Super Meat Boy Forever may feel like it's been in development forever, but that's quick to come to a conclusion. During The Game Awards 2020, Team Meat shared the latest trailer for Super Meat Boy Forever. The trailer concluded with the game's newly updated release date, which had previously been a broad window of 2020. Team Meat is delivering on that promise, as Super Meat Boy Forever's new release date will be December 23, less than two weeks from now.
The new Super Meat Boy Forever trailer showed off a mix of the game's cinematics as well as gameplay. the cinematics are fully animated with the appearance of a Saturday morning cartoon show. The gameplay is both familiar and unique. It's still the same 2D platforming gameplay of the original game, at its core. However, it features much larger levels and a style that seems better fitting for a level creator. That same level of challenge definitely seems to be retained, too.
Speaking of a level editor, it's still planned that Super Meat Boy Forever will receive one after launch. At least, that was the plan the last time that Team Meat discussed it. Super Meat Boy Forever is also supposed to get a DLC pack that ups the difficulty to the extreme, too. Suffice to say, December 23 is just the start of Team Meat's plans for Super Meat Boy Forever, and there's plenty more to come.
It's been six years since the development of Super Meat Boy Forever began. The project's had its ups and downs since then, with one of Super Meat Boy's original creators, Edmund McMillen, leaving the team, and the scope of the project growing from a mobile game to a full sequel. There's definitely a story to tell about Super Meat Boy Forever's development sometime in the future. For now, fans of the franchise can be happy it's being released.
Super Meat Boy Forever releases December 23 on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and mobile devices.