PixelJunk Eden Encore will be available on the PlayStation Network this Thursday, the 16th of April. The expansion pack for Eden will cost $5.99.

According to Dylan Cuthbert, President and Executive Producer of Q-Games, Encore will “have the best of everything from the original game, with great pacing, well-designed levels and heaps of new ideas.” Cuthbert also revealed that the game features an Easter Egg at the end of the game which is that players will get a very special mode once you get all the Spectra in the expansion.

Encore is DLC so you will need to have the original game to enjoy the expansion. However, Cuthbert promised that there is about “15 hours worth of gameplay,” with “some very cool new gameplay concepts, it’s not just extra levels” and that there is “a whole set of new trophies for the Encore gardens.”

In addition the ‘All Spectra Found’ trophy glitch has been fixed, “the original Eden will also be patched on the same day and you will get your trophy retro-actively.”

If you have lost your original game save for Eden, don’t worry because “you only have to get two or three Spectra to show you have been through the tutorial/hints and then Encore is open to you.”

Cuthbert also teased a tad bit more news of the fourth installment for PixelJunk which Q-Games is currently hard at work on. The only thing we have to go on at the moment is that the game is “really unique and a lot of fun - and very pretty to look at.”

For more information about Eden Encore as well as some soothing screenshots head over to our previous coverage.

Source: PlayStation Blog