Channel37’s ocean-world game The Last Caretaker has earned Very Positive player sentiment and continues to grow through Early Access updates.
Channel37 released a new trailer and updated Steam demo for The Last Caretaker, following the game’s win as Finnish Game of the Year 2025 at this year’s Finnish Game Awards. The new trailer highlights the current state of The Last Caretaker in Early Access, including content from its latest major update, new world areas, expanded traversal, new tools, performance improvements, and the game’s ongoing mission: one machine trying to save humanity across a vast ocean world.
Incoming directive — watch the new trailer here: https://youtu.be/ZubNFzgE7ak
Great success and still in Early Access
Since entering Early Access, The Last Caretaker has earned Very Positive user sentiment, and seen players spend an average of more than 41 hours in-game. The game has also built strong creator traction, with more than 27 million views across over 6,900 YouTube videos, 20 million views across over 950 TikTok videos, and over 1.2 million hours watched across over 32,000 hours streamed on Twitch.
Channel37 has now shipped five major updates, including the extra Update 3.5: Shadow Drop, plus multiple hotfixes and stability improvements. The team continues to add new content, improve performance, fix player-reported issues, and refine the game through Early Access.
“We are still in Early Access, so the work is not theoretical. Players tell us where the game bends, where it breaks, and where it becomes something more interesting than we planned,” said Antti Ilvessuo, Co-Founder of Channel37. “Winning Finnish Game of the Year feels good, of course. But the real point is that people are playing for a long time, finding things, breaking things, reporting things, and coming back. That is what lets us keep improving the game.”
The latest major update expands the game with the Salvage Gyro, a new light utility aircraft, Gyro Service Towers, Seed Vault Two, Eden Cradle, Project Canticle, HoloMemory, decoy tools, drone support, hook cables, new world areas, weather and atmosphere improvements, and a broad technical pass across performance, stability, UI, localization, audio, physics, vehicles, saves, and world streaming.
Updated demo available now
An updated demo is also available now, bringing the first playable experience closer to the current state of the full game. The demo includes recent gameplay tuning, optimization improvements, and a clearer introduction to the game’s survival, crafting, resource, and exploration systems.
In The Last Caretaker, players awaken as the last active Caretaker, a machine built for one directive: save humanity. Across a vast ocean world, players recover human seeds, recycle the remains of the old world, restore lost systems, and launch the next generation into orbit. Every resource matters. Every launch gives humanity one more chance.
The Last Caretaker is available now in Early Access on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The updated demo is available now on Steam.
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About Channel37
Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2021, Channel37 is an antique game studio with decades of games industry experience making bold experiences that connect players, beginning with The Last Caretaker, which was released into Early Access in November 2025. The ten-person studio was co-founded by Miika Aulio, Vesa Halonen, Antti Ilvessuo, and Sami Saarinen. More information available here: www.channel37.co.