Valheim Meets Starfield in Steam’s Latest Free Offering

Even though it’s only been seven months since the game was first announced, this upcoming survival-crafting game is already playable on Steam ahead of its official release next month. The sound you’re hearing right now is all of the Elder Scrolls VI fans shaking their heads in disbelief.

In perhaps one of the most baffling and unheard of moves in video game development history, one publisher opted to reveal their game mere months before its official release date.

Did you guys know that they were allowed to do that? Yeah, I had no idea either. I thought there was some kind of law that necessitated showing off a teaser trailer seven years before the game is supposed to come out.

Ok, funny and hilarious jokes aside, I remember laying my eyes on the first trailer for the Valheim-meets-Starfield survival crafter The Last Caretaker back in February, and being extremely impressed with what a developer as small as Channel37 Ltd had already pulled off.

And now, suddenly, seven months have flown by, and it’s available to try out for free on Steam as we speak.

In The Last Caretaker, you play as a "reawakened machine" with a simple mission: launch a bunch of humans into outer space, and try not to kill them all in the process.

In this world, humanity has managed to absolutely destroy any and all habitable parts of the earth. Due to rising sea levels, humans have been forced to live on oil-rig-looking platforms, just so that they have solid ground to place their feet on.

However, you might not end up running into any real humans during the course of your time in The Last Caretaker, because it seems that things have gotten so bad that they’ve been relegated to… whatever the hell a “human seed” is. What a vaguely horrifying combination of words.

Throughout your playthrough, you’ll have to defend your human seeds against a series of threats, both biological and synthetic in nature, so that you can successfully load them into pods and send them to planets where they can thrive.

If this all sounds like good fun to you, then you’ll be happy to know that the free demo for the game just went live on Steam. Unfortunately, there are no reviews for it as of yet, so you’ll have to go into your taster session blind.

If you do like what you try, then you’ll be happy to know that the full game will be available in early access in a matter of weeks, on November 6.

Here’s hoping that this one lands safely upon arrival too.