Super Meat Boy is getting another go at ruining a perfectly pleasant evening. Team Meat has revealed Super Meat Boy Again+, a new version of its original 2010 platformer with fresh artwork, music and cutscenes, plus new levels and secrets for anyone who thought they had finally made peace with those saws.
The Steam listing confirms more than 300 levels and a soundtrack by the original composer, Danny B. The familiar rescue mission is back too: Meat Boy is trying to save Bandage Girl from Dr. Fetus, which remains a wonderfully ridiculous sentence to type with a straight face.
Team Meat is pitching Again+ around the way players remember the original, while adding things that experienced fans will not already know. New unlockables and undisclosed surprises are part of the plan, so having the old routes committed to muscle memory should not mean you have seen everything this version offers.
That is the interesting balance here. A remake can bring back a recognisable challenge, but the extra material gives returning players something beyond a prettier reminder of every wall they previously bounced off.
On Steam, the game is listed for Windows PC with single-player support, achievements, leaderboards and Steam Cloud. Its release date is still marked as to be announced, and there is no purchase price on the listing checked, so there is no launch day or UK price to put in the diary yet.
The reveal was spotted through Kotaku and checked against Team Meat’s official Steam page. For now, that page is the place to follow the announced PC version, with the release details still to come.