New Gameplay of The Last Caretaker Premieres at IGN Live, Featuring Environments, Enemies, and More

Channel37’s Summer of Caretaking continues at IGN Live, where a third trailer for its highly anticipated seafaring survival action-adventure game, The Last Caretaker, premiered!

For the first time, Channel37 shares a fresh glimpse into some of The Last Caretaker’s forgotten interiors and haunting landscapes where echoes of humanity’s past and monuments to dreams never realized remain. The IGN Live trailer showcases just a few of the environments and landmarks you’ll discover as you sail across this ocean that claims all but memories. This may be a journey that you’ll take alone, but this world refuses to stay silent. It will pull you closer to the truth — the answer to what it will take to bring humanity back from the brink of extinction…

Keep it locked to The Last Caretaker’s YouTube channel for all that the Summer of Caretaking has to offer — including additional trailers from the PC Gaming Show and The MIX.

Watch The Last Caretaker’s IGN Live trailer here:
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The world has changed. An endless ocean stretches in every direction, its surface dotted by the crumbling ruins of those who stayed behind. Machines hum quietly, still performing forgotten tasks, while navigation beacons flicker with weak signals from the past. There, the repurposed and reshaped technology drifts silently, watching and waiting.

Suddenly, after centuries of silence, your systems flicker to life. As the Last Caretaker, your mission remains unchanged: navigate this vast ocean, recover lost knowledge, awaken dormant systems, and safeguard humanity’s final hope — human seeds resting deep within the Seed Vaults carrying memories and dreams as they wait patiently for their chance at rebirth among the stars. You are not alone. Some machines whisper forgotten protocols, watching your every step. Fulfill your sacred directive and uncover your meaning.

Key Features of The Last Caretaker:

Explore the Endless Ocean — Sail across a vast open-world ocean filled with towering ruins, forgotten structures, and hidden secrets waiting to be uncovered.
Modular Crafting & Recycling — Break down abandoned machines and salvage materials to craft, repair, and restore. Decide what’s worth keeping and what to melt down—every scrap is a potential lifeline.
Build & Upgrade — Expand and restore your ship, outposts, and key locations. Rebuild ancient technology to bring lost infrastructure back to life.
Enemies Lurking in the Dark — Battle rogue machines, flying sentries, swarming drones, and biomechanical threats. Some wait in cocoons, dormant until disturbed. Learn their behaviors, choose your battles, and fight to survive.
The Last Human Seeds — You are their only hope. Monitor and optimize the growth of humanity’s final survivors, balancing nutrients and enriching them with memories.

The Last Caretaker will be released in Early Access for Windows PC on Steam and the Epic Games Store this fall. A console release will occur at a later date. Future caretakers can wishlist the game now.

Subscribe to Channel37’s YouTube and Twitch channels to watch its weekly developer livestream series, which showcases more about the world and gameplay mechanics of The Last Caretaker.

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