Astro Bot

Sony's glossy mascot gets an outing filled with imagination and loving craft.

Engaging from start to finish and full of wonderful touches that take your breath away, Astro Bot is a phenomenal experience that will keep you glued to your screen. And even once you're done it's likely that you'll return time and again. Ultimately, it's a joyous celebration of video games, and a must-have 3D platformer for PS5 owners.

An obscenely polished and soul-affirming triumph from every angle, Astro Bot isn't just an unabashed celebration of all things PlayStation, it's a deeply passionate celebration of everything you could and should love about a video game. There are no microtransactions, no season passes and no busywork padding - just precisely engineered 3D platforming with an overabundance of joy on offer. Astro Bot is a big, warm hug of a videogame that also happens to be not just one of the best platform games ever made, but one of the best PS5 games ever made, too. Team Asobi, please never stop making these ...

If, like me, you’ve been waiting for Nintendo to deliver a new 3D Mario game for the best part of a decade, look no further - Team ASOBI has done it themselves. For those who own a PlayStation, consider Astro Bot an essential purchase.

Across the 10-15 hours of Astro Bot I gratefully lapped up, I had an immovable grin on my face. I smiled and laughed (unironically) from start to finish—Astro Bot is ridiculously fun and makes gaming fun.

Astro Bot is a must play title for anyone yearning for a classic 90s platformer and collect-a-thon. With vibrant levels and additional challenges this game will be a blast for those of all skill levels. Fans of PlayStation since the PS1 will adore all of the references packed in.

Astro Bot is a breath of fresh air from PlayStation’s first parties, as it truly encapsulates that old-school feeling, where Sony didn’t have the same formulaic game and took chances on other genres. Team Asobi knocked it out of the park with a game that is just tremendously fun to play.

“Astro Bot is a triumphant and expertly designed return to PlayStation's more playful days.”

Astro Bot is a wonderful love letter to all things PlayStation, and an exceptional platformer in its own right. If you own a PS5, you need to play this game.

Team Asobi cements itself as an essential PlayStation studio with an imaginative platformer for the ages.

Team ASOBI has yet again cracked the code of delivering an experience that's fun, rewarding and nostalgic all at the same time. With nostalgic callbacks, vibrant worlds and welcoming gameplay, there's truly something for everyone in Astro Bot. It's a bite-sized adventure that packs a punch of color and charm that satisfies fans of old and new. While enemies and themes could have used more variety, Astro Bot is a sure-fire Game of the Year contender and poised to be one of PlayStation 5's signature titles that's well deserving of said namesake.

Thematically, Team Asobi revels in the freedom of the traditional platform game: not having to stick to a theme at all. Astro Bot’s levels are a restless parade of “what if [blank], but robots?” where the blanks are filled in by turtle temples, funky trees, construction sites, or the inside of a giant worm. In the Spooky Time level, Astro pauses time to navigate a haunted house. In Free Big Brother, Astro unshackles an Iron Giant-sized bot and clambers up his limbs. Everything is made out of the same smooth, machined plastic and metal as a PlayStation device, even the rabbits, trees, and pengu...