Phantom Blade Zero release date is October 29: price, the delay and PC requirements

Phantom Blade Zero release date and platforms

The Phantom Blade Zero release date is October 29, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and PC. RPG Site and Gematsu both report the PC release across Steam and the Epic Games Store, and Steam's own page lists the game as coming soon. Steam's store data shows October 28, which most likely reflects a time-zone rollover for US storefronts, so October 29 is the date to plan around.

The studio behind it is S-Game, a Chinese developer, and the game is a wuxia action RPG built on Unreal Engine 5, according to its Steam description. You play Soul, a warrior with sixty-six days left to live. We found no Xbox version announced in the sources we opened, so if you play on Xbox the answer today is that it is not confirmed.

Gematsu reported in August that S-Game said development on the game was now complete. That is a stronger signal than most pre-launch messaging, though it is the developer's statement, not an independent check.

Why Phantom Blade Zero was delayed from September 9

The original date was September 9, 2026. On June 2, S-Game announced a new date of October 29, a 50-day slip, according to RPG Site. The studio's reason was polish. Its statement, as quoted by RPG Site, read: "We do not want to release Phantom Blade Zero knowing there is still an opportunity to take it one step further."

RPG Site's report says the extra time went into character models, environments and visual quality across performance modes, and not only into ray tracing. A 50-day delay is short by modern standards and the date has held since, which is a better sign than a date that keeps moving. It also pushes the game into the busy final stretch of October, a month packed with releases ahead of GTA 6 on November 19.

Phantom Blade Zero price and editions

Steam lists the standard edition at $59.99 and the Digital Deluxe Edition at $69.99, matching RPG Site's report from August 12. Pre-orders opened on August 11, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. PT, alongside an 11-minute trailer, per Gematsu. Pre-order bonuses are an early unlock of the Treasure Basin accessory and the Legacy outfit, and RPG Site notes both can also be earned through in-game progression.

That makes $59.99 the real price of the game. It is a full-price action RPG from a first-time-at-this-scale studio, priced below the $69.99 standard many publishers use for blockbusters. If the Deluxe Edition's extras are not a draw, there is no reason to pay the extra $10.

Phantom Blade Zero PC requirements

The Steam page gives two tiers. Minimum is Windows 10 or 11, an Intel Core i7 8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 1660 6GB or Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB and DirectX 12, with a note that it targets 1080p and 30 fps with upscaling enabled. Recommended is a Core i5 10600K or Ryzen 5 5600X with a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB or Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB, aimed at 1440p and 60 fps with upscaling enabled.

Two things stand out. An SSD is required, and both tiers assume upscaling, which says a lot about how demanding an Unreal Engine 5 action game is on mid-range hardware. If your card is near the minimum line, plan on 30 fps and a lowered resolution.

Languages and store details worth checking before you buy

Steam lists full audio in English and Simplified Chinese, with text and interface support in French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, among others. If you are buying for a household that plays in another language, that list matters more than the trailer does.

The store also confirms two separate Steam purchase options, the standard game at $59.99 and the Digital Deluxe Edition at $69.99. Because the game launches on both Steam and the Epic Games Store, price and bonus details can differ by storefront. We only verified Steam, so check the Epic listing and the PlayStation Store separately before you pre-order there.

What we actually know about the game so far

The pitch is a fast, flashy wuxia action game with soulslike-style combat. Video Games Chronicle reports that martial arts actor Donnie Yen has been a creative consultant since 2023, bringing his martial arts and action filmmaking expertise to the combat design, and that he appears in the game as Mo Yuan, the father of protagonist Soul. S-Game released an 11-minute trailer on August 11 and held a gameplay-focused PlayStation State of Play on August 17.

S-Game founder and CEO Soulframe Liang said ahead of that showcase that the gameplay deep dive would introduce never-before-seen characters central to the story, as quoted by Video Games Chronicle. The 11-minute trailer, per the same outlet, showed combat on a moving wagon and fights against human and non-human opponents. That is a lot of marketing footage, and it shows what the studio wants to be judged on: movement, parries and boss fights.

What is still missing is the thing that matters most: independent play time with the final build. There are no review scores, and the game length has not been announced in anything we opened. Everything above comes from the developer, store pages and previews, so treat the hype with the usual discount.

Our take: should you pre-order Phantom Blade Zero?

Wait for reviews unless you are a die-hard fan. The date has been stable, the studio says development is done and the price is reasonable, but a delay for polish is a promise, not a result. Steam's pre-orders are fully refundable under its usual rules until you play, though we have not re-checked those terms for this title.

The practical plan: check your hardware against the requirements above, watch for reviews from October 29 and decide with real scores in hand. With Castlevania: Belmont's Curse arriving two weeks earlier on October 15, there is no shortage of action games to play in the meantime.