When Super Meat Boy was released seven years ago, its super-responsive controls and demanding platforming breathed new life into one of gaming’s oldest genres. Just over a decade later, the follow-up, Super Meat Boy Forever is gearing up to apply the same principles to a new well-liked, but seemingly tapped-out form: the endless runner.Super Meat Boy Forever was originally created as a mobile spin-off, before developer Team Meat fleshed out the concept, turning it into a full-fledged sequel. Though it’s now described as “a console game being released on mobile,” rather than the other way around, the underlying mobile sensibility is still obvious.

'Super Meat Boy Forever' is simple, smart, lethal, and addictive