Astro Bot is the highest-rated standalone sport of 2024 to this point, in keeping with Metacritic.
On the time of writing, the sport at present holds a Metacritic rating of 94, based mostly on 100 critic opinions. This makes Astro Bot the 12 months’s highest-rated standalone sport.
It doesn’t higher Elden Ring‘s DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, nonetheless, which at present holds a 95 rating.
Beneath Astro Bot, fellow PlayStation 5 unique Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth holds a rating of 92 on the aggregation platform, adopted by Animal Properly at 91 and Balatro at 90.
VGC’s evaluate of Astro Bot known as it “One of the best 3D platformer of the last decade.”
“Relentlessly joyous, with a world-beating soundtrack to match, Astro Bot is a very great sport and the perfect platformer in a decade,” we wrote.
“Whereas it by no means coasts on nostalgia alone, the trouble Workforce Asobi has made to deal with PlayStation characters (and some previous buddies) with respect and love is great. Go away it to Workforce Asobi to lastly get Bloodborne characters in a local PS5 sport.”
The PS5 platformer will likely be launched this week, on Friday, September 6, after greater than three years of improvement.
Astro Bot’s DLC plan will embody new problem ranges and a speedrun mode, the developer confirmed to VGC.
VGC just lately obtained the possibility to go to the builders behind Astro Bot, Workforce Asobi, for an inside have a look at the event of the sport, and the historical past of the franchise.
