The Basement Collection

The Basement Collection is a compilation of Edmund McMillen's Flash games released on August 31, 2012.^[1][2] The games were remade with added features and music tracks.

The Basement Collection
Designer(s)	Edmund McMillen Tyler Glaiel William Good Eli Piilonen Tommy Refenes Florian Himsl
Artist(s)	Edmund McMillen
Composer(s)	Danny Baranowsky
Platform(s)	Windows, OS X, Linux
Release	August 31, 2012
Genre(s)	Various
Mode(s)	Single-player

Content

The games in the collection include:

• Triachnid (2006), a physics spider simulation game
• Coil (2008), an experimental game
• Meat Boy (2008), a Super Meat Boy predecessor
• Aether (2008), a space adventure game
• Grey-Matter (2008), an anti-shooter game
• Spewer (2009), a liquid physics platform game
• Time Fcuk (2009), a dark puzzle game

Unlockable content includes:

• The Lonely Hermit (2001), a child's story (unlocked by completing Triachnid)
• AVGM (2009), an experimental "Abusive Video Game Manipulation" joke mini-game (unlocked by completing Coil)
• Meat Boy (map pack) (2008), the Meat Boy game with different maps (unlocked by completing Meat Boy)
• The Box, scans of Edmund McMillen's art at 3–5 years-old that were found in a box kept by his grandmother (unlocked by completing Aether)
• Thicker Than Water, a 65-page virtual comic about Edmund McMillen's childhood (unlocked by completing Spewer)
• The Chest, eight years of drawings from Edmund McMillen's sketchbooks (unlocked by completing Time Fcuk)

Additionally, under steamapps/common/basement/moregames, four other games can be found:

• Carious Weltling (2003)
• Clubby the Seal (2004), a side-scrolling action game
• Carious Weltling 2 (2005)
• Viviparous Dumpling (2005)

Most of the content was previously published at Newgrounds:

• The Lonely Hermit (2001)
• Tri-achnid (2006)
• Coil (2008)
• Aether (2008)
• Meat Boy (2008)
• Grey-Matter (2008)
• Meat boy (map pack) (2008)
• AVGM (2009)
• Spewer (2009)
• Time Fcuk (2009)

Notes

• McMillen, Edmund (August 2012). "A new game has appeared in the basement!". Edmundm.com. Edmund McMillen. Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
• Rambo, Dant (2012-08-27). "Edmund McMillen Interview, Part 1: The Basement Collection". Gamezebo. Gamezebo, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
• Johnson, Ryan (2012-09-02). "Interview with Edmund McMillen for the Basement Collection (Reviewed)". GoozerNation. Michael Rohde. Archived from the original on 2012-09-09.
• Mason_M (2012-09-08). "The Basement Collection Review". WikiGameGuides.com. Next Gen Walkthroughs LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2012-09-17.