6 Most Terrifying Enemies in No Man's Sky | Abyssal Horrors and More!

The experience that made the most scared was the sea king skull, for fun i thought "lol imagine it's bigger than my cargo"
it was

i'm a new player (got the game at christmas and became obsessed) so i had my first encounter with a derelict freighter recently.

it was that moment when i realized NMS was a horror game in disguise.

A little late to the party, but as a practiced Larval Egg collector, I have on two occasions lost in permadeath (my first two, actually) to what can only be described as a one-two-three punch. I was not fast enough or unlucky enough to dodge INTO the blow, in reacting to the first hit, stunning me, and the next two bites connected, ending my early attempts at collection. Never on Perma without at least a couple extra pips of health to be sure.

The second, not related, was to ram full speed in a Pilgrim into dissonance drillers at full health only to find this instakills. Incidentally, Pilgrim tyres are deadly to the little horrors.

Lol I didn't know the Jellies were horrors. I saw them once in the ocean and I was just like "awwww. Pretty can I scan them? No? Okay....bye jellies!"

The planets that are filled with those giant mechanical globe heads has the creepiest bgm. I often glance around while mining half expecting one of them to turn and thunder roll at me for looting their resources. If they ever patched that in without warning I would probably throw my controller in terror lol.

I hate these biological horrors

In my 50-ish hours in NMS the deadliest enemy for me was my exocraft's gun! Insta suicide in 1 bad shot and like no damage to actual enemies. Even My pistol is better at shooting enemies! The only reason I died in this game at all...

And here I thought NMS was purely a relaxing game, at least until I was attacked by a giant rock crab. 🤷🏾‍♂️ Intense I tell you.

The first time I encountered the Screaming Abyssal Horror I literally screamed out loud. I'm audio sensitive and was wearing headphones, I've never once been scared like that in a video game before. They still terrify me lol.

Just found that fish yesterday and almost pissed myself when it popped out behind me and started screaming.

The abyssal horror is easily the most terrifying for me so far... the sound it makes when it grabs you with its telekinesis is disturbing

Thank you for showing me this game is not worth my time there is not a single enemy that would pump my blood a tiny bit 😂

New subscriber! Great info here, I’ve encountered most of these and l had to learn and adapt

my good sir i am terribly sorry to ruin your day forever: the most dangerous jellyfish in the world is the australian box jelly chironex fleckeri (and apparently box jellys in general) do not only posses quite well developed eyes but are known to occasionaly hunt down pray.

how can you not mention the sentinel walker. That thing is horrifying

abyssal horror, found one, 2 days ago

Remember when I ran into an asteroid larva it got me by surprise I freaked out and shot at it and left

Some day i was flying on a desert planet close to surface. Very close. I didnt knew about the new added worms that are as large as freighter and so one appeared. It scared the shit out of me. Because I was like "what the fuck this isnt supposed to happen"

I was doing a hardcore permadeath run just yesterday, was doing a mission involving feeding creatures on a planet when i had apparently hit a large herbivore when melee boosting, one of its friends was nearby and swiftly attacked, my sheild popped and i was at 1 health left with just one attack. That was the most i ever panicked. It's not even the predators you have to worry about because they let you know they're hostile, the real ones you gotta watch out for is pissing off the herbivores that will fight back.

I've just landed on a planet and see gigantic worm swim over the terrain

I went into a derelict freighter this morning and ended up shooting all of the swarm nests.
I didn’t realize you could just avoid them… 🫣

So I just ran into the space worm with the big eye. Freaked me out. Glad I didn't shoot it🤣🤣

There are no enemies in NMS

being new i havnt seen most of these on list, butr for me most scary was a number 1 encounter. just a random wild predator. What made it scary was 2 factrors, 1 there was like 20 or 30 of em around me, and 2 they were teeny tiny little dino looking things, and i mean they were tiny, size of small rocks, and with tall grass everywhere it was almost impossible to fight em i had to run.

I was mining rocks and one for up and ran away

It wasn’t a predator, but this huge thing popped out of the ground screaming. I had a few heart attacks

I have some sort of asrrophobia 😅can't play games where you have to dive deep into the ocean. Anyway, a friend of mine told me that you can only play no man's sky on VR. I never watched any gameplay videos nor that it's not only vr. I just blindly ran straight into it with VR. Damn

Dude what mods are you using i need to know

i swear the only reason people struggle with combat in this game is because you're all using controllers 😅using a neutron with a couple upgrades easily one or two shots most enemies and using a keyboard and mouse with a bit of melee-boosting experience makes even level 5 sentinel encounters on high activity planets a cakewalk. Derelicts were scary the first time because i was actually expecting a challenge with the atmosphere it set, but after doing the whole thing and finding nothing but a few docile jellyfish, all tension was completely dispersed from then on. and i didn't even know the underwater abyssal horrors *had* an attack until i played on a save with pathetic damage and couldn't just kill them with one boltcaster burst

Used to be terrified of Abyssal Horrors. But I assembled a seriously jacked-up Pulse Spitter on one of my Multitools, for Derelict Freighter missions. I found that it also works beautifully for hosing down AHs at range. Now, I hunt them. :)

Recently visited a planted and the predators WERE ACTUAL DINOSAURS I COULDNT LEAVE THST PLACE ANY FASTER

My first encounter wast abyssal horror... Imagine still newbie and do not have any weapon beside mining laser... This creature is terrifyng.. Damn it, i thought what is that? The scanner make The egg is red.. my instinc tell to avoid it, And this egg will similiar to Xenopmorph egg.. When I try to harvest it.. Damn it, the swarmp biology horror is so F...

I have thalassophobia so you can imagine how i felt with the anglerfish... it took me quite a bit of time to gather courage enough just to jump into the water... i alt+f4 the sh*t out of there, and didn't return to ANY mass of water in a veeeery loong time....

I know i'm late to the video, just returned recently to NMS and found your channel. Good work my man!!

The most terrifying predators for me are the burrowing ones. Hardest to hit and most likely to launch you

No Man's Sky is a game that i really loved to play, because i love everything about space and universe, unfortunately sounds stupid that im also terrified of it, so playing this game for me is a rollercoaster of emotions 😊

My first encounter with the titan worms was coming out of a portal on a new save after several years of not playing....i may or may not have been immediately divebombed by one on exiting the portal on the other side

everything else aside, gotta agree with you on monkeys. Damn things are terrifying. Especially chimpanzees, which are known for attacking mercilessly and causing grievous, disfiguring injuries. Can't think of many animals I wouldn't rather run into, even apex predators like wolves would be more trustworthy than a chimp.

Came across one of those fat lampreys yesterday for the first time. Swimming up to harvest the glowing things I said to myself, "wow this looks just like the light bait lampreys use." Then it jumped out and I screamed. Good times.

It'd be cool to see some Lovecraftian figures and encounters in No Man's Sky. Imagine a narrative or mission where you eventually discover that what you encountered is completely out of your control, and only reveals how small you are compared to the universe around you.

did you say flavours?

"lactose" lmaaaaooooooo

Encountered the swarm for the first time today. Not fun.

I was exploring a derelict freighter for the first time and saw my first abyssal horror.

I was like:
"ooo whats this"
checks name with scanner
"Suddenly, I decided to leave."

Just got off playing after escaping an infested planet. First ever one, landed my ship right next to whatever causes the hungry tentacles to come out. Nearly had a heart attack

THE WHIRLING BONE THINGIES omg... I almost soiled my pants when i first saw them... they were red and white... whirled like razors moving underground.... dude those zergling lookalikes were like walk in the park next to them

I remember the first time I got jumpscared by that stupid angler fish.
Not only did I not know about the existence of these things (even tho I'm cautious underwater in games because of my thalassophobia), it also happened inside an underwater cave with not much space around. So you can imagine my panic when seeing something huge with a mouth full of teeth swimming at me while making that sound inside a tight space lmao

I saw this procedurally generated creature that was like this bipedal dinosaur that flew on tiny butterfly like wings a few feet above the ground. It was hilarious

All my homies be traveling in space until we encounter a cosmic horror 💯