ASTRO BOT free DLC coming in 2024, adds speedruns and new VIP bots

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Team ASOBI will release free downloadable content for ASTRO BOT in 2024, which will add speedruns and new VIP bots, game director Nicolas Doucet told Quest Daily in a video interview.

“Yes, so we have free [downloadable content]—so it’s going to be free,” Doucet said. “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. 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.”

Asked if the speedrun downloadable content will include leaderboards, Doucet confirmed with a simple, “Yes.”

Speaking of VIP bots, the credits for ASTRO BOT mention trademarks for several properties that did not appear as VIP bots in the game, including:

ASTRO BOT is available now for PlayStation 5.