The long-awaited final form of Kentucky Route Zero is getting a physical edition on Switch.

The cartridge version of Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition is already available for pre-order on iam8bit and is planned to ship early in the third quarter of 2020. In line with the secretive development of the game, not many details have been revealed about what will actually come with this limited edition other than vague selling points like: “Definitely a Physical Game for Nintendo Switch” and “Includes Secret Components, Exclusively Available Only @ iam8bit.”

There is also a phone number available for those looking for more details, 1-858-943-6579. When dialed, the number treats callers to a bit of dialog about the Department of the Real and some hold music, possibly more if you stay on the line long enough.

First Kickstarted in 2011 Kentucky Route Zero is an adventure game about an especially difficult furniture delivery, to put it in the most reductive way possible. The game is actually a magical-realist examination of the struggles of working-class people in the United States. The game shifts focus between multiple characters but the central figure in the story is Conway, a truck driver tasked with making a delivery on the seemingly nonexistent Route Zero.

Kentucky Route Zero is also the last of the great wave of episodic games, of which the most well-known example is Telltale’s The Walking Dead. The TV edition getting this limited edition is a collection of five episodes, referred to as acts by the game in theatrical style, of Kentucky Route Zero that have been coming out since 2013.

Act four of the game was released in 2016 revealing one of the problems of the episodic model in general, which is that an episodic game’s development needs to keep pace with hardware development. Development of Kentucky Route Zero began before the Xbox One and PS4 were released, acts one through four were released pre Nintendo Switch and PC hardware has been constantly evolving the whole time. The challenge of hitting this kind of moving target in production is one reason many of the games began in this episodic boom suffered as some players tired of visual styles that looked outdated. Outside of some performance hiccups on the Switch, Kentucky Route Zero dodges the effects of this problem is some clever ways.

But this is turning into a review so let’s stop there and remember that eventually this year Kentucky Route Zero will come in a cool box with some art, probably.

Source: Nintendo and iam8bit