It’s time to dive back into the basement and cry our way through some monstrosities as The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth makes its way to PS4 and Xbox One on May 10th 2016, while the Wii U version will follow at a later date.
Afterbirth, the latest expansion to the twisted-roguelike-dungeon-crawler, will add over 100+ Hours to the game along with 1000-plus new rooms, 120 new items (taking the item count to above 500), 8 new bosses and 100+ new enemies to fight.
Developer Nicalis listed all the new features in a helpful bullet-point list:
Key Features:
– Over 100 hours of MORE gameplay
– Greed Mode – a whole new way to play, focused on risk/reward
– Expanded main game – a new final area with a new final boss
– Daily Runs – play a new official run, everyday!
– Online Leaderboards – compete for highscore/best time
– 10 totally new and awesome challenges!
– 1000+ new room designs
– MONSTROUSLY UPDATED WEAPON COMBO SYSTEM!
– 120 new items-not counting tons of new pickups, chests, pills, bombs and cards-taking the item count up beyond 500!
– Alternate soundtrack!
– New secret transformations!Uber secrets including:
– Lilith, mother of demons, a totally new playable character
– 4 new alternate chapters with new enemy types and visual themes
– Revised seed code combo system and new special seeds
– 100+ enemies, with new designs
– 8 new bossesand probably at least 5 other features we can’t remember due to all the crap that we threw into this little brown nugget!
Upon it’s release, The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth will cost $10.99, however it will need The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth in order to run.