Celeste Season 9 Release date & what we know

1. Start

Start is the first subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter returns the player to a location resembling the end of The Summit C-Side where Madeline goes to grieve the death of the Old Woman in the time passed since the previous chapter. She and Badeline briefly combine once again to allow for two mid-air dashes and the two go to space to follow the Bird, where Badeline splits from her and Madeline must continue on the moon-like atmosphere with only one dash. This environment is the first appearance of moon blocks.

2. Singular

Singular is the second subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter introduces the player to double dash crystals and pufferfishes and contains some small rooms of average difficulty to teach the player most of the pufferfish mechanics. There are no story moments found in this subchapter.

3. Power Source

Power Source is the third subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter begins with introductions to jellyfishes until eventually reaching a very large room covered in electricity. Another object, the utility vault, is introduced here as a method of clearing this room and the surrounding rooms of electricity obstacles.

4. Remembered

Remembered is the fourth subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter makes use of pufferfishes and jellyfishes for many of its challenge and is also the first appearance of starbelts. The Crystal Heart of Chapter 9 can be obtained in this subchapter, however this one is empty and Madeline knows she must keep going after its forced collection.

5. Event Horizon

Event Horizon is the fifth subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter introduces the player to wavedashing with a tutorial at the Internet Café before testing the player's skills in practice rooms and then challenging rooms beyond. In this subchapter, Madeline nearly catches the Bird, but then crashes and thinks that it is trying to stop her from reaching Granny. There is a hidden "Nightmare Fuel Kevin Room" located near the end of this subchapter, featuring strange audio with a hidden meaning.

6. Determination

Determination is the sixth subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter continues on with the challenges presented in the previous subchapter and is the proper introduction to starblades. There is a secret room that can be found in this subchapter with the use of a demodash as a practice area for the technique. At the end of the subchapter, Badeline is present in a purple orb and will launch Madeline through crystals above, before the two argue for a bit as the next subchapter begins.

7. Stubbornness

Stubbornness is the seventh subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter is mostly composed of challenges utilizing cassette blocks, notably featuring new yellow and green variants of the cassette blocks in addition to the usual blue and pink ones. Aside from the argument that Madeline and Badeline have after reaching the subchapter, causing the whole screen to become more desaturated, there are no story moments found in this subchapter.

8. Reconciliation

Reconciliation is the eighth subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter is a gauntlet of rooms where the goal is to reach the end and destroy the utility vaults to move on to the next room, with these challenges often utilizing purple orbs and the final new object introduced in the game, the Bird. Madeline catches the Bird, but it flies away before telling her if it is Part of Granny. Madeline and Badeline both talk for a bit, then prepare to set things right as the saturation of the game's color comes back and set out to help the Bird escape.

9. Farewell

Farewell is the ninth and final subchapter of Chapter 9: Farewell in Celeste. The subchapter is composed of an enormous single room that the player is tasked to complete from beginning to end with no respawn points, having several sections and requiring mastery of jellyfish mechanics. When the end of the room is reached, Madeline will be launched up to the clouds and meet the Old Woman as they have one last exchange before her departure. Madeline then wakes up from her dream and has a video chat with Theo, who eventually shares a photo of his grandfather together with Granny when they were younger by Celeste mountain. There is a secret strawberry located in this subchapter known as the Moon Berry, accessible through a path requiring the obstacles littered across the main room to reach. If the end of the chapter is reached with a Golden Strawberry, then one final room will appear before the berry can be claimed and the chapter completed.