Draft:Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain

Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is a 2024 3D platformer video game developed by Maddy Makes Games, released as a free download to celebrate Celeste 's sixth anniversary on January 29, 2024. Inspired by Super Mario 64 and continuing Celeste 's story, the player explores Celeste Mountain once more as Madeline.

Gameplay
Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain is a three-dimensional reimagining of its two-dimensional predecessor Celeste. Gameplay elements such as dashing and climbing return. Celeste 64 is contained to one level, "Forsaken City", which previously appeared as the first chapter of Celeste. There are 30 Strawberries around the map to collect, with some being found in Super Mario Sunshine inspired challenge areas accessible by finding cassette tapes.

Development and release
Celeste 64 was developed under two weeks by Maddy Makes Games, with the developers calling it a "similar to a weekend jam game". It released with no prior announcement as a free download onto the itch.io platform. Alongside it's release, the source code was released as a Github repository.

Reception
PC Gamer's Harvey Randall called the game a "solid proof of concept".