Celeste is a 2018 platform game designed, directed and written by Maddy Thorson and programmed by Thorson and Noel Berry. It is a remake of a PICO-8 game of the same name made by Thorson and Berry during a game jam in 2016. Set on a fictional version of Mount Celeste, it follows a young woman named Madeline who attempts to climb the mountain, and must face her inner demons in her quest to reach the summit.

Celeste was released worldwide independently on January 25, 2018, on Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, macOS, and Linux, followed by a release on Google Stadia in July 2020. It consists of eight chapters, plus a free downloadable content chapter titled Farewell that acts as an epilogue to the story, released on September 9, 2019.

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