
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
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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. 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.

Recover human seeds and return them to the Lazarus Complex. Manage their growth, restore memory data, and prepare them for life beyond Earth.
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.
Rogue machines, hostile systems and the world itself will push back. Repair and maintain, upgrade your equipment, and protect what remains.
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.
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.
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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 210 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
No automation , absolutelly ZERO. You must run whole game like idiot after resources which you handfeed into scrapper. Disguisting.
boat :thumb:
I love this game because. BOAT. But its a fun semi-survival open water game that I plan to sink hundreds of hours into. Especially if they keep expanding/updating the game. It has potential! The story is pretty interesting once you get going. leveling feels stable and straight forward. The boat handles like a. Boat! it is rather well structured for building upon, with pretty much any surface able to hold something to it. Weapons feel okay, the lack of sights is annoying, took a bit to get used to. You do get sights later on so I see where they are coming from. But adding standard sights and creating bullet drop will stop me from destroying enemies from far away. Spread things out! I am in a big boat! With too much fuel/batteries to use, adding days where there is 0 wind. Making me rely on fuel/battery, would add to immersion! Especially going the distance! Or in storms that last a good while! Or not at all doe days on end! Distances aren`t very long. 10KM or so is fine for most, but its too quick! Some may get bored. I however will not. I spent 8 hours in StormWorks Build and Rescue filling up a tanker, and traveled that full 200KM to the right. Another 8 hours. I sunk nearly 500 hours into that game. I LOVE going the distance. I LOVE boats. This game would be perfect for it! I didn`t think i would get to the Lazarus so fast. There are gripes, and I`m sure others mentioned this. The game needs work, proper optimization. It has HORRIBLE ghosting, it relies too much on deep learning, AI whatever, and the engine or graphics card cant keep up. I`m rocking a 5080, it should be able to render this game natively on its own with no AI frame generation. And it does, 70 or so FPS on high isn`t too shabby with AI turned off. Being on ultra drops me to about 48FPS though. Not so hot. You ABSOLTLEY will need 11GB GPU minimum, and 32gb of system ram to play the game smoothly. It is rather demanding. On my high, native preset it uses about 14.5-15.8GB of ram, and 7.9-8.2GB for the GPU depending on what you are doing. If you don`t have that, Low to medium settings will be the best bet. The game will warn you about this. Hopefully with optimization they can lower that number so everyone can play the game. There may be things I missed, or haven`t even noticed. But other than these little gripes, that will likely be fixed in the future, and receive plenty of updates. It is early access, and still has a road to go down. I cant wait to see where it drifts! I fully support the Devs with this one. I do recommend playing the game. Give it a shot, It is really fun!
I love the story.
Super fun game lots of lore for something in early access, definetly worth the money. 10/10 would recommend.
What a story, what a boat ... what a concept, congrats to the dev team !
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I kind of adore this game, but that might be just because it feels like it was made for me. Base building, resource harvesting, scaling enemy difficulty, automation, a compelling storyline, rewarding progression...yeah I'm a fan. Even in early access, this game is worth it.
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Engagement
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Audience
Languages: English*, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
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