Astro Bot’s speedrunning DLC starts rolling out tomorrow

PlayStation has taken a novel approach to its rollout of Astro Bot’s downloadable content. Instead of giving players a formal release date, choosing on several occasions to just say Soon™, the developers at Team Asobi have simply decided to stealth launch the levels starting… tomorrow, October 17th. The DLC will feature five new challenge levels with 10 new bots to rescue. Though we’ve already seen the Stellar Blade bot and the Helldivers bot, Team Asobi is keeping the rest under wraps in order to preserve the little bolt of joy you get when you recognize one.

Interestingly, instead of releasing all the levels at the same time, Team Asobi’s going for yet another novel approach, launching individual levels on a weekly basis until all five are out on November 14th. Though it’s frustrating to have the best game on the PS5 parceled out like this, it feels like Team Asobi has made the right choice. Just like my friend’s golden retriever at dinner time, I have to be slow fed new Astro Bot otherwise I’d gobble everything up in one bite then complain that there’s no more fun to be had… or develop a concerning case of bloat.