Thunderful Publishing and Image & Form have confirmed SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech will be released next month on 25th April, after its launch date was revealed ahead of schedule last week. The game will be exclusive to the eShop "for the foreseeable future" and will set players back $24.99 / €24.99 / £22.49.
This latest entry in the series is Image & Form's first RPG and is switching things up with card-based battles, where you must build, craft and upgrade your heroes decks. You'll lead a party of aspiring heroes on an exciting quest filled with treasure, dragons, vivid worlds, magic, knights in shining armour and turn-based combat.
This is what the studio's CEO Brjánn Sigurgeirsson had to say about this upcoming release:
“The SteamWorld community has asked us to make an RPG for a long time, so I’m really happy and satisfied that we’re delivering such a polished title way sooner than anyone expected. Since we announced in January we’ve watched the growing excitement among gamers, press and content creators. I’m confident that fans of RPGs and previous SteamWorld games will adore SteamWorld Quest because it’s an absolute gem. We will keep the momentum going via our website and social media channels until the release and beyond."
Will you be downloading this game next month? Tell us below.
[source twitter.com, via nintendo.com]
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So keen. Quite a lot of good stuff coming out in April but I'll be playing this day one.
April, here to kill all Nintendo fans wallets for the rest of the year! What is up with April anyways geez. Oh, day one for me!
Dang it April! At this point I’m ready for April Fools Day to come and say, “Half these release dates were jokes, here’s the real ones,” because I mean I already have to pick and choose what games I get but it really is hurting for that month, there’s too much I want!
Couldn’t this game be in May? Please?
Nintendo and partners are going full-on in the next fiscal year . I don’t think it’s a coincidence jan-march was packed light and for instancd Fire Emblems got delayed a few months. A lot of good stuff coming in april and in the months afterwards!
Day one for me, enjoyed all other SteamWorld games, so I have faith this game will turn out great too!
Um... I'm already interested in 4 other games that come out in April. How come everything comes out on those same two weeks?
Nice. Will wait for a sale (like I do with basically all digital games) but looking forward to it eventually.
Dang April, calm down. Mechstration(?) Force, Monster Slayers, Mortal Kombat, Katana Zero, Dragons Dogma, and now this. Thats just my must haves too.
man this has to make 10+ games I want from April releases... Im worried about my wallet AND my free time.
I’m not usually too keen on card battlers, but I’m a huge fan of Image & Form and the Steamworld universe, so I’ll probably snag it right quick anyway. Chances are, I’ll probably like it enough to finish it, but if I don’t I’m okay supporting one of my favorite indie devs with a purchase.
I'll get it when it goes on sale. It seems like a really cool game.
Buying this as soon as it's up for preorder, I bloody love all the Steamworld games!
Need an Image & Form Direct to give us some sort of features run through and tutorial. I need convincing that this card mechanic is for me to make this a day one purchase.
In opposite of some others here I highly appreciate the card system and don't need a story. I was always one of the game mechanics over story side of a gamer.
This is a no-brainer for me. I suggested it coming out much later this year. Now I can't wait!
IGN’s excellent Nintendo Voice Chat podcast had one of the devs from Image and Form on their show last week, and honestly he made me think this game was still a ways off.
Cool to see it’s coming out in April! Big surprise, haha.
@imgrowinglegs Yes, I thought the same thing, I think he said something like later than you want, sooner than you think. I thought it would be later in the year.
But, from what the dev said, it sounds like more of a steam world game than a card game. Yes, there are card mechanics, but there is more than just that. Also, if i remember he said it was more story driven than previous steamworld games.
Day one for me, I just hope I can catch up on my back log.
Cool way sooner than expected from their recent talks. I will get my hands on it ahead of release at egx rezzed in a couple of weeks! (But in April I will probably only play FF X and XII...)
Two days after Dragon’s Dogma? You’re killing me, April.
And yes, of course I’ll get both.
Ugh, if you look at paycheck to paycheck this months games for me are
Ff7
Yoshi
Ff10 10-2
Cuphead
Atleast only this game in april-may games (thank jesus)
Are card games fun?
Actually looks really nice. But why is the mushroom guys out of dark souls in this game?
Oh.... I thought it was an RPG. Guess I'll skip this one finally
@Yrreiht
It is an rpg.
@Skalgrim I should have phrased myself better. While it is an RPG in some form, I'm just really not into card mechanics. I can never find the right combination of cards or build my decks correctly. I'd much rather have a standard RPG like FF6 or Dragon Quest, but that mostly my personal preference.
Zodiac Age is just a few days after this, so I'm gonna have to wait on this one.
They said that the physical edition would arrive later this year, so I'm going to wait for it.
@Mathieu_B That's what I'm confused about. The tweet in this article states exclusive to eShop for the foreseeable future. But I also remember them saying shortly after release they would have a physical. Seems like contradictory statements
I'm in just for the soundtrack
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