Our favorite open world FPS indie gem is getting New Game+, Spider-Man swinging, and wallrunning later this month

echo point nova game — (Image credit: Greylock Studio)

Echo Point Nova is a wonder. Greylock Studio's indie FPS enchanted us in 2024 with its high-flying, hoverboarding, hyperchill gunplay, and—if ziplining onto a cloud with an energy grappling hook to shotgun blast an enemy soldier during a slow-motion backflip somehow left any room for doubt—it secured a permanent place in our hearts with a massive free expansion last August.

Now, the "2007-core" shooter is getting even bigger. In an X post yesterday, Greylock founder Matt Larrabee announced that Echo Point Nova will be receiving yet another meaty update later this month, bringing more replayability and remixed movement styles.

New Game Plus coming to Echo Point Nova this month! Customize a new playthrough by carrying over whichever unlocks you want.Optionally randomize weapon pickups, enemy spawns, and more.Try out 3 new movement modes! Rope grapple, sprint (with wallrun), and jetpack! pic.twitter.com/9Qw9DO132pApril 3, 2026

The main attraction of the update is the addition of a New Game+ mode, which Larrabee says will let players fine-tune their replays by deciding which unlocks they want to carry over between playthroughs. New Game+ will provide additional customization options like enabling randomized weapon pickup locations and enemy spawns.

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While I appreciate the chance to embark on a fresh set of firefights across the sky islands without needing to relocate my favorite shotgun, I'm more interested in the new movement modes also being added in the April update. As alternatives to the default hoverboard and zipline, the update will offer a jetpack, wallrun-enabled sprinting for some Titanfall flair, and what Larrabee calls the "rope grapple" movement style.

That one's web-swinging. Like Spider-Man. And yes, just like the default grappling hook, it also works on clouds. That's videogames, baybee.

Echo Point Nova is a celebration of the simple videogame joy of moving and shooting at high speeds, and I could not be more thrilled to see it offer more ways to express and explore that satisfaction by shifting the player's relationship with momentum and gravity. How will the moving meditation of emptying a magazine change when a floating boulder is something to whip myself around rather than slingshot past? I'm eager to see.

Larrabee didn't put a date on the April update, but you can keep tabs on Echo Point Nova on Steam.

Lincoln has been writing about games for 12 years—unless you include the essays about procedural storytelling in Dwarf Fortress he convinced his college professors to accept. Leveraging the brainworms from a youth spent in World of Warcraft to write for sites like Waypoint, Polygon, and Fanbyte, Lincoln spent three years freelancing for PC Gamer before joining on as a full-time News Writer in 2024, bringing an expertise in Caves of Qud bird diplomacy, getting sons killed in Crusader Kings, and hitting dinosaurs with hammers in Monster Hunter.

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