No Man's Sky players have been spoiled over the past several years as Hello Games continues to release patch after patch for the open-universe survival game. In 2022 alone, No Man's Sky has received the Sentinel, Exobiology Expedition, Outlaws, and The Blighted Expedition updates. Hello Games isn't slowing down, either. A new update for No Man's Sky has arrived with the game's seventh Expedition, Leviathan. As has become routine, Hello Games has made the new update available immediately to all No Man's Sky players.
Hello Games has put together a trailer to introduce the new Expedition to No Man's Sky players. The trailer starts with one of the Leviathan update's new features, a space whale, appearing in the sky. This leads the player deeper into space, eventually leading them into a facility filled with alien egg sacks. These eggs hatch, releasing aggressive little aliens that spit toxic green goo. It's at this point where the player dies. But that's just the start of the Leviathan Expedition.
As the remainder of the trailer shows, the Leviathan Expedition actually takes place in a time loop. Players are stuck in this loop, repeating the events of the Leviathan Expedition until they're able to complete its story successfully. Death appears to restart players at the point where they began the Expedition. It's something new and exciting that No Man's Sky players haven't seen before.
In a press release issued alongside the new trailer and update, Hello Games describes the Leviathan Expedition in an enticing way. It calls the Expedition a roguelike experience, as every death will reload No Man's Sky's procedural generation. And while every individual player will have the ability to complete the Expedition on their own, there's also a global goal. As progress is made in this global goal, players will have access to more powerful upgrades as they progress through the loop.
Progressing through the Leviathan Expedition will reward No Man's Sky players with some exciting and rare loot. Items like an Organic Frigate, a Temporal Starship Trail, and a Whalestalker Cloak can be earned along the way. The big reward at the end is a living frigate that players can fly, like they're the protagonist of a new season of Farscape.
The Leviathan update for No Man's Sky is available for players to download across all supported platforms. Play the new Leviathan Expedition, earn exciting new rewards, complete a compelling new story, and check out some rad space whales along the way. And, as always, look forward to more content from Hello Games sooner than expected.
No Man's Sky is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, with a Switch release to follow soon.