What a game!
I know it's a week late, but Happy Birthday Celeste! It's been lovely having you around this past year.
Celeste
A platformer aimed at speedrunners is also an adventure for the rest of us to savour.
Key events
25th January 2018
11th January 2018
TowerFall follow-up Celeste launches on PC and consoles later this month
23rd February 2017
Towerfall dev's upcoming platformer Celeste confirmed for Switch
Celeste DLC will miss game's anniversary, but will be free
The last strawberry.
Celeste creator Matt Thorson has provided an update on the popular indie platformer's upcoming DLC, due early this year.
New "very hard" levels are coming to Celeste in early 2019
"We never expected it to reach so many people."
New "very hard" levels are coming to platformer Celeste early next year.
Celeste headlines Xbox Games With Gold January titles
Lara Croft! Far Cry 2! More!
Microsoft has announced January's Xbox Live Games with Gold titles.
Nintendo looking to improve Switch game discoverability on eShop
As third-party digital sales exceed retail in North America for the first time.
Nintendo is looking to improve "discoverability and visibility" of Switch games on the eShop.
The fall.
At the end of the first day of her attempt to climb Celeste mountain, Madeline sits down and lights a campfire. Flames crackling and sparks rising against the darkness, it's a moment of respite in a world defined by relentless, delirious challenge. We've been here before, of course, but, even if the nod to Dark Souls isn't intentional, it's entirely appropriate. Celeste offers ingenious delights and gruelling punishment. To master it, even partially, is to feel like you're really achieving something.
Celeste
Publisher/developer: Matt Makes Games Inc.
TowerFall follow-up Celeste launches on PC and consoles later this month
Summit to look forward to.
Celeste, the latest game from TowerFall Ascension designer Matt Thorson, will release on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC, on January 25th.
Celeste is a narrative-driven, single-player adventure, described as a "super-tight, hand-crafted platformer". It casts you as protagonist Madeline, and sends you climbing upward, through 600 single-screen stages, toward the summit of the mysterious, titular mountain.
Celeste sports a gorgeous, lo-fi pixel art aesthetic, similar to its superb predecessor; but where TowerFall was a chaotic couch-based multiplayer affair, Celeste is a strictly single-player experience, mixing cerebral traversal challenges with the kind of tough, twitch-based platforming seen in the likes of Super Meat Boy.
FeatureI played five indie games on Switch and they were all good
But only one of them is exclusive.
The Nintendo Switch is finally out and while its launch library is slim and retail third-party support lacking, the handheld hybrid has a healthy bunch of independent games headed towards its library. At a GDC showcase I played five such titles, and they were all a lot of fun.
Towerfall dev's upcoming platformer Celeste confirmed for Switch
Along with PS4 and Steam.
Last summer Towerfall developer Matt Thorson announced a new single-player 2D platformer called Celeste and now that game has been confirmed for a Nintendo Switch release later this year.
It will also be coming to PS4 and Steam.
As you can see in the following trailer, Celeste is a series of single-screen challenges, much in the vein of Super Meat Boy. The game focuses on the titular character, a spunky redhead, trying to climb a mountain. It appears to be a haunted mountain too, by the looks of it, what with all the creepy ghosts and a gothic mansion that wouldn't look out of place in an early Castlevania adventure.
Towerfall dev's next game Celeste recalls Super Meat Boy
A precision platformer about climbing a mountain.
Towerfall developer Matt Thorson has announced his next game, a mountain climbing platformer called Celeste.