Animal Nicely, the primary title from Jason ‘dunkey’ Gastrow’s online game writer Bigmode, has been an plain hit, scoring virtually excellent opinions throughout the board. In case you’re amongst those that’ve fallen in love with the sport, you’ll be completely satisfied to know its creator, Billy Basso, has a second sport within the works, however possibly don’t get your hopes up for an Animal Nicely 2.

Basso lately partook in a Reddit AMA, alongside “enterprise/advertising man” Dan Adelman, to reply fan questions. Naturally, somebody requested Basso if he intends to make one other sport, to which he answered, “I’m at present planning to make a sport that shall be in the identical ‘universe’ however might not be a direct sequel.” Contemplating his subsequent mission is probably going very, very early in improvement, Basso wasn’t prepared to share any additional particulars, comparable to whether or not it’ll be one other Metroidvania like Animal Nicely or one thing utterly totally different.

He additionally dominated out Animal Nicely receiving any DLC, saying, “If I do work on one thing else associated to it, will probably be a brand new sport.” To be truthful, with what number of secrets and techniques there are to uncover in Animal Nicely, it’s not prefer it even wants DLC. It could be disappointing for some, however Adelman supplied additional context for the dearth of post-launch content material when one other fan requested if extra secrets and techniques could be added over time: “Billy needed to make a self-contained sport like again within the olden days when issues had been placed on a cartridge and had been frozen in time eternally. He did should make some patches right here and there for minor points that didn’t come up throughout our testing, however past that, the sport is finished.”

No matter Basso finally ends up making subsequent, it in all probability gained’t come out for a very long time, particularly if he stays the only real developer like he was on Animal Nicely. I’m positive some are hoping for one more Metroidvania, however with how a lot good will Animal Nicely has generated, I think about followers will flock to Basso’s subsequent sport it doesn’t matter what it finally ends up being.

In case you’ve not picked up Animal Nicely for your self, you actually ought to. You needn’t fear about getting caught or misplaced both for the reason that group has been determining options to the sport’s trickier duties. We even have a number of guides that can assist you out, together with one for sneak up on a squirrel and one for locating all the kangaroos.