Unlock day is 8 October 2026 on Steam, Deck, Switch 2, and PlayStation 5.
A launch-window screenshot of a puzzle room.
Unlock day is Thursday 8 October 2026 on Steam, Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. The date was set on 18 August, and some regions open on Friday 9 October. The base price, set on 24 September, is $29.99. On the morning of 8 October the game was still marked coming soon, so the date can be public before the buy button opens. Regions do not all unlock at the same minute.
Windows is supported. Mac and Linux are not. Deck is Verified. The US Switch 2 price is $29.99, and PLAYISM handles the Japanese digital release. The PlayStation 5 edition is still a concept, with no add-on. Arc Games and Gamirror Games publish. Thekla, Inc. develops, and Jonathan Blow directs. A full Chinese voice-over was in production for launch. English is the only language marked for full audio, and the Chinese recording does not change that on its own.
Road to unlock
Announced, with PC planned for 2026.
Platforms besides PC were still unannounced. The scale that day is more than one thousand puzzles and hundreds of hours.
A new overview trailer.
This is the spring overview, months before the date, the price, and the console pair were fixed.
Steam Next Fest demo opened on app 4597250.
The window ran from 15 June at 10am PT through 22 June at 10am PT, and play was later extended through 26 June.
The demo gained a public-testing branch.
No password. The branch adds a Very Performance preset, separate volume sliders, vsync, a frame cap, antialiasing, and dynamic text language. Shader model 6.5 is not required.
PlayStation 5 joined the announced platforms.
The demo was still available, and demo progress carries into the Steam release.
China co-publishing and a Chinese voice-over were announced.
Gamirror Games co-publishes in China. Gemiuster was recording a full Chinese voice-over aimed at launch.
Release date set for 8 October 2026.
The platforms for that date are Steam, Steam Deck, Switch 2, and PlayStation 5.
Price set at $29.99, with three 10 percent bundles.
The bundles pair the game with Mewgenics, with Animal Well, and with the original soundtrack. The soundtrack is also sold separately.
Review embargo set for 6:00 AM PT the day before unlock.
Reviews open Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 6:00 AM PT. A Switch 2 review falls inside that window.
Stated unlock day, or 9 October by region.
On the morning of 8 October the game was still marked coming soon, so the date and the buy button were not the same event.
Price and bundles
Offer
Discount
Includes
Base game
None
The full game at $29.99
Mewgenics bundle
10 percent
This game and Mewgenics
Animal Well bundle
10 percent
This game and Animal Well
Soundtrack bundle
10 percent
The game plus the soundtrack, which is also sold alone
Platforms
Windows on Steam
Launch platform
Minimum spec is 64-bit Windows 10, an Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD Ryzen R5 1600, 8 GB of memory, a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or Radeon RX 580 or Intel Arc A380, DirectX 12, and 14 GB of space. Recommended spec steps up to an i5-9600K or Ryzen R5 3600, 16 GB, a GeForce GTX 2070 Ti or Radeon RX 5700 or Intel Arc B5700, still on DirectX 12 and 14 GB. The build is single-player, with full controller support, DualSense, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. Achievements are included. Mac and Linux are unsupported.
Steam Deck
Steam Deck Verified
Handheld play is plug in and play, with the interface and controls tailored for the Deck. It shares the 8 October unlock with the Windows build. Demo progress carries into this Steam release, which is the practical reason to have kept a Next Fest save.
Nintendo Switch 2
Launch platform
The US price is 29.99 USD. PLAYISM handles the Japanese digital release. A Switch 2 review follows the 7 October embargo, and that review is separate from buying the game.
PlayStation 5
Launch platform
PlayStation 5 joined the platforms in the July overview and shares the 8 October date. The edition is still a concept, with no add-on. DualSense is supported on the Windows version as well.
Languages on Steam
Language
Full audio
English
Yes
French
Not marked
Italian
Not marked
German
Not marked
Spanish - Spain
Not marked
Japanese
Not marked
Korean
Not marked
Portuguese - Brazil
Not marked
Russian
Not marked
Simplified Chinese
Not marked
Traditional Chinese
Not marked
How to read unlock day
Two clocks are easy to mix up. The embargo clock is 6:00 AM PT on 7 October, which governs reviews, including a Switch 2 review. The unlock clock is 8 October, sliding to 9 October for some regions. If the game still says coming soon on the morning of the 8th, the date has not been missed. The purchase button has not opened yet. Price and bundles were already public on 24 September, so the number $29.99 does not depend on that button.
The demo is a separate app, 4597250, from the full game, 499170. By launch week the demo could no longer be installed. Demo progress carries into the Steam release. Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 are not part of that save promise. If you are starting on a console, a demo file stays a Steam save until that promise is extended. Buy the full game as app 499170. The June demo and the October game do not share an install.
Text languages and the Chinese recording
English has full audio. French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese are interface languages without full audio marked. A full Chinese voice-over was being recorded for launch. That recording does not, by itself, mean Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese already have full audio. Gemiuster is the studio on that recording, and Gamirror Games is the China co-publisher. You can read the interface in any of those languages, including Spanish as spoken in Spain and Portuguese as spoken in Brazil. Spoken performances, for now, are the English cast.
The demo’s public-testing branch already let you change text language at runtime, and it added separate volume sliders, vsync, a frame cap, antialiasing, and a Very Performance preset. Those controls are on the July demo branch. They are not a promise that every launch platform ships the same preset names. Shader model 6.5 is specifically not required on that branch.
A second launch-window view of the world’s geometry.Capsule art for the four-world puzzle adventure.
Questions
Why is the game still marked coming soon on 8 October?
The unlock is 8 October 2026, or 9 October in some regions, and the game was still marked coming soon on the morning of the 8th. The date, the $29.99 price, and the three bundles were already set in August and September. Coming soon on that morning means the purchase button had not opened, not that the date was withdrawn. Check the region if your copy flips a day later.
Does the Chinese voice-over mean full audio on Steam?
No. Only English is marked for full audio. Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese are interface languages without that mark. A full Chinese voice-over was being recorded toward launch by Gemiuster, with Gamirror Games co-publishing in China. A recording in production is not the same as full audio already in the game. Right now only English is flagged for full audio.