Disney Dreamlight Valley kicks off Season of Scares
Disney Dreamlight Valley’s free Season of Scares update is live, bringing Oogie Boogie, a six-week Halloween questline and the ghostly pup Zero to the Valley.
The free Season of Scares update is now live in Disney Dreamlight Valley, and it has brought a Halloween problem with it. Oogie Boogie, the sackcloth trickster from Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, has installed himself in the Valley for a six-week run of games, quests and rewards.
A mirror in Scrooge’s store
The event begins with a mysterious mirror in Scrooge McDuck’s Store. Stepping through it takes players into a strange version of the shop, where Oogie Boogie has laid out a challenge that opens a new round every week. The game’s own guidance is that you should start his first quest before 4 November; after that point the full questline closes, although anyone who has begun it can finish the remaining weeks at their own pace.
Zero, and a Halloween Star Path
The rewards run from weekly unlocks to Jack Skellington’s ghostly pup Zero and, eventually, Oogie Boogie himself. Alongside the event, the Haunting Elegance Star Path adds costumes, darkly whimsical furniture and Halloween decorations, and the update also carries new decorating tools, a way to share Decoration Preset codes, an Event Board and improvements to the Floating Islands.
What Apple Arcade players miss
There are platform caveats worth knowing before you clear an evening. The Apple Arcade edition does not include access to the Premium Shop, its Haunting Elegance Star Path is delayed until later in October, and both the Event Board and the Astronomer’s Journey Star Path will only appear in a later update on that version. Seasonal Moonstone packs are available for a limited time on the other platforms.
Our opinion
Seasonal events are the cheapest thing a live-service game can make and the easiest to get wrong, and the shape here is the sensible one. Six weeks with a weekly drip gives a cosy game the thing it usually lacks, which is a reason to log in on a specific Tuesday, and the 4 November start-by date is a rare piece of plain dealing with players who drift. The Apple Arcade carve-outs are the sour note. Telling one platform’s players that the Star Path arrives later, and that the Event Board is not coming at all this cycle, is exactly the sort of second-class treatment that makes a subscription feel like a downgrade rather than a shortcut.