Everyone’s STILL talking about Bugsnax
Young Horses’ hit game, Bugsnax, will be getting a big (free!) expansion this year, but when does the Bugsnax DLC come out? When will it release? When will you be able to hunt down the giant snacks and add them to your collection?
The DLC is called The Isle of Bigsnax, and as the name suggests, things are going to get much bigger and much more dangerous.
Inspired by the boss fights in Bugsnax, The Isle of Bigsnax presents players with huge new bugs/snacks on a brand new island, which was apparently also inspired by Jurassic Park 2. Speaking to Play magazine, creative director, Kevin Zuhn explained the inspiration:
“We wanted to have a kind of identifiable new mechanic – something that would really set this area apart from the others and something that would make these particular Bugnsax a little bit trickier to catch than the others. There was also then, of course, the idea of doing like The Lost World: Jurassic Park, right? Where we’re like ‘oh, a mysterious new island- and now they’re huge”.
– Kevin Zuhn, Creative Director/Writer Young Horses
The original announcement for the Busnax DLC – The Isle of Bigsnax – was made last year on the PlayStation Blog. That original post stated that the Bugsnax DLC update would release in early 2022. So where is it?
Unfortunately – and much to my five-year-old son’s annoyance – it is not yet here. What’s more, is that there still isn’t a release date for the Bugsnax DLC. We’re still in early 2022, to be fair, but how far into the year do we stop calling it “early 2022”? We’re three months in. Next month we’ll be a third of the way through.
For the sake of parents being badgered by their kids, let’s hope The Isle of Bigsnax makes an appearance sooner rather than later.