Released in 2012, Stealth Inc was created to answer a single question; “Why do Stealth games have to be so slow?” The original game introduced players to the trap, laser and death filled test chambers of the nefarious PTi industries, charging them with completing puzzles and platforming challenges across 80 different levels.

Since its original release, Stealth Inc and its PC counterpart, Stealth Bastard Deluxe, have been downloaded over one million times and have won multiple awards - not bad for a game that was started as a lunchtime project and originally released as a freeware puzzle game on PC.

In Stealth Inc 2, players return to the dark corridors of PTi Industries in Stealth Inc 2, but this time they aren’t limited to test chambers – they have full run of the facility, breaking into chambers and exploring an open world, employing brand new equipment in a quest to save fellow clones from human experimentation. For the first time, the game will also include co-operative gameplay via the Wii U GamePad.

Stealth Inc creator and Game Director on the project, Jonathan Biddle, said: “We’ve relished revisiting the world of Stealth Inc. It’s given us the chance to really fine tune the Stealth Inc experience, while also hugely expanding it with the addition of a larger explorable game world, and a more involved narrative.”

Stealth Inc 2 is due out for Nintendo’s Wii U system in 2014, and is being published by indie games publisher, Curve Digital.

Kicking off a month of game announcements, independent game publisher Curve Digital has today announced an ‘Ultimate Edition’ of Stealth Inc to be released on the PS4 in early March.

The Ultimate Edition includes the main Stealth Inc game alongside two large DLC expansions, The Teleporter Chambers and The Lost Clones, representing an additional 40 levels and bringing the total levels in the game up to 120. The DLC packs also add new trophies and represent the most challenging and varied levels in the series so far.

“Stealth Inc Ultimate edition is an exciting first release for Curve on the PlayStation 4,” said Marketing Manager Rob Clarke, “The DLC levels of Stealth Inc are some of the absolute best the game has to offer, so it’s great to be able to offer those as part of the main game on a next-gen console.”

Curve will be announcing three more games in the next three weeks, all of which will be available for the PlayStation 4. Clarke said: “We’re excited about the power and potential of the PlayStation 4, but we’re also not abandoning the Vita or the PlayStation 3, and we’ll be continuing to offer cross-buy titles whenever and wherever we can.”

Meanwhile, the iOS version of Stealth Inc is currently available at a 50% discount, while the PC version Stealth Bastard can be purchased in the Bundlestars ‘Brutal Bundle’ for £3.64 along with 10 other games.

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Curve Studios has announced that Teleporter Chambers, the first DLC level pack for Stealth Bastard Deluxe, will be available on Steam later today priced £1.99/$2.99/€2.49.

The add-on content contains 20 brand new levels designed around the teleporter equipment. In these levels, players can obtain teleporters from handy vending machines to help them evade the glare of deadly security robots. The DLC also includes six new achievements and unlocks new features in the base game’s level editor.

Stealth Bastard’s creator Jonathan Biddle spoke about the decision to focus on the teleporters in the new levels. “The prototype of the original Stealth Bastard featured teleporters as a core mechanic,” he revealed. “But in the end I took the game in a different direction. Now that Stealth Bastard Deluxe is complete, we felt it would be fun to take it back to its roots by giving the teleporter its time in the limelight.

“It’s a unique twist on the formula – it makes the game play very differently. It encourages the player to think much more strategically to beat some mind-bending puzzles.”

Curve Studios has today confirmed that Stealth Bastard Deluxe will be available worldwide on Steam on November 28th, priced $9.99 / £6.99 / €8.99.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe is a rebuilt version of Curve’s acclaimed prototype, which has been downloaded over 135,000 times. The game takes a razor to the stealth genre, hacking off the unnecessary padding to create one of the purest sneak-‘em-ups ever created: if you’re seen, you’re probably dead.

The Deluxe version takes everything that made the original so popular and improves upon it in every way. With new gadgets, new levels, new enemies and new traps, it’s the best, most punishingly hilarious stealth platform game known to man.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe is set across eight chapters, with 80 levels in total, charting the adventures of the protagonist, as he runs, jumps, scuttles and slides through the facility in a bid to escape his fate.

This fast-paced action platformer has been described as a cross between Metal Gear Solid and Super Meat Boy. Players must use the shadows to evade enemies and traps, hacking terminals to open fresh areas, and using new equipment to create diversions or negotiate troublesome areas.

The game introduces new play mechanics in the form of decoy devices, teleporters and shadow generators – among others – each of which can be used to tackle levels differently. Shaving milliseconds off each level will bump players up the global leadboards – offering true bragging rights, and the title of “sneakiest bastard”.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe also comes with a revised editor, allowing players to experiment with their own set of traps to create fiendish levels which can be shared globally .

“We’ve learnt so much since we released the original prototype last year,” says Jonathan Biddle, design director, Curve Studios. “And it’s all been poured into Stealth Bastard Deluxe. The feedback from the community has given us the impetus to create a full version of the original idea – and we’re absolutely thrilled with how it’s shaping up. Seeing the game evolve from a single mechanic of “don’t be seen or you will get killed”, into a fully-fledged Steam release has been enormously rewarding – and we can’t wait to get the full version out there and see how the Steam community reacts.”

Curve Studios has today announced that it's indie stealth-‘em-up, Stealth Bastard Deluxe, is heading to Steam next month.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe’ story began last year. Wanting to take a razor to the unnecessary complications of the modern stealth genre, design director Jonathan Biddle used his spare time to create the grin-inducing Stealth Bastard – a fast-paced sneaking game in which players must escape a facility full of fiendishly gory insta-death traps.

The initial idea blossomed into a tightly-crafted action platformer, which was released for free via the firm’s website almost 12 months ago. To date, over 125,000 players have downloaded the game.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe keeps the essence of Stealth Bastard – which has been described as a cross between Metal Gear Solid and Super Meat Boy – but builds upon it in almost every way.

Players must journey to the exit of each level by employing a mix of platforming, puzzle solving, hacking and stealth. Vicious robot drones are on constant patrol, poised to shoot on-sight. Security cameras perform constant sweeps, ready to execute anyone who falls within their field of vision. And fiendish traps lurk in every shadow, eager to lure careless agents into their clutches.

The main game now boasts a brilliant new narrative which reveals the origin of the character, and why he’s trying to escape such a bastard-tough facility. With 80 levels spread across eight worlds, there’s even more hard-as-nails challenge – featuring all-new equipment, and lots and lots of new ways to die.

Stealth Bastard Deluxe will also come complete with an intuitive level editor, allowing players to become the titular bastard themselves. Levels can be shared and ranked by the Stealth Bastard community, with a comprehensive online leaderboard tracking and ranking progress – enabling players to boast when they are better bastards than their friends.

“We were amazed at the success of the original Stealth Bastard,” says Jonathan Biddle, design director, Curve Studios. “What was originally just an exercise in trimming the fat off existing stealth mechanics has grown into a phenomenal cult hit.

“The free version of Stealth Bastard, was only ever a sketch; an incomplete vision of what we really wanted to do. With the new release on Steam, we’ve now been given the opportunity to build on the original’s foundations, and broaden the gameplay experience in every area. I can’t wait to plaster brand new grins across the faces of existing Stealth Bastard fans, as well as new ones.”

Stealth Bastard Deluxe will be available next month, exclusively on Steam. The free version will remain available on stealthbastard.com, but will no longer be updated.