{"id":102924,"date":"2019-11-01T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/steamworld_quest_gets_physical_on_switch_pre-orders_go_live_next_week"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:15:00","slug":"steamworld-quest-gets-physical-on-switch-pre-orders-go-live-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/steamworld-quest-gets-physical-on-switch-pre-orders-go-live-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"SteamWorld Quest Gets Physical On Switch, Pre-Orders Go Live Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cf2ebee8aba8f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cf2ebee8aba8f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uurmtC3hkqk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Super Rare Games has today revealed that it has partnered up with Image &amp; Form and Thunderful to release a physical edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_quest_hand_of_gilgamech\"><strong>SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech<\/strong><\/a> on Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>A physical release has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/steamworld_quest_wont_release_physically_at_launch_or_at_all_on_3ds_no_loot_boxes_or_microtransactions\">been on the cards<\/a> since before the game even released, but it&#8217;s nice to see that the day has finally arrived. Pre-orders for the physical edition will be going live exclusively on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/superraregames.com\/\">Super Rare Games<\/a> on 7th November.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, the deal with Super Rare took place over a game of chess between company founder George Perkins and CEO of Image &amp; Form, Brjann Sigurgeirsson. In a press release covering the announcement, Perkins says, &#8220;I jokingly mentioned that if I beat him he would have to sign with us to release SteamWorld Quest physically! I got beat very, very badly but luckily we still managed to sign the deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Excitingly, he goes on to say, &#8220;I hope we can bring the rest of the amazing SteamWorld series as a physical release in the near future&#8221;. <em>Yes please<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"SteamWorld Coming Soon Vanity\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a05dc6a7b5122\/steamworld-coming-soon-vanity.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a05dc6a7b5122\/steamworld-coming-soon-vanity.900x.jpg\" alt=\"SteamWorld Coming Soon Vanity\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you need a catch up on what SteamWorld Quest is all about, make sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_quest_hand_of_gilgamech\">check out our full review<\/a>. We&#8217;ll leave just a snippet below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Remarkably solid and satisfying, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech is a card battler with an abundance of charm in its art, mechanics and writing. The presentation is slick, the dialogue\u2019s witty and the gameplay\u2019s addictive, although nothing about it feels particularly <em>special<\/em> \u2013 not in the way <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_dig_2\">SteamWorld Dig 2<\/a><\/strong> felt special. It does what it does well, though, and it\u2019s still a thoroughly enjoyable time in that universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Will you be hoping to add a physical copy of the game to your collection? Already own it digitally? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uurmtC3hkqk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Super Rare Games has today revealed that it has partnered up with Image &amp; Form and Thunderful to release a physical edition of SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech on Nintendo Switch. A physical release has been on the cards since before the game even released, but it&#8217;s nice to see that the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}