki, Finland - December 16th, 2025 - 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.
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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.
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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.
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For more information about Channel37 and The Last Caretaker, visit www.channel37.co, follow on Bluesky, X (Twitter), and Instagram, and join the community on Discord. Check out the game in Early Access on Steam and Epic Games Store.
About Channel37
Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2021, Channel37 is a boutique studio that calls upon decades of games industry experience to make bold titles that connect players and provide experiences worth talking about. The nine-person studio comprises CEO and co-founder Miika Aulio, co-founders Vesa Halonen, Antti Ilvessuo, Sami Saarinen, and Community Manager Jack Pattillo. Collectively, the team has many decades of experience in the games industry, shipping major PC and console titles.
