The worlds of THE NEX
THE NEX has 14 raid worlds. Each has its own look, creatures and bosses, and most have their own survival mechanic and hazards. The list below comes straight from the game's world files, so it's always the live set.
Pick a world and play free🌃 The Sprawl
Neon city blocks. Glitches.
- Bosses: Glitch · Hunger, The Hollow King, The Null Mother.
💀 The Crypts: light
Torch-lit catacombs. The dead walk.
- Bosses: The Lich King, The Bone Tyrant, The Pale Matriarch.
❄ The Frost Abyss: warmth
Ice caverns. Slippery floors, blizzard fog.
- Bosses: The Winter Queen, The Hoarfrost King, The Endless Winter.
🌿 The Overgrowth: toxin
A drowned jungle city. Wade carefully.
- Bosses: The Root Mother, The Rotting King, The Verdant Maw.
🌋 The Foundry: heat
Lava forges. Mind the pools.
- Bosses: The Forgemaster, The Molten King, The Ashen Titan.
🖥️ The Mainframe: cpu load
A live server farm. Dodge the traffic surges.
- Bosses: The Root Daemon, The Fork Bomb, The Blue Screen.
🧸 Toybox: wind-up
A giant playroom gone wrong. Keep yourself wound up.
- Bosses: The Toy King, General Ticktock, The Grand Jack.
🏮 Neo-Shibuya: signal
Static map. Rooftops over a neon scramble crossing.
- Bosses: The Signal Oni, Shogun.exe, The Kitsune Queen.
🏙️ Skyreach: static
Raids across the floating islands of a sky city. Ride the updrafts, ground the static.
- Bosses: The Wind Warden, The Storm Regent, The Sky Tyrant.
🤠 Dust Ridge: sun
A Wild West town the simulation dreamed up. Short raids, fast draws.
- Bosses: Black Bart.exe, The Iron Horse, Mayor Malware.
🏰 Gravenhold: alarm
A castle under siege at dusk. Short raids, steel and fire.
- Bosses: The Usurper King, The Iron Dragon, The Witch Queen.
🕹️ Neon 1984: credits
An arcade city where the high score is everything. Short raids, pixel fire.
- Bosses: Boss Level, The Kong, Game Over.
🌼 Puffmeadow: friends
Raids across a sunny, cuddly meadow. Most critters are friendly: leave them be, or bring one low and befriend it.
- Bosses: Mama Mossbun, Queen Puffbloom, Old Lullawhale.
🐉 Millbrook: prayer
A sunny old-country village by the river, and a dragon in the ruins. Pray at the altars, mind the fire.
- Bosses: The Emberwing, The Goblin Warlord, The Dark Necromancer.
Random and the daily Spotlight
Choose Random at the Raid Gate to roll any world and earn a credit bonus per depth when you extract. One world each day is the Spotlight, which pays its own extraction bonus. Every world's material is banked when you extract and can be sold at Kade's shop.