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No Man's Sky gets free Forsaken update 49 days after the last one

Hello Games has released Forsaken, a free horror-themed No Man's Sky update with Haunting Mementos, a Larva Cannon, a minimal HUD mode and seamless interstellar travel.

By Hank Highscore, Platforms Correspondent ·

Edited by Dot Matrix, Editor-in-Chief

An astronaut in a worn spacesuit holds a glowing specimen jar beside a crashed starship hull on a dusty alien shore at dusk.
Forsaken adds collectible biological samples and a horror-tinged update to a space exploration game. Illustration generated by AI.

What changed: No Man’s Sky has a new free major update called Forsaken, and it arrives 49 days after the previous one. Hello Games confirmed it is available to everyone now.1

Forsaken leans into Halloween and horror. It adds Haunting Mementos, described as “bizarre, horrifying biological samples” that players can find in the spookiest regions of the universe. They turn up in hull wrecks, infested outposts, derelict freighters and dig sites, and can be traded for a range of unique corvette modules.1

Players who push too far toward the edges of space can also run into horrifying creatures coming from the outer rim of reality.1

The rest of the content list is long. A Larva Cannon, also bought from the new traders, joins the arsenal. There is a minimal HUD mode, a batch of new modules, cockpits and interiors, and a new weapon selection screen.1

The headline quality-of-life item is seamless interstellar travel. Aim at a nearby star system and warp to it without opening the galaxy map.1

The pace is the other story here. Another big free drop inside two months is a steady lap time for a game that has been running since 2016, and it keeps that cadence without charging a cent for the content.1

For anyone who already owns No Man’s Sky, the cost is nothing. Forsaken is a free update, so there is no new purchase to make and no season pass to buy. The patch is large enough that Destructoid pointed readers to the full patch notes rather than trying to list everything in one blurb.1

This story rests on a single outlet’s report of Hello Games’ announcement.

Our read: Forsaken is a good fit for the season, and the seamless warp feature looks like the part that will change how the game feels day to day, since it cuts out a trip to the galaxy map. The bigger signal is consistency: when a studio keeps shipping large free updates this close together, long-time owners have a reason to keep the game installed. Watch whether the next drop lands on a similar schedule.

Footnotes

  1. Destructoid, “No Man’s Sky just got yet another free major update, 49 days after the last”. Retrieved October 28, 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

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