The Last Caretaker
Worth it · Action · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99.
- Length
- 45.9h
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 or equivalent, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $27.99. That was March 2026. It has been discounted 6 times in the 11 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games closest to it, Sledding Game ($7.99, scores 67) and StarRupture ($19.99, scores 56) both come in lower.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 446 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2,251 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 12:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Last Caretaker scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1783560/the-last-caretakerReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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