The very best fashionable platformer I’ve performed is getting an enormous 10-year anniversary replace, and the devs reckon there’s ‘no approach anybody 100percents it’

N++ launched as a PS4 unique in 2015 earlier than hitting PC a yr later. It is a platformer centered on fluid, momentum-based movement via fashionable one-screen ranges, and I am unable to advocate it sufficient: nothing else seems like this recreation. In my 92/100 assessment I practiced no restraint in any respect. “In some methods N++ seems like the top of the motion platformer,” I wrote, “like an exhaustive closing doc, a listing of its emotional highs and lows.”

I stand by these phrases principally as a result of, ten years later, I nonetheless play N++ sometimes. There’s nothing else that scratches the identical itch. And with over 4,000 ranges—not together with user-made ranges—It is so huge that I doubt I will ever end it. However that does not imply I am not excited for Ten++, which is a sizeable new replace including much more ranges I doubt I will ever end.

The free replace contains new ranges for the solo, multiplayer and race modes, in addition to six new colour schemes and “a number of assorted bugfixes”. And for the masochists amongst us, excellent news: “a few of these ranges are so difficult that it will take you ten extra years to beat them,” writes Metanet in its Steam announcement put up.

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In a extra detailed weblog Metanet explains how these new ranges got here to be, and the reason is easy: as a result of it is enjoyable to make them. “By 2018, we had been very burned out, having labored tirelessly on N++ over six years,” the put up reads. “We took just a little break—however the factor is, we all the time come again to creating ranges. These of you who’ve tried it might perceive; it’s simply enjoyable to do, and in some way there are all the time new concepts to be uncovered.”

The announcement trailer is embedded above, making the daring however probably truthful declare that, with the addition of the TEN++ content material, there’s “no approach anybody 100%’s” N++. Actually, at this level I’d warn you off making an attempt.

Nestled on the finish of the weblog is information that Metanet is engaged on “one thing we predict you may be very interested by”, ie, a brand new recreation. That is very thrilling certainly, however within the meantime, N++ is 75% off on Steam.