The Last Caretaker is about to get another major update, this one dubbed ‘Curiosity Wakes’. It’s the game’s third major update since hitting early access in November 2025. This significant patch finally introduces humanity to the isolated game world, settling a fan theory once and for all.
This promises to be a hugely impactful change, but there’s plenty more lined up for Curiosity Wakes beyond that. Read on to learn what you need to know.
Curiosity Wakes Brings Human Interaction
For those not in the know, The Last Caretaker is a beautiful but haunting game that puts players in control of just that, a last Caretaker. This is a robot alone at the end of the world, bound on a mission to launch human embryos into space, to the final bastions of civilization residing in the stars.
It’s an open-world sandbox title set in a world that has been ravaged by rising tides, rendering it traversable exclusively by boat. The world is now populated by mysterious, aggressive creatures, a few remnants of humanity’s great buildings, and resources that you must use to build, craft, and ultimately, survive.
Channel37, the game’s developer, just unveiled Curiosity Wakes, the third major update to hit The Last Caretaker since it dropped late last year.
Here’s the one-liner:
Curiosity Wakes marks a pivotal shift in the game’s direction by shattering the silence of the heavens and unlocking the player’s ability to contact humanity’s distant orbital haven for the very first time.
Until now, fans of The Last Caretaker had theorized that nobody was left up there in the vast expanse, with humanity having long since died out just because of the natural passing of time. Effectively, players would be launching embryos to space, but nobody would be up there to receive them.
In Curiosity Wakes, we learn that’s not the case.
Players will take on new creatures (including Laser Sharks and Arch Angels), build more constructs than ever before, and customize their Caretaker with reckless abandon. Also, Channel37 is adding new locations, quests, and upgrades to the game, expanding it quite nicely.
Curiosity Wakes is available now, exclusively on PC.
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