PS5 Launch Game The Pathless Gets Special Physical Edition

The Pathless, which is hitting PS5 on launch day, Nov. 12, alongside PS4, PC, and Apple Arcade, will be getting multiple physical editions, as well as a vinyl soundtrack release. It’s also now available to preorder digitally across all platforms.Publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Giant Squid have teamed up with iam8bit for one of the two physical releases for the game, available for preorder starting today and set for release on Dec. 8. They include:

• iam8bit Exclusive Edition, which bundles a physical edition of the game, six art cards, a poster, and reversible exclusive cover art

• PlayStation 5 physical edition, featuring the six art cards

The former can be preordered via iam8bit, while the physical PS5 edition can be bought from various retailers via Skybound Games.

Additionally, Annapurna and iam8bit have collaborated for a vinyl soundtrack for The Pathless, featuring Journey and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate composer Austin Wintory’s score. The vinyl includes 2 xLP gatefold jacket, cleansed blue and cursed red vinyl, album art by Elaine Lee, mastering by Townsend Mastering, and can currently be preordered from iam8bit.

IGN recently went hands-on with a PC build of The Pathless and came away impressed by its mix of Journey, Breath of the Wild, and some new movement and combat ideas. We also learned a bit about how The Pathless will use PS5’s DualSense controller.

Jonathon Dornbush is IGN’s Senior News Editor, host of Podcast Beyond!, and PlayStation lead. Talk to him on Twitter @jmdornbush.