The newest free update to No Man's Sky, called The Cursed, takes players to a spookier part of the galaxy where players will fight against foes both real and imaginary. The update comes right in time for Halloween and the spooky season, and will only be active for two weeks. The update takes the game to horrors of a more psychological and metaphysical nature, creating a deeply unsettling atmosphere.
Expedition Sixteen: The Cursed adds a whole new expedition to the game that focuses on a mysterious new location. The update, detailed on the No Man's Sky website and shared by HelloGamesTube on YouTube, will have travelers content with "visions and voices from another dimension." Players will need to decide who and what to trust as they uncover the story of The Cursed, an area located on the boundary between realities. This new location is populated by strange drifting creatures who are mostly harmless but sometimes attack players and cause time to "begin to behave in non-linear ways."
The cryptic YouTube video shows several of the new enemies that players will encounter in this strange land, which include time- and reality-altering anomalies and Lovecraftian horrors. Players will be urged forward...