The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth will launch on Steam this Halloween, according to the game's official blog.

The anticipated expansion to the remake of Super Meat Boy developer Edmund McMillen's bizarre, fleshy roguelike brings a host of new material at which to shoot guilty, Catholic tears.

Currently, only a PC (Steam) release date exists, suggesting that a console release may take longer.

According to developer Nicalis, Afterbirth adds over 100 hours of new content:

- Greed Mode: a whole new game mode with a heavy focus on risk/reward that is a completely new way to play featuring new endings and a final boss.
- Expanded main game: a new final area has been added to the main game along with another new final boss and ending.
- Daily Runs: compete for highscore / best time on the leader boards in these daily seeded runs.
- 10 totally new and awesome challenges
- 1000+ new rooms, as well as new tiny rooms, closets and giant arching hallways.
- a totally new playable character, Lilith, mother of demons.
- 120 new items! not counting tons of new pickups, chests, pills, bombs, cards etc. taking the item count up beyond 525!
- 4 new alternate chapters with new chapter specific enemy types, visual themes, and surprises.
- a new seed code combo page, as well as a butt ton of new seed codes that mod the game.
- a greatly expanded soundtrack!
- new room types like, trap rooms, double treasure rooms, and ultra rare closets!
- a greatly expanded and updated hud system
- tons of new secret transformations
- 8 new bosses
- 25+ new enemies
- updated item combo system
- far too many new achievements
- 20 million new co-op babies

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth launches October 30th on Steam.