Great news for fans of Ori and the Blind Forest and those who prefer physical copies to digital ones, as Nordic Games has announced that they will be bringing the game to retail next month for Xbox One and PC. The game’s retail release will happen on June 14th.
Here’s what developer Moon Studios had to say about the retail release:
“Since we released Ori and the Blind Forest, we’ve received many mails, tweets and requests from fans asking for a boxed retail release, so we’re extremely pleased to finally make everyone’s wish come true. We hope that all of you will be pleased with what we’ve put together for this retail release of Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition. We can’t wait to finally see Ori and the Blind Forest on shelves and we once again want to thank all of our fans and everyone who supported Moon and Ori over the last few years – we’re deeply humbled and appreciative, thank you so much!”
The game will be getting two different retail releases when it launches next month, which will be a $19.99 standard version and a $29.99 limited version. Scroll down for details on both of them, with the standard edition pictured above and the limited edition pictured below.
Standard retail version:
- Premium Packaging
- Quickstart Guide
- Game DVD
- A3 Poster
Limited retail version:
- Steelbox
- Quickstart Guide
- Game DVD
- Audio-CD OST
- 2 Postcards
- 2 Double-Sided A3 Posters
As for what the Definitive Edition of the game brings to the table, there are new areas, abilities, story sequences, fast travel capabilites, added difficulty modes and more. We reviewed both the Xbox One and PC versions of the Definitive Edition, which you can check out by clicking here and here.
