Astro Bot simply acquired its newest free replace, including 5 extra ranges and new bot cameos to Workforce Asobi’s Sport of the 12 months-winning platformer.
Initially introduced throughout Sony’s June 2025 State of Play, the replace provides a brand new galaxy, the Vicious Void, for gamers to discover. 4 of the degrees are titled Twin-Frog Hassle, Suck It Up, Handhold Havoc, Excessive Inflation, with Workforce Asobi holding the identify of the fifth as a shock. The addition of the brand new ranges brings Astro Bot’s complete degree depend to over 90.
The developer teased in a blog post that finishing the brand new galaxy “would possibly result in one thing actually cool,” so gamers should dive in and see what surprises are in retailer.
It would not be an Astro Bot replace with out new Particular Bot cameo appearances, and now we all know just a few that gamers can uncover. One is the protagonist of Sucker Punch’s upcoming Ghost of Yotei (which is receiving a particular State of Play).
Two different cameos gamers have found are Cloud and Sephiroth from Sq.-Enix’s Remaining Fantasy 7, the previous of which can do his signature Omnislash when provoked. One other fan-favorite character, 2B from NieR: Automata, can be discovered. Gamers had lengthy puzzled why no Sq.-Enix, and extra particularly why no Remaining Fantasy characters, had been current in Astro Bot at launch, so it is good to see some lastly included.
Along with new ranges, Sony as a part of its June State of Play introduced a brand new limited-edition Astro Bot DualSense controller, one with a barely totally different expression from a earlier Astro Bot controller. That controller continues to be not out there for preorder, although Sony stated it can launch later this yr and that it will have extra info to share quickly.
Astro Bot acquired PlayStation 5 Professional help and new, tougher ranges again in February. Workforce Asobi’s platformer received quite a few Sport of the 12 months awards, together with at 2024’s The Sport Awards and the 2025 BAFTA Awards. GameSpot known as it one of many 10 greatest video games of 2024.