The Last Caretaker Delivers on Its Roadmap with Update 01: Last Humans

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 will be on sale at 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.

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 below 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.

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.

Press contact: press@channel37.co

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.