Free Astro Bot DLC Arrives This Autumn With Speedrun Levels and 10 New Bots To Rescue

The best platformer on PlayStation gets even better with added speedrun fun

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Astro Bot is proving very popular with PlayStation Fanatics all around the world. The colourful, wonderful and joyous platformer from Team Asobi has been hitting the top of the UK charts recently. And hitting players right in the heart with the lovable Astro jumping around and saving his bot buddies.

During last night’s State of Play, Team Asobi announced that Astro Bot, which was released on September 6th would be getting some free DLC. The best things in life are always free.

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The Astro Bot DLC will be a free add-on for the game. It will feature five new speedrun levels. You can get a glimpse of some of the new levels in the trailer above. Alongside the new speedrun, levels will be 10 new special bots to rescue, the bots are obtained by beating cheeky birds racing against Astro.

The special bots will be Helldrivers by the sound of it and Eve from Stellar Blade will also be showing up in bot form as well. Who are the other gaming characters immortalised in bot form? We’ll need to wait and see.

There will also be online leaderboards so you can compete against the community or with your PlayStation pals.

The PlayStation Blog post about the free Astro Bot DLC says “starting this fall.” So it sounds like the speedrun and levels and new special bots will be released periodically. Much like what Team Asobi did with the special bots in Astro’s Playroom in the lead-up to Astro Bot’s launch.