Team Asobi‘s Nicolas Doucet has revealed that the planned Astro Bot DLC will include new VIP bots in addition to the previously confirmed speed run stages.
Speaking during an interview with Quest Dailey, Doucet revealed that the DLC will be released free of charge, and will launch at some point this year.
Yes, so we have free [downloadable content]—so it’s going to be free. It’s going to come this year. It will be smaller. You know it’s not going to be like, you know, a huge, huge amount, but it will be focusing on one of the features that people enjoyed in ASTRO’s PLAYROOM—that was the speedruns. You know, there were some speedruns, and the levels were quite short, but it was the fact that you could replay and keep shaving time off… with some new VIP bots to rescue, so some characters we didn’t include yet will appear.
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But yeah, that’s going to come, and that’s going to focus really on kind-of challenging levels. But if we can, we’d like to also insert something a bit toy-feeling, something that could be really like for any player. But we’re not too sure about that one. But the challenging stuff is definitely coming.
Furthermore, when quizzed if the speed run stages would feature leaderboards, he simply replied, “Yes.’
Astro Bot is now available for the PS5, and while we’re on the subject of DLC, the game’s credits references a few IPs that didn’t make the final cut, suggesting they may be included as post-launch content. Be sure to read our full Astro Bot review here.
[Source – Gematsu]