Debuting alongside the pre-orders, the 11-minute trailer is packed with extended combat sequences featuring protagonist Soul using martial arts against waves of enemies, new boss fights, story cutscenes with key characters, and demonstrations of the game's "kungfupunk" combat system . The trailer also highlighted the game's Wuxia-inspired world design and ended with the Donnie Yen character reveal . S-GAME had previously teased the trailer would include "new story content, characters, combat, and something unexpected" .
Digital pre-orders are now live on the PlayStation Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store in two editions :
Standard Edition ($59.99 / £54.99 / €69.99)
Deluxe Edition ($69.99 / £64.99 / €79.99)
Phantom Blade Zero officially launches October 29, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) . This date reflects a 50-day delay from its originally planned September 9 release, announced by S-GAME CEO Soulframe Liang in June 2026 to allow more time for polish .
Sony and S-GAME confirmed a dedicated Phantom Blade Zero State of Play broadcast on August 17 at 7:00 p.m. PT / 10:00 p.m. ET (August 18 at 10:00 a.m. Beijing time / 11:00 a.m. JST) . The PlayStation Blog explicitly promises "nearly 20 minutes of thrilling new gameplay" — a deep dive into intricate combat systems, dynamic combat, and story elements that the 11-minute trailer only teased . The broadcast will stream on YouTube and Twitch .
S-GAME also confirmed that development is fully complete and the game has gone gold .
Earlier in the week (August 6), S-GAME told Push Square it was "still finalizing details" about the State of Play, leading to speculation it might be canceled . However, the official PlayStation Blog post on August 11 definitively locked in the date and runtime, so the broadcast is confirmed to proceed as announced .