Free Broforce Forever Update Arrives in August, Also Coming to Xbox

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Devolver Digital and developer Free Lives’ 2015 hit Broforce is basting its biceps in baby oil one more time. It’s been confirmed the belated final update for the game will arrive on August 8 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. In conjunction with the update, Broforce will also arrive on Xbox for the first time; an Xbox One edition of Broforce will be available via Game Pass.

The update, dubbed Broforce Forever, will add six new “ultra patriotic bros” to the mix, including riffs on ’90s TV action heroines Xebro Warrior Princess and Broffy the Vampire Slayer, plus Bro Gummer (inspired by Burt Gummer from Tremors), Seth Brondle (inspired by Seth Brundle from The Fly), Demolition Bro (inspired by Demolition Man’s John Spartan), and Desperabro (a long-overdue ode to Robert Rodriguez’s vigilante mariachi). Presumably he’s just looking for a man who calls himself Bucho, but Broforce’s Satan-loving scumbags just had to do it the hard way.

Also included in the Forever update are new and improved baddies, tweaks to existing urban levels to make them slightly tougher, and four challenge levels called Muscle Temples – in which Indiana Brones must successfully navigate his way through to unlock one of four new flexes that can be deployed by “any bro, any time, any place. Just like freedom.” The flexes appear to be power-ups, and Free Lives’ announcement refers to a ‘Teleport Flex’, an ‘Invincible Flex’, an ‘Air Jump Flex’, and a mysterious ‘Golden Flex.’

Broforce was first released in 2015, after beginning life as a game jam project way back in 2012. IGN’s review described Broforce as a 16-bit inspired “love letter to action cinema carved into lead, fired into the corpse of the nearest copy of Contra, and then brought to life via dark magic.”

For more on Broforce, check out our new chat with creative director Evan Greenwood on the motivation to return to Broforce for one final update, the hilarious process for adding new bros to the game, and the possible future of the series.

Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can chat to him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly.