Our favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month

Echo Point Nova is a wonder. Greylock Studio’s indie FPS enchanted us in 2024 with its high-flying, hoverboarding, hyperchill gunplay, and—if ziplining onto a cloud with an energy grappling hook to shotgun blast an enemy soldier during a slow-motion backflip somehow left any room for doubt—it secured a permanent place in our hearts with a massive free expansion last August.

Now, the “2007-core” shooter is getting even bigger. In an X post yesterday, Greylock founder Matt Larrabee announced that Echo Point Nova will be receiving yet another meaty update later this month, bringing more replayability and remixed movement styles.

The main attraction of the update is the addition of a New Game+ mode, which Larrabee says will let players fine-tune their replays by deciding which unlocks they want to carry over between playthroughs. New Game+ will provide additional customization options like enabling randomized weapon pickup locations and enemy spawns.

While I appreciate the chance to embark on a fresh set of firefights across the sky islands without needing to relocate my favorite shotgun, I’m more interested in the new movement modes also being added in the April update. As alternatives to the default hoverboard and zipline, the update will offer a jetpack, wallrun-enabled sprinting for some Titanfall flair, and what Larrabee calls the “rope grapple” movement style.

That one’s web-swinging. Like Spider-Man. And yes, just like the default grappling hook, it also works on clouds. That’s videogames, baybee.

Echo Point Nova is a celebration of the simple videogame joy of moving and shooting at high speeds, and I could not be more thrilled to see it offer more ways to express and explore that satisfaction by shifting the player’s relationship with momentum and gravity. How will the moving meditation of emptying a magazine change when a floating boulder is something to whip myself around rather than slingshot past? I’m eager to see.

Larrabee didn’t put a date on the April update, but you can keep tabs on Echo Point Nova on Steam.

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