The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is Launching on Halloween

Nicalis has announced the release date for The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

The hotly anticipated expansion for Edmund MicMillen’s twin-stick shooter is coming to Steam and “other platforms” on October 30th, just in time for Halloween.

The game comes with a massive amount of new content that reportedly adds over a hundred hours of content, which includes:

  • Greed Mode: a whole new game mode with a heavy focus on risk/reward that is a completely new way to play that features new endings and a final boss.
  • Expanded main game: a new final area has been added to the main game along with another new final boss and ending.
  • Daily Runs: compete for highscore / best time on the leader boards in these daily seeded runs.
  • Ten totally new and awesome challenges
  • 1000+ new rooms, as well as new tiny rooms, closets and giant arching hallways
  • Totally new playable character, Lilith, mother of demons
  • 120 new items, not counting tons of new pickups, chests, pills, bombs, cards etc. taking the item count up beyond 525
  • Four new alternate chapters with new chapter specific enemy types visual themes and surprises
  • New seed code combo page, as well as a butt ton of new seed codes that mod the game
  • Expanded soundtrack
  • New room types like, trap rooms, double treasure rooms and ultra rare closets
  • Greatly expanded and updated HUD system
  • Tons of new secret transformations
  • Eight new bosses
  • 25+ new enemies
  • Updated weapon combo system
  • Far too many new achievements
  • 20 million new co-op babies

We’ll keep you guys posted as to when Afterbirth will launch across the Playstation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, and the Nintendo 3DS.

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