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The Last Caretaker

Channel37 Ltd · 2025-11-06

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 06, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

The Last Caretaker is an Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation game released in 2025, priced at $34.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 13032 reviews).

86%
positive of 14k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,938
twitch viewers (latest)
1938.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
84/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
211
Nexus mods (506k downloads)
60h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$34.99
steam price (US)
The Last Caretaker is a first-person survival crafting video game developed and published by Finnish studio Channel37. The game entered early access for Windows on 6 November 2025 through Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Trailer

The Last Caretaker trailer thumbnail

The Last Caretaker - Official Gameplay Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,226 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~153/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 279k–627k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 13,925 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $21.50 at AllYouPlay (2026-07-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 14 of 33 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.4k1.4k20252026Week of 2025-11-06: 1,386 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 345 negativeWeek of 2025-11-13: 806 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 169 negativeWeek of 2025-11-20: 734 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 90 negativeWeek of 2025-11-27: 668 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 112 negativeWeek of 2025-12-04: 320 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 75 negativeWeek of 2025-12-11: 437 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 452 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 101 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 482 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 108 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 498 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 113 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 340 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 84 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 246 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 180 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 37 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 154 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 218 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 32 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 215 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 37 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 42 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 107 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 150 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 247 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 228 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 53 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 159 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 127 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 95 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 189 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 46 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 190 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 137 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 87 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 121 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 233 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 170 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 47 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 136 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 120 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 93 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 100 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-20: 44 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 11 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$34.99$21.502025-11-062026-08-122025-11-06 — best price $31.492025-11-13 — best price $34.992025-11-14 — best price $34.992025-12-18 — best price $29.742026-01-05 — best price $34.992026-03-17 — best price $27.992026-03-19 — best price $27.992026-03-24 — best price $34.992026-03-26 — best price $34.992026-04-23 — best price $29.502026-04-24 — best price $34.992026-04-27 — best price $34.992026-05-05 — best price $31.892026-05-06 — best price $34.992026-05-12 — best price $34.992026-05-13 — best price $23.992026-05-14 — best price $22.892026-05-15 — best price $27.992026-05-18 — best price $27.992026-05-25 — best price $34.992026-05-26 — best price $34.992026-05-28 — best price $34.992026-06-09 — best price $34.992026-06-15 — best price $29.042026-06-24 — best price $30.752026-06-25 — best price $24.952026-06-26 — best price $22.862026-06-30 — best price $21.952026-07-01 — best price $21.502026-07-09 — best price $34.992026-07-10 — best price $29.042026-08-03 — best price $31.492026-08-12 — best price $34.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

4312026-06-28 — 4 pageviews2026-07-01 — 13 pageviews2026-07-04 — 7 pageviews2026-07-07 — 8 pageviews2026-07-10 — 10 pageviews2026-07-13 — 22 pageviews2026-07-16 — 16 pageviews2026-07-19 — 11 pageviews2026-07-22 — 12 pageviews2026-07-25 — 17 pageviews2026-07-28 — 7 pageviews2026-07-31 — 8 pageviews2026-08-03 — 22 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 15 pageviews2026-08-12 — 13 pageviews2026-08-15 — 9 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-21 — 13 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 10 pageviews2026-08-30 — 9 pageviews2026-09-02 — 23 pageviews2026-09-05 — 22 pageviews2026-09-08 — 18 pageviews2026-09-11 — 19 pageviews2026-09-14 — 23 pageviews2026-09-17 — 19 pageviews2026-09-20 — 21 pageviews2026-09-23 — 21 pageviews2026-09-26 — 15 pageviews2026-09-29 — 14 pageviews2026-10-02 — 19 pageviews2026-10-05 — 16 pageviews2026-10-08 — 23 pageviews2026-10-11 — 38 pageviews2026-10-12 — 37 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

15
achievements tracked
81.2%
earned "Apprentice caretaker"
32.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCustom Volume ControlsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSave AnytimeStereo Sound

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,6751%15

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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