Astro Bot Update 1.017 Adds Five New Levels and Bots via “Challenge” DLC

by Alex Co July 10, 2025 10:11 am in Title Updates and Patches
Astro Bot Update 1.017

Team Asobi has a special treat for Astro Bot players today, as a new update is available for download now, and this adds new levels and bots for free.

Players will see it appear as Astro Bot update version 1.017 (1.017.000), and clocks in at just 963 MB. For a deeper look at each new level, and who the new bots are, head on below.

Astro Bot Challenge DLC Update Version 1.017.000 Now Live

All five levels are available to download now, and it won’t be a staggered release like in previous free DLC drops. The five new levels are:

  • Twin-Frog Trouble
  • Suck It Up
  • Handhold Havoc
  • High Inflation

The last one is a secret  that you’ll want to uncover yourself. This brings the game’s total levels at 90+! Of course, this new DLC won’t be complete without new bots to save.

If you don’t want anything spoiled for you, I suggest turning away now, but if you don’t care about that, here are the new bots added with today’s update:

  • Chrono Cross – Serge
  • NieR Automata – 2B
  • Ghost of Yotei – Atsu
  • Final Fantasy 7 – Cloud Strife
  • Final Fantasy 7 – Sepiroth

As you can see, Square Enix finally caved and allowed Final Fantasy 7 characters to be part of the game! This is a huge win given just last year, it was mentioned how the publisher didn’t want to include FF7 characters in the game as bots even if they are part of PlayStation history.

We suspect this won’t be the last we’ll see of new Astro Bot levels, and if Team Asobi announces anything, we’ll let our readers know/

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Alex Co

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