iam8bit, in collaboration with Panic Inc. and House House, today announced that Untitled Goose Game’s first-ever physical boxed edition for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, as well as the game’s Vinyl Soundtrack, will release on September 29, 2020. The new boxed version, complete with exclusive collectible physical goodies for players, is available now for pre-order at retailers around the globe and Skybound.com. The “Lovely Edition”, (with premium recycled materials) is an iam8bit-exclusive version, and is also available for pre-order today on iam8bit.com.
To introduce more players to Untitled Goose Game beyond North America, including in Europe, Latin America, Australia/New Zealand and other territories, iam8bit has forged a strategic partnership with Skybound Games for global distribution of physical editions.
- The standard boxed edition of Untitled Goose Game (Switch $34.99; PlayStation 4 $29.99) will include:
- The game cartridge/disc for either Switch or PlayStation 4
- A Spring/Summer edition of the Plaza Catalogue: a 24-page retail catalogue featuring useful items and objects that a goose might enjoy collecting
- A 11″ x 17″ Village Map Poster, hand-illustrated by Melbourne-based artist and game developer, Marigold Bartlett
- An extra sticky official “No Goose” Sticker
- The iam8bit exclusive “Lovely Edition” of Untitled Goose Game (Switch $39.99; PlayStation 4 $34.99) will feature all of the above collectible goodies with an environmentally friendly twist:
- Nintendo Switch
- A 100% recyclable Outer Sheet, Booklet, and Foldout Poster
- Exclusive Reversible Coversheet
- Sugar-Based, Non-Toxic, No-Vinyl Sticker Pack-in
- Eco-friendly “Biolefin” shrink wrap
- PlayStation 4
- An innovative eco-friendly outer packaging made of 100% post-consumer material using Non-Toxic, 0% VOC inks
- A 100% recyclable Booklet, and Foldout Poster
- Sugar-Based, Non-Toxic, No-Vinyl Sticker Pack-in
- Eco-friendly “Biolefin” shrink wrap
- Nintendo Switch
- The Untitled Goose Game vinyl soundtrack will feature:
- Music by Dan Golding, adapted from Claude Debussy’s Préludes
- Unique “Double Groove” pressing, creating a random playback experience each time you listen, mimicking the dynamic, reactive nature of the in-game soundtrack
- Pressed on reclaimed vinyl (literally, grinding up old vinyl and melting it into new discs)
- 100% recycled jacket
- Eco-friendly shrink wrap called “Biolefin”
“We love physical games and vinyl. They’re not just cherished collectibles, but also cultural and archival artifacts,” said Amanda White and Jon Gibson, co-owners and co-creative directors of iam8bit. “We also recognize that we only have one planet, and over the last year, we’ve been diligent in developing better, eco-focused packaging and production techniques. Think of this as the ‘Alpha’ version of our ‘better for the planet’ packaging. Change doesn’t happen overnight, so we really wanted to start the conversation as a first step toward the goal of 100% eco-friendly packaging for physical games.”
Untitled Goose Game from Australian game developer House House lets players become a goose on the loose in an unsuspecting village. Players make their way around town, from peoples’ back gardens to the high street shops to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and generally ruining everyone’s day. Untitled Goose Game has received multiple awards since 2019 including recognition from BAFTA and the Golden Joystick Awards, as well as “Game of the Year” accolades in the Game Developers Choice Awards and 23rd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. To date the digital version of the game, which originally released in September 2019, has sold over one million copies.
