Confirmed
📅 Release date
29 October 2026, on PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam and the Epic Games Store), as a digital release; a boxed PS5 version follows in 2027. Built in Unreal Engine 5 by S-GAME, a studio based in Beijing.
🏯 The setting
The Phantom World: Ming dynasty China crossed with steampunk machinery, body modification, cyberpunk and horror. S-GAME calls the mix Kungfupunk.
🗡️ The premise
Soul is an elite assassin, framed for his master's murder and hunted by his former comrades. A duel with his blood brother Zuo Shang leaves him mortally wounded; a figure called the Flesh Sculptor revives him with a tainted heart that gives him sixty-six days to live.
🗺️ The world
Eight hand-painted maps that connect into one seamless world — S-GAME is explicit that it is neither an open world nor a linear run from start to finish. Pangzhen is the named destination city.
⚔️ The arsenal
30 primary weapons and 25 secondary phantom edges. Named categories include swords, spears, iron fists, hammers and ranged weapons such as the Tiger Cannon.
⏱️ Length
The estimates differ. TechRadar (January 2025) gave 20 to 30 hours for the main story plus about 20 of side content; GamingBolt (April 2026) up to 50 hours; Polygon (October 2026) quotes the director at 35 to 40; Vandal (11 October 2026) quotes him at 25 to 30 for experienced players.
📋 Wishlists
Over 3 million across all platforms, announced by S-GAME on 17 September 2026.
Not confirmed, and worth not assuming
❓ Endgame co-op
Promised once, in a Discord Q&A at the May 2023 reveal: multiplayer dungeons, a boss rush, a roguelike abyss. Not shown or repeated since, and the store pages list single-player only — "Single-player" on Steam, "1 player" on the PlayStation Store. Flagged by readers on Reddit the day the guide was shared, which is the fastest fact-check there is.
❓ How many bosses
S-GAME has kept the total under wraps. What is public is the handful shown in demos and State of Play, which this guide tracks and nothing more.
❓ The collectibles
Exploration rewards have been mentioned in hands-on coverage — permanent upgrades to the energy gauge, and stands that reveal hidden parts of the map — but S-GAME has not published names, counts or locations. Trackers for them go up when the game does.
❓ Other platforms
PS5 and PC are the announced platforms. PlayStation's release-date trailer ends on a notice that the game stays off other consoles for at least 12 months after launch, so no Xbox or Switch 2 version can come before late 2027, and none has been announced.
Still to verify
Cross-checked on 10 September 2026 against GamingBolt's State of Play deep dive, the playtime reports of PlayStation Universe and The Nexus, and GosuGamers, and re-checked on 1 October 2026 against Eurogamer.es, Vandal and Push Square, and on 22 October 2026 against the Steam and PlayStation Store listings, Gematsu, Push Square, TheGamer and GameWatcher. S-GAME has not published a boss total or any collectible names, counts or locations, so this guide prints none. What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it. The 3 million wishlists come from the reports of GamingBolt, 3DM and TwistedVoxel on S-GAME's announcement.