Sega has issued a press release giving us more details about the upcoming PC version of Valkyria Chronicles. The game will be available as a digital download from select digital retailers for a price of £14.99/€19.99/$19.99, and will be launched on November 11, 2014. It will also include all the DLC that was available for the original PlayStation 3 game (Hard EX Mode, Edy’s Mission “Enter the Edy Detachment”, Selveria’s Mission “Behind Her Blue Flame” and Challenge of the Edy Detachment). And if that wasn’t enough value for money, you can also get a discount if you preorder the game from certain retailers. You get a 10% discount when pre-ordering from Steam, or as our friends at SEGAbits pointed out, even a 25% discount when pre-ordering at Get Games.
The Steam page also reveals some of the features that will be present in the game. Among those is of course full controller support, and also the Japanese audio track. Neither of those are a surprise given that its was originally a console game, and the PS3 version also supported dual audio. New however are the Steam achievements. Given how some people refused to buy the PS3 version because it didn’t support trophies, this will hopefully convince some people to buy the PC version. And lastly, there’s support for uploading your savegames to Steam Cloud. A few screenshots have also been released, showing the game at 1080P and also the Xbox360/Xbox One controller support (as you can see in the screenshot below).
The recommend specs are not particularly high, which makes sense given the game’s PS3 origins:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.8GHz (or equivalent)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (or equivalent)
Hard Drive: 25 GB available space
The game is currently at #17 in the Steam best sellers. While pre-ordering is always a bit of a risk (as we’ve seen with Aliens: Colonial Marines), this is one game where I didn’t hesitate to do so. We already know how good the game is from the PS3 version, and while we don’t know yet how much effort was put into the PC conversion, the discounted price is far from what you’d pay for a new console game. We hope the fans will join us in supporting the game, as this may be the last chance we’re going to get to convince Sega that the franchise remains viable in the western market.