The second chapter of the Little Nightmares III pass landed on 30 September. Called The Shores, it puts Low and Alone back together and sends them through the mirror towards a distant lighthouse, across flooded streets and sewers. Supermassive Games drops a new creature into the mix, the Leech Monster, which farms leeches and sets them on anyone who wanders too close. The chapter closes out the Secrets of the Spiral pass, billed as a two-parter since the game came out.
At a glance
The Shores is out from 30 September, sold on its own or bundled in the Secrets of the Spiral pass at £12.99.
Low and Alone cross the mirror without Dime and head for a lighthouse, through empty houses, flooded streets and sewers.
The Leech Monster is the chapter’s new threat: it farms leeches that attack anyone straying too near.
Low and Alone head back through the mirror
The Little Nightmares III chapter picks up where the first one left off. Reunited, Low and Alone step through the mirror, and this time Dime isn’t with them, which puts the pair back on their own as in the base game. Their goal comes down to a light in the distance, a lighthouse, which they reach by crossing abandoned houses and streets where the water keeps rising.
As so often in this series, the set design carries the whole mood on its own. Sewers and their open pipes take over from the first chapter’s theatre corridors, complete with valves that give way, spinning propellers and rooms fully underwater. Water becomes the route and the hazard at the same time, which changes how you read each room.
The hazards on the list hint at the pacing the studio is after. Valves giving way, spinning propellers and fully submerged rooms make for obstacles you read before you move, which has been the signature of Little Nightmares III since launch. Nothing so far suggests the chapter introduces a brand new mechanic: it reads more as fresh ground for the ones the game already has.
Little Nightmares III sets its leeches loose in the sewers
The chapter’s creature goes by the Leech Monster, and its logic is easy enough to grasp. It farms leeches, and those leeches go after anyone who strays too close to its patch. The danger comes as much from what it has spread around as from the thing itself, so the water needs watching at all times.
That idea carries on what Little Nightmares III has done since the first game: an enormous threat, a tiny child, and no way to fight back. On Xbox, the chapter adds six achievements, which gives a rough sense of its length, in keeping with the short format of earlier chapters. Anyone after more in this vein has plenty to pick from among indie releases, with Dust till Dawn blending cleaning work and Japanese horror.
How to get hold of the chapter
Two routes lead to the new Little Nightmares III chapter. The chapter can be bought on its own, or it already comes with the Secrets of the Spiral pass listed at £12.99 on Steam. The first chapter, The Backstage, arrived on 11 June 2026 and sold separately at £6.99.
There’s a sum worth doing for anyone who has bought nothing yet. Both chapters purchased separately come to more than the full pass, so the pass is the sensible pick if you fancy both. Players who only half-warmed to The Backstage can stick to this second one instead.
What this chapter means for what comes next
With The Shores, the Secrets of the Spiral pass reaches the end it was announced with, in two parts. Supermassive Games and Bandai Namco Entertainment have said nothing yet about their plans for the game, which launched in October 2025. No third chapter has been announced at this stage.
That leaves the two-player mode, the feature that set this third entry apart from its predecessors. Low and Alone can be played together in online co-op, and this waterlogged chapter makes good use of it by going back to two characters rather than the trio of the previous one. For more upcoming horror, Whispers in the Fog is making its way as a one-man project.
To keep track of what is coming next, check the release calendar.