Last October, the Switch received a brand new party game based on the universe of Shaun the Sheep. Called Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition, it's available as we speak on the eShop for £8.99.
Today, Greenlight Games has announced that it's producing a 'budget' physical boxed edition, set to launch in the UK on 1st September. Impressively, it'll only cost you £9.99 should you want to pick up a copy, which is not only very close to the digital price, but actually one of the cheapest RRPs for a physical Switch game we've ever seen.
If you're a collector who's intrigued by the low price point, check out this official description to see whether or not the game might be for you:
Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through underground caverns, negotiating the busy streets of London and teleporting through outer space all in search of the green, green grass of home.
Let's Ewe This!
Overcome the fiendishly challenging puzzles by working as a flock with new multiplayer features, using each sheep’s unique abilities to solve challenges and shove, leap, squeeze and swim through underground tunnels, abandoned mineshafts - and even evade the guards at Buckingham Palace.All new multiplayer Baaa-tle
A brand new suite of action-packed, Shaun the Sheep movie themed party games bring some extra-terrestrial chaos to the farm with a visit to the Farmageddon theme park where you can compete with family and friends in a series of madcap fairground games hosted by Shaun’s new alien pal Lu-La, who has crash-landed near Mossy Bottom Farm.Lovingly Lamb-made animation
Brought to you by award winning animation studio Aardman the game features a beautiful hand-painted and traditionally animated art style, spectacular environments and endearing character animation.
What do you think? Fancy securing another red spine for your shelf for a tenner? Let us know if you're tempted in the comments.
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Is this a pre-emptive article that will end up being a code in a box?
So where's the physical cartridge tax then eh?! Just a big fat lie!? 😝
Why would you ever pay for this? They are free flash games and have been for years.
Could this be a sign that the overhead cost of Switch cards has come down? Makes me think that there’s no excuse for a “Switch tax” that makes physical games on Switch more expensive than games on other platforms.
As a big Shaun fan, I have had this on my wish list since it launched. However, physical doesn't interest me in that I am too lazy to load cartridges.
That said, the economics of this is interesting . . .
If it's genuinely a game cart in a box that requires no downloads, I'll entertain it for a tenner.
It could be easy to just buy the cheapest possible cart to function as a license, and then require a download for the actual game data.
Missed a great opportunity for a pun there: Don’t you mean «Sheepest» physical edition?
@okimoki because people do have kids. Unwrap a physical game do matter a lot for small kids, specially if a character they love is on the cover (it's safer too as you are not putting them on internet).
And, think about it, some adults often buys character based dolls (that obviously do no include any game) and nobody cares, so why should you care about people buying a physical video game?
The price makes it tempting, but this would just end up taking shelf space and nothing else. Haven't get enough time to get through the games I actually want to play, let alone the "It's probably rubbish but I'll give it a go at that price" games.
Baaaa-gain!
I came hear just to say this and am shocked nobody has beat me to it.
If they can make putting this game on a cartridge worthwhile for them then I'd like to know wtf the likes of Wolfenstein/Doom/Bioshock/Borderlands/Alien Isolation/GRID Autosport wouldn't.
Huh.... I have nothing to say.
Made my day. Will have this on the shelf for sure!
Edit: Nevermind, it's a code-in-a-box. Despite my disdain for limited publishers, I kinda wish one of them had nabbed the rights to this
I gotta say like others this sounds like James Pond. Which ended up being code in a box.
I'm sure it's a fun game, but I have to say this graphical style looks nothing like Aardman. I barely even recognised Shaun.
@Xiovanni So would I, I'd only be able to play it until December.
I read the title as creepiest physical editions and I was like “huh? It’s Shaun the sheep how can it be creepy?”
@Apportal That's so weird....I did the same exact thing!
No idea why...
@dugan Hey, do make sure to get at least one single physical game! That way you'll always have that cartridge slot filled and save some internal space to boot while still having that game always available on the system for you.
You would swear it'd be a minigame collection for that price, but it actually sounds like it has some actual potential. Interesting!
See? 2020 isn't that bad for Nintendo!
This is just the kind of Third Baaaarty Support the Switch needs 🤣🤣🤣
@thesilverbrick : Some publishers are just absolute A-holes for no justifiable reason. For example, the retail release of Wolfenstein Youngblood is on sale at the moment in Australia, and while the twin versions are now AU$19 (and include a Blu-ray disc), the Switch version, which is a mere code in a case, costs $10 more.
@Coach_A : My first thought. They'll do anything for clicks around here. I would LOVE to be proven wrong though as it would set an awesome precedent.
@BANJO baaaaaad pun 😏
@Yosher thanks friend, i actually do have about 12 physical games. It is just that over the 3 years with the switch, i think I am up to over 100 titles purchased and played. I like physical for games I know i will put in over 40 hours.
@Silly_G Not to mention the Switch version requires a massive download to even run, if I recall.
What about the rest of Europe? Oh right the moronic reporter that wrote this thing didn't bother asking that beforehand. Should've guessed that such a thing would be too much asked from a reporter working for this site.
I saw Farmageddon at the cinema with my youngest and enjoyed it. I quite like the series as well.
May download this tbh
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