{"id":137560,"date":"2026-06-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-202493"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:00","slug":"chained-echoes-is-finally-getting-its-physical-release-after-last-attempt-ended-in-a-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/chained-echoes-is-finally-getting-its-physical-release-after-last-attempt-ended-in-a-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chained Echoes Is Finally Getting Its Physical Release, After Last Attempt Ended In A Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51a33095d5993\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51a33095d5993\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"51a33095d5993\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Chained Echoes Physical\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51a33095d5993\/chained-echoes-physical.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51a33095d5993\/chained-echoes-physical.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Chained Echoes Physical\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Deck13 Spotlight<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/chained_echoes\">Chained Echoes<\/a> developer Matthias Linda announced that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/03\/chained-echoes-dev-is-filing-a-lawsuit-against-physical-distributor\">filing a lawsuit against distributor First Press Games<\/a> after a two-year wait for his promised physical release. Well, good news! The dev has partnered with a new company, and the physical launch is back on track.<\/p>\n<p>Super Rare Games has today announced that it is taking on the distribution mantle, with Standard and Deluxe Edition pre-orders arriving next week on <strong>18th June<\/strong> at <strong>6pm BST \/ 10am PT \/ 1am ET<\/strong>, before a planned ship in September. The company expects this to be a popular one, and is only promising it as a &#8220;limited pre-order release&#8221; for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Both editions include the base game and its accompanying &#8216;Ashes of Elrant&#8217; DLC, while the Deluxe Edition also throws in a hardback A5 artbook, a poster, a gold coin, and an exclusive clamshell box to keep it all in.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a long time coming for all those who backed the game on Kickstarter and have been expecting a physical copy in the years since. Linda has confirmed that &#8220;eligible Kickstarter backers who pledged for a physical copy will receive the game at no additional cost,&#8221; so keep an eye on those inboxes if this applies to you.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"ccd2c02857bbc\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Chained Echoes Physical\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ccd2c02857bbc\/chained-echoes-physical.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ccd2c02857bbc\/chained-echoes-physical.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Chained Echoes Physical\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Deck13 Spotlight \/ Super Rare Games<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to see this physical promise finally come into fruition, because this is a wonderful little game. &#8220;Chained Echoes is a wonderful mash-up of &#8217;90s JRPG tropes,&#8221; we said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/chained-echoes\">our 9\/10 review<\/a>, &#8220;masterfully woven together to produce an experience that feels simultaneously nostalgic and fresh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just hope that the release goes smoothly, this time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:142154 @ 1781201452 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be picking up one of these physicals? Chain your thoughts in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Deck13 Spotlight Earlier this year, Chained Echoes developer Matthias Linda announced that he was filing a lawsuit against distributor First Press Games after a two-year wait for his promised physical release. Well, good news! The dev has partnered with a new company, and the physical launch is back on track. Super Rare Games has [&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-137560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137560","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=137560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}