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Free Astro Bot DLC coming in 2024

Speedruns and additional bots on the agenda

Marco Wutz

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Team ASOBI and Sony delivered one of the most well-regarded releases of 2024 with Astro Bot, their platformer celebrating all things PlayStation – and the festivities are far from over: Astro Bot game director Nicolas Doucet told the YouTube channel Quest Daily that the developer plans on releasing free DLC for the game later this year.

He said that it won’t be a “huge” update, “but it will be focusing on one of the features that people enjoyed in Astro’s Playroom – that was the speedruns.” This focus will express itself in the form of challenging levels as well as leaderboards, so that players can compare their times with other users.

In addition, Team ASOBI wants to add more VIP bots to the game, “so some characters we didn’t include yet will appear.”

The Astro Bot credits may contains some hints on which characters could appear in bot form, as they mention some IPs that currently don’t have any content in the game – namely Assassin’s Creed, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, Beyond Good & Evil, Rayman, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, and Worms.

Doucet added that the team wants to add something “a bit toy-feeling” for all players to enjoy, but noted that the idea may not make the cut for this particular update, since the primary focus is on the “challenging stuff” this time around.

GLHF’s Georgina Young wrote in her Astro Bot review that “Astro Bot has set a new benchmark that all 3D platformers now have to reach,” concurring with the warm critical reception the title is getting.

Make sure to check out all Astro Bot cameos and all lost galaxies in Astro Bot to complete your own collection of bots in the game.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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