Sailing Across A Flooded Earth As The Last Caretaker Of Humanity Sounds Delightful

There can often be a romanticized mystique to games in which you're a solo watchman or explorer--games like Firewatch and Subnautica have always been compelling to me for that reason. The Last Caretaker seems to scratch a similar itch, having you take on the role of the last hope of humanity: a sentient machine. It's an intriguing premise for a sci-fi survival action-adventure, and one that's dripping with atmosphere and mystery. After seeing a 40-minute preview of The Last Caretaker, I'm hooked. I want to play more, if for no other reason than to figure out what's going on.The debut title for Finnish game studio Channel37, The Last Caretaker sees you play as the titular machine, who has awoken after centuries to find themselves in the room of a facility long devoid of power. As you explore, you find more machines like you, now powerless and frozen in place--some so old that they're falling apart like decomposing corpses. A voice tells you that you're the last of these caretakers and it's your responsibility to continue the mission of revitalizing humanity, who fled from a flooded Earth centuries ago to live in space stations. You can't make babies in space, so the caretakers must grow new humans and send them up to the stations to keep humankind going. You're given a ship and tasked with sailing the endless sea in search of the research stations and labs that will allow you to locate and grow the last embryos, as well as a means of fixing, fueling, and launching a rocket that will take the grown humans into space.You'll spend a lot of time out on the water, traveling from one station to another.How did the world end? No idea. Is humanity still alive in the massive space stations orbiting the Earth? Unknown. Are we truly the only caretaker bot still functioning, and why were we kept in sleep mode for so long while the other machines were evidently activated long ago? Who could say. These mysteries and more can be investigated while you're completing your tasks, and keeping a careful eye out for collectibles can uncover logs of humankind's last few years on Earth, and provide answers about your own origins.Continue Reading at GameSpot

May 29, 2025 - 19:40

Sailing Across A Flooded Earth As The Last Caretaker Of Humanity Sounds Delightful

There can often be a romanticized mystique to games in which you're a solo watchman or explorer--games like Firewatch and Subnautica have always been compelling to me for that reason. The Last Caretaker seems to scratch a similar itch, having you take on the role of the last hope of humanity: a sentient machine. It's an intriguing premise for a sci-fi survival action-adventure, and one that's dripping with atmosphere and mystery. After seeing a 40-minute preview of The Last Caretaker, I'm hooked. I want to play more, if for no other reason than to figure out what's going on.

The debut title for Finnish game studio Channel37, The Last Caretaker sees you play as the titular machine, who has awoken after centuries to find themselves in the room of a facility long devoid of power. As you explore, you find more machines like you, now powerless and frozen in place--some so old that they're falling apart like decomposing corpses. A voice tells you that you're the last of these caretakers and it's your responsibility to continue the mission of revitalizing humanity, who fled from a flooded Earth centuries ago to live in space stations. You can't make babies in space, so the caretakers must grow new humans and send them up to the stations to keep humankind going. You're given a ship and tasked with sailing the endless sea in search of the research stations and labs that will allow you to locate and grow the last embryos, as well as a means of fixing, fueling, and launching a rocket that will take the grown humans into space.

You'll spend a lot of time out on the water, traveling from one station to another.

How did the world end? No idea. Is humanity still alive in the massive space stations orbiting the Earth? Unknown. Are we truly the only caretaker bot still functioning, and why were we kept in sleep mode for so long while the other machines were evidently activated long ago? Who could say. These mysteries and more can be investigated while you're completing your tasks, and keeping a careful eye out for collectibles can uncover logs of humankind's last few years on Earth, and provide answers about your own origins.Continue Reading at GameSpot