{"id":604505,"date":"2026-03-21T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-finally-gets-its-space-whales-in-new-time-looping-expedition"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:53:52","slug":"no-mans-sky-finally-gets-its-space-whales-in-new-time-looping-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/no-mans-sky-finally-gets-its-space-whales-in-new-time-looping-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky finally gets its space whales in new time-looping expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/no-mans-sky-finally-gets-its-space-whales-in-new-time-looping-expedition.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Barely a month has gone by since the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-skys-new-outlaws-update-lets-you-become-a-fearsome-space-pirate\">No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s major Outlaws update<\/a>, which gave intergalactic explorers the opportunity to live out their pirate fantasies, but already Hello Games is back &#8211; this time with a brand-new expedition that finally answers fan pleas to add space whales to the exploratory sim.<\/p>\n<p>Expeditions, if you&#8217;re unfamiliar, are effectively No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s stab at live-service-style seasonal content, serving up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-skys-latest-expedition-is-a-great-re-introduction-to-five-years-of-updates\">limited-time, curated experiences<\/a> that condense and reshuffle its various systems into a series of progression-based milestone challenges. And today&#8217;s addition, titled Leviathan, is a very different proposition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomanssky.com\/2022\/04\/expedition-six-the-blighted\/\">April&#8217;s The Blighted<\/a>, and sounds considerably more ambitious &#8211; and significantly weirder &#8211; than any of the expeditions we&#8217;ve seen before. <\/p>\n<p>That said, Leviathan begins in much the same way as previous expeditions, dropping all players into one location. However, what follows is something closer to a roguelike experience, stripping explorers of their progress whenever they die. The narrative twist, though, is that players are actually stuck in a mysterious time loop, and the entire community will need to work together to find a way to break free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-finally-gets-its-space-whales-in-new-time-looping-expedition\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-finally-gets-its-space-whales-in-new-time-looping-expedition\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a month has gone by since the arrival of No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s major Outlaws update, which gave intergalactic explorers the opportunity to live out their pirate fantasies, but already Hello Games is back &#8211; this time with a brand-new expedition that finally answers fan pleas to add space whales to the exploratory sim. Expeditions, if you&#8217;re unfamiliar, are effectively No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s stab at live-service-style seasonal content, serving up limited-time, curated experiences that condense and reshuffle its various systems into a series of progression-based milestone challenges. And today&#8217;s addition, titled Leviathan, is a very different proposition to April&#8217;s The Blighted, and sounds considerably more ambitious &#8211; and significantly weirder &#8211; than any of the expeditions we&#8217;ve seen before. 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