GOTY Contender Astro Bot Is Getting A Festive Update Just In Time For The Holidays

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Game of the Year award contender is getting a free winter update this holiday season. Released on September 6, 2024, is a platformer featuring characters, locations, and concepts from PlayStation games throughout the ages. On its release, received rave reviews, with critics commenting positively on its delightful gameplay and ingenious innovations. It also happens to be one of six games nominated for Game of the Year at 2024's Game Awards, in such illustrious company as,,, and .

But lest you think you'd already experienced everything the year's best platformer has to offer, Sony announced that will be getting a free holiday update in a post on the official . The update is expected to be out tomorrow, December 12, 2024, at 6:00 PM PT (9:00 PM ET, 2:00 AM GMT). The update includes a single, winter holiday-themed level, Winter Wonder, featuring snow-covered rooftops, a gargantuan, ribbon-wrapped tree, and a jolly figure in red driving a flying boat pulled by a reindeer.

The Winter Wonder update focuses on a single level of the same name, which will be available to most players starting on Thursday. This is a post-game level, designed to be tackled only after finishing the main campaign — in fact, players can only access it after they've beaten the rest of . However, the update will remain free to all players, and is expected to remain available even after the holiday season is up, so don't worry about rushing through the rest of the game just to play it.

According to the and the image posted above, Winter Wonder will contain tons of festive surprises for players to discover. That includes special presents, as well as unique, presumably Christmas-themed, Astro Bots for the player to recruit and collect.

Astro Bot has sold over 1.5 million copies to date, but the really interesting news revealed is that 37% of buyers are new Sony users.

Unlike certain other levels, Winter Wonder is designed to be totally family friendly — specifically, that it won't be as hard as some