Super Meat Boy Forever is the sort-of sequel we were expecting to come to Steam this year – but seemed to be sat sodden and forgotten while series co-creator Edmund McMillen occupied himself with the ickily-titled Binding of Isaac DLC Afterbirth, and police line-up whodunnit Fingered.

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But it’s now McMillen’s “primary project”. Squishy, sentient steak is back on the menu.

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“Super Meat Boy Forever is back in development again and is my primary project at this point now that Afterbirth is basically complete on my end and Fingered is [almost] out,” he told Destructoid.

McMillen had taken a six month break to prepare for the birth of his daughter – before wrapping up work on Afterbirth and developing Fingered as a kind of game design palate cleanser. He’s now regrouped with Super Meat partner-in-crime Tommy Refenes.

Super Meat Boy Forever is an odd one: conceived around a simple control scheme to avoid a finickity port of Super Meat Boy on touchscreen platforms, it’s coming to Steam with the same cruel precision of the original. It’s no endless runner – but early gifs suggest longer, less dense levels.

Cat-hoarding sim Mew-genics, meanwhile, will remain on hold until after Forever is out.

Which of McMillen’s myriad projects are you keenest on? Here’s what he’d do with a Binding of Isaac 2.