The date shown in the official research
The Steam store capture repeats October 29, 2026 in the release-date field and in the coming-soon section. That makes it the clearest date in the supplied source set. The same capture also shows pre-purchase availability, which supports the conclusion that the date was being used as an active store launch date when the research was collected.
A release date is not the same as a universal unlock clock. The research does not give a time zone, preload start, review embargo, or country-by-country unlock table. Players should therefore treat October 29 as confirmed while marking the exact hour and any regional variation as pending confirmation.
Could the date still change?
The supplied files contain search phrases about a possible delay, but those searches are demand signals rather than evidence of a delay. No official delay announcement appears in the collected source material. The correct current answer is October 29, 2026, with any later change requiring a new official announcement.
The safest verification path is the exact Steam page preserved in the research and the recorded official media video. Social posts, retailer placeholders, and search snippets may repeat older dates without context. If a new date appears outside those sources, it should remain pending confirmation until the official store or publisher records it.
Confirmed game identity
The supplied Steam research identifies Phantom Blade Zero as an Action RPG developed by S-GAME Studio and published by S-GAME Publishing. Its official tags include Action RPG, Martial Arts, Action, Wuxia, and Dark Fantasy. The same source says the game is powered by Unreal Engine 5 and presents its visual identity as kungfupunk.
Kungfupunk is described through a specific combination of golden-age wuxia cinema and punk fantasy. The recorded visual ingredients include martial arts, cold steel, mechanical prosthetics, crumbling industrial ruins, traditional Chinese aesthetics, and modern rock music. These are confirmed presentation details, while player-created labels that do not appear in the official material should be treated as interpretations rather than facts.
Release and platform context
The captured Steam page gives October 29, 2026 as the release date and names PC through Steam as a supported platform. The supplied State of Play video is published as a PS5 Games presentation, supporting PlayStation 5 availability in the collected material. An Xbox version, Nintendo Switch 2 version, or Game Pass release is not confirmed by the supplied sources and therefore remains pending confirmation.
The Steam capture lists single-player play, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, full controller support, and fifteen supported languages. English and Simplified Chinese are recorded with interface, full audio, and subtitle support, while the visible extract also lists French, German, and Spanish interface and subtitle support. Store features can change before launch, so this page reports the captured research rather than predicting later platform policy.
Story and world details that are confirmed
The main character is Soul, a warrior framed for murdering his master and left with a devastating wound to the heart. A mysterious healer restores his life under a fatal condition: Soul has sixty-six days to live. His journey through the Wulin centers on finding a cure and unraveling the conspiracy that has trapped the martial world.
The State of Play transcript describes eight hand-painted Chinese ink-wash maps that connect into one handcrafted world. It explicitly says Phantom Blade Zero is neither an open-world game nor a strictly linear adventure from beginning to end. Hidden enemies, side quests, rare treasures, story clues, passages, mechanisms, villages, valleys, lakes, and shadowed territories are all part of the recorded exploration description.
Source limits and pending information
The supplied files contain exact URLs for the Steam store page and the State of Play gameplay deep dive on YouTube. They mention an official website and Discord entry but do not preserve the actual URLs, so those links remain marked pending confirmation on this site. Raw search phrases in the keyword file show what players want to know, but a search phrase is not evidence that a demo, edition, platform, or feature exists.
No verified redemption code appears anywhere in the supplied research, so the site displays “暂无” instead of creating one. Unsupported prices, release formats, cast members, edition contents, demo dates, and platform claims are also marked pending confirmation. This evidence rule is intentionally strict because an incomplete answer is more useful than a confident but invented detail.