It's been over two years since developer Edmund McMillen unveiled Repentance, the third and final ("for real this time") expansion for The Binding of Isaac, and now, to celebrate the base game's ninth anniversary, McMillen has popped back up to reveal a little more.

Initially, Repentance was announced to be a reworking of the extremely well-regarded Antibirth mod for The Binding of Isaac (it's being developed alongside Antibirth's original creator Vinh), albeit tweaked to "make it canon" and expanded with "a ton more content". However, that "ton more content", says McMillen in a new Steam post, is now substantial enough - "bigger than Rebirth was to the OG flash game - that Repentance is "basically a sequel at this point".

As detailed on Repentance's new Steam page, the expansion will introduce new locations, "horrible new enemies and bosses, weapon combos you've never synergised before and items [Isaac has] never seen... unholy terrors from his wildest dreams and worst nightmares!".

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth just received its fifth and final Booster Pack update on PC, adding new items, enemies, room layouts, a secret playable character, and more.

As with previous Booster Packs, the Forgotten Booster (as this latest is know) requires the Afterbirth+ expansion to function, and much of its new stuff is the work of the dedicated Isaac modding community - albeit touched and and polished to a sheen by publisher Nicalis before finding its way to the masses.

Its eight new mod items are Blanket, Sacrificial Altar, Lil Spewer, Marbles, Mystery Egg, Flat Stone, Rotten Penny, and Baby Bender, and they're accompanied by several community-created visual fixes in the form of the Real Cone Head and More Dirt Sprites mods.

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