Astro Bot adds more third-party characters to its credits – will they appear in future DLC levels?

This year’s Astro Bot is a huge love letter to the entire PlayStation brand, mainly because it featured many VIP bots dressed up as beloved characters from classic franchises, like God of War, Horizon, Crash Bandicoot, Parappa the Rapper, and more.

Fortunately for fans, Team ASOBI kept making and releasing free speedruning DLC levels to Astro Bot after launch, and they added new VIP bots from games like Stellar Blade, Helldivers 2, and Destiny. However, fans noticed that the studio also updated the game’s credits very recently, and now they list a new character that wasn’t there before.

Since its initial release, Astro Bot’s credits feature the copyright of third-party franchises that don’t appear in the base game, and this list keeps getting bigger and bigger with each new update. Specifically, all the cameo-less IPs so far are: Rayman, Assasin’s Creed, Beyond Good & Evil, Worms, and Croc. And now, Tomba/Tombi appears on the credits as well.

While Team ASOBI released Astro Bot’s final speedrunning level earlier this week, it also talked about its other DLC plans in the past, which means that VIP bots dressed up as characters from all these franchises listed in the credits will most likely appear in upcoming challenge levels. However, we currently don’t know whether this DLC will also be free or not.

Astro Bot understands the importance of all these franchises

Even though Astro Bot featured cameos from several beloved franchises that are important for the history of PlayStation, some obvious and expected choices were weirdly missing. So it’s good to know that more of them will arrive in the near future, and these credits indicate that Team ASOBI definitely knows what it’s doing.

It seems the studio is collaborating closely with Ubisoft to make more Astro Bot content, and for good reason. After all, gamers still remember the older Rayman games as some of the best PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 platformers, Beyond Good & Evil gave the PS2 a thrilling adventure game that could compete against The Legend of Zelda and the Assasin’s Creed series was a huge deal during the PlayStation 3 era.

The addition of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Tomba is also quite fascinating. While they are not as recognizable as other platforming icons, like (Crash Bandicoot or Spyro the Dragon) these still were solid PlayStation 1 games that many people appreciate to this day. Curiously enough, a remastered version of the first Tomba title recently launched on modern consoles, and Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Remastered is set to release in the near future. So it’s possible that companies are planning the addition of their respective VIP bots as some sort of timed cross-promotion for each remaster.

The only oddity in the list is Worms, because this franchise of cartoony tactical games thrived more on PC rather than on home console. But some of them launched on PlayStation systems, so its inclusion wouldn’t be completely out of the blue. Regardless of these minute details, you can expect more fun levels and adorable cameos to arrive to Astro Bot very soon.