The indie darling has cleared 500K sales

Have you surmounted every challenge inCeleste? If so, you better rest up. More’s on the way.

We originallygaveCelestea 10 out of 10and just recently named it thebest Nintendo Switch game of 2018. It’s been an eventful year for creator Matt Thorson and co. In a thread on Twitter confirming 500,000 sales so far, he teased the arrival of “very hard” new farewell levels and a proper announcement for the team’s next project. (We got thetiniest of peeksearlier this month.)

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We’re working on some farewell Celeste levels, which should be ready in early 2019. They’re very hard. And we’ll be announcing what’s next for us in the new year as well. See you in 2019 🙂

— Matt Thorson 🍂 (@MattThorson)August 04, 2025

The ghost at the end of the hallway

Lena Raine, the composer ofCeleste, also had uplifting news to share:

To add to this, the Celeste OST has sold over 6,000 copies across all platforms & streamed on Spotify over 4 million times. Ty so much for all your support, it’s legitimately enabled me to launch my freelance career & continue to write rad music for you all 💛https://t.co/vKAJWnjoh2

Picking up the smiley face post-it off the broken mirror

— Lena 🔜 🎄 ⏭ MAGFest (@kuraine)August 10, 2025

I’m pleased to see this game resonate with so many people on so many different levels. I knew it’d be good based on Thorson’s track record, but I wasn’t sure if it would click on a large scale.

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