Olympus News
These are the Celeste modding news that appeared in Olympus, a mod manager and installer for the Everest mod loader. The news feed is managed by touhoe and cellularAutomaton (touhoe and cellularautomaton on Discord), and published through the GitHub repository of the Everest website.
This news feed is also available in JSON format and as an RSS / Atom feed.
I Wish There Were More Credits-Like Maps...
Published on October 26, 2026 Downleft Contest features 16 maps all focused on, well, moving down + left! Instead of following the standard flow of movement travelling up and to the right, each mapper found cool smooth ways for Madeline to work her way backwards! Complete with a lobby and heartside, this contest is bound to make upright gameplay start to feel unnatural! Download it below!
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Rework, Revamp, Remix!
Published on October 20, 2026 Remix Contest is a small pack of 10 worldbending interpretations of the prompt "remix." Every single mapper channeled a wholly unique set of inspirations & influences to assemble a collage that is surprising, inventive, and often quite whimsical. With a difficulty cap of advanced, this contest is pretty dang accessible! Go check it out below!
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This Collab Is Nuts!
Published on October 17, 2026 Acorn Collab contains 20+ maps of all different kinds of styles & gameplay! The collab mainly leans towards Expert - Grandmaster, but there is a good amount of easier maps too! After over 2 years in development, it’s finally complete with a heartside & custom music! Go stuff your cheeks with peak in the link below!
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Your Raincoat's Greatest Honor Yet!
Published on October 9, 2026 Drip Drop is a rainy adventure created by ABuffZucchini, Blacklight, Crispybag, and Irisu. This Superfecta-like map features 16 rooms of Yellow Grandmaster gameplay — each mapper made 1 room for each distinctly sopping wet area, complete with a splashy visual flair & entity palette! Leap into this ocean of peak in the link below!
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A Dark Fountain Has Opened In Madeline’s House!
Published on September 8, 2026 Following Path of Hope by Flagpole1up and the Deltarune map in Crossover Collab by Inferno, the legacy continues with Late Night, a re-imagining of Deltarune Chapter 3 constructed by BadTie! Each of the 3 checkpoints lovingly adapts the visuals with ultra-smooth Comfy GM techspam on display! Get your ratings up, have fun, and don’t forget to look for the shadow crystal!
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It's Time Santa Got Back To His ROOTS...
Published on September 2, 2026 Vanilla Secret Santa Collab is yet another one of those big things where 60+ people gift a map tailored to a special someone's deepest darkest wishes. The only twist: it's vanilla! Plenty of chill maps that seek to recapture the magic of Maddy Thorson's beloved A-Sides, and many other difficult maps that strain against the walls of vanilla's possibility space. Take a licking to these flavors in the link below!
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Goopvendor's New Favorite GM Map!
Published on August 27, 2026 Tracing Colors is a ~50 room grandmaster map made by ssat for the blind race at Fangame Summer Feast! New q_is_sleeping music, LuckyHelper code, EndlessRain assets, and Myn_Gen deco also help contribute to this beautifully vivid masterpiece! The goopvendor GameBanana comment says it's peak, so don't waste another second & go download the map below!
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Celeste's Newest Museum Is Open For Business!
Published on August 22, 2026 After over a year in development, the Chinese Community came together to release the wonderful Canvas Contest! Featuring a massive lobby with over 20 maps, colored intermediate to grandmaster, each brushstroke is rendered to perfection! Come take a gander at all the different shades of creativity in the link below!
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Yes... The Gears Have Clicked Into Place!
Published on August 15, 2026 Spark in the Machine is one of the most ambitious standalones of all time: ABuffZucchini & Ricky06 poured 3 years of work into 100+ rooms, custom gimmicks, and a ridiculous number of assets. Intricate contraptions & machinery are weaved with movement that is sharp as steel. Not to mention the 45 minutes of custom music by Soggy Milk. Do yourself (and Mr. Oshiro) a favor by investigating this map in the link below!
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This Nightmare Is Quite Dreamy...
Published on August 8, 2026 In the works for nearly 2 years, The Nightmare features 17 maps all made by 1 person, Shinxray! Inspired by Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky, this pack started out as a university art project! Shinxray began weaving in a number of different inspirations, including other games, music, and paintings, resulting in a wide variety of maps! Close your eyes and prepare to be frightened by the creativity on display!
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Hold Your Gifter Close, And Your Giftee Closer!
Published on July 25, 2026 Secret Santa Collab 2026 is the 4th installment of a project where each mapper crafts a map lovingly tailored to suit one another's preferences! There were practically no restrictions when it came to the making of the maps, so you can find wildly unique experiences in this collab! The maps are split up into Easy, Medium, and Hard lobbies, so there's still plenty jolly joy to experience if you are an beginner - expert player! Go check it out in the link below!
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In Spring, Flowers Bloom! But In Summer...
Published on July 22, 2026 Clover Birthday Collab presents 8 maps ranging from Expert to Grandmaster, all lovingly crafted for the streamer cll0verr's birthday! Featuring a heartside, original music, and plenty of shenanigans, some of these maps are the flowiest of the year! Give it a play in the link below!
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!sselemiT sI balloC sihT
Published on May 10, 2026 Negative Time Mini Collab was made to further explore the depths of the most jank & fascinating entity there is, the negative time crystal. 14 different mappers took a unique disciplinary approach, and we now have access to the fruits of their studies. Bare witness to blocks slingshotting far beyond their limits, fish and seekers oscillating between life and death, and more in the link below.
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To Slip, Or Not To Slide
Published on April 22, 2026 Slipperiest Nook is the 3rd and final map in a trilogy of very slippery maps, and the title speaks for itself. With over 65 rooms of slippery goodness, about half of which are guest rooms from other mappers, you won't ever want to stand on frictionful ground again! The map peaks at about advanced, check it out below!
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Sonder in 5 Easy Steps:
Published on April 19, 2026 Sonder is a 35-room advanced map exploring the ins and outs of teleporting short distances through tiles. As you make your way through this beautiful marsh, you will learn to look at terrain in ways you've never thought of before. Check it out below!
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I Wish I Was Where? Here!
Published on April 11, 2026 Where You Wish You Were is a map pack consisting of 8 maps of birthday beginner to cupcake intermediate! Packed full of silly fluffy NPCs and quirky colorful pngs, each map has plenty of surprises! Featuring an entire album made specifically for this project, everybody join in and wish Aurorameow a happy birthday!
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Santa Free Trial! *License Pending*
Published on April 1, 2026 Even More Legally Distinct Secret Santa is a map pack of 13 maps where each mapper put together a special gift map catered towards someone else! This Secret Santa Collab is special because… it just is! There’s a fun minigame map & a multiplayer PvP map for beginners, and much more for advanced+ players! Click the link below!
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This Map Is So Super...
Published on March 27, 2026 FOCUS, a map inspired by the music and visuals of Super Hexagon, just got a B-Side update! If you haven't heard about this map or its electric beats, the A-Side already has 15 rooms of high-octane expert gameplay. The B-Side is definitely trickier and possibly even more robust! If you enjoy crispy, twitchy, flowy movement, check out the link below!
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Bittersweet Bouncy Beats!
Published on March 20, 2026 Spearmint and Rosemary is a sweet garden stroll through mint advanced to rose advanced bounce helper gameplay! A splash of new tricks here, a dash of puzzly moments there, and a handful of berries for good measure! Check this map out below if you're down to savor a pleasantly mellow jaunt!
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Buckle Up!
Published on March 16, 2026 Join a colorful cast of passengers in Road Trip, put together by Nyan for Donker19’s birthday! Peaking at low expert, there are plenty of silly rooms you can play to pass the time. Before you know it, laughter, tears, and bodacious fun ensue. Click on the link below to download!
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