
The retail edition will naturally allow access to future free updates as well.

"You deserve a full manual, to hold in your hot little shaking hands and pore over as you wait to get home!" "No 2-page inserts here," Yacht Clubs boasted on its blog. It will also include a full instruction manual. Shovel Knight's retail edition will contain the full game, its upcoming Plague of Shadows expansion, and a Challenge mode with more than 50 gauntlets for players to overcome. Not bad for a small team that raised $311,502 for the game on Kickstarter, even if that team was mostly comprised of former WayForward (Mighty Switch Force, BloodRayne: Betrayal) staff. That's over four times Yacht Club's original lifetime estimate of shifting 150K units. Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games noted its debut effort sold a staggering 700,000 copies. North Americans will receive it on 13th October, while the UK and Europe will have to wait until 16th October due to the whole Tuesday/Friday thing that dictates retail releases. Retro platformer Shovel Knight is getting a retail release this October on 3DS, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and PC.
