Bringer has a longer public history than its international presentation suggests. It debuted in China on 5 August 2023, three years before the international reveal, and the concept site that introduced it to the rest of the world in August 2026 is a late stage international introduction rather than an early tease. This page lays out the dated sequence.
Timeline
Date | Event |
|---|---|
5 August 2023 | First promotional video, uploaded on the 5th, with coverage dated 5 and 6 August. The public debut of the game, in China. The trailer carried a joint development credit naming both 墨界游戏 and 艺画开天 |
Between 2023 and 2025 | The project was substantially rebuilt, including a revision of its own in world terminology |
17 October 2025 | Recruitment opens for the first closed test, EP01. Qualifications go out from 31 October |
17 October 2025 | The first worldview concept video is published on the same day as recruitment, pre registration opens, and 澄境星壹 is named as the Mainland publisher. On 20 October an in game story scene featuring 蕾娜 follows |
July 2026 | Playable demo at BW2026 in Shanghai, 10 to 12 July, hall 4.1H booth 4A47. Domestic playable debut |
6 August 2026 | Recruitment opens for the second closed test, EP02, with a new promotional video captioned as recorded in game, the first official gameplay footage |
7 August 2026 | The international concept site content window opens. Staging only, one week ahead of the public reveal. Not itself a public reveal |
13 August 2026 | International reveal. The reveal trailer is published in four language versions |
14 August 2026 | The studio announcement overview circulates internationally, naming the platforms, the engine and the coming demo showing |
26 to 30 August 2026 | Early hands on demo at a games event in Cologne, Germany. International playable debut |
28 August 2026 | The EP02 closed test begins at 11:00, with an opening notice that names the story milestone 海乱之礁, three modes and the characters 绯云, 明泫 and 逻华 |
13 September 2026 | First version of this wiki |
7 to 11 November 2025 | The EP01 technical confidential test runs on PC, from 11:00 on the 7th to 16:00 on the 11th |
24 August 2026 | EP02 recruitment closes at 16:00 |
26 August 2026 | EP02 qualifications sent from 14:00; pre download opens |
30 August 2026 | First hands on coverage of the Cologne demo is published, naming the characters Nyx and Luohua |
4 September 2026 | The EP02 closed test ends at 23:59 |
21 September 2026 | State of the record used throughout this wiki |
16 to 17 October 2025 | The official community account's first posts: the motto, the exposure video, and the pre registration and EP01 recruitment notice |
17 October to 5 November 2025 | The character, world and lore post series begins: 蕾娜, 圣宫, 逻华, 万乘国, 岩山城, 艾露, 达卡斯, 明泫, 马克西姆, 莉莉娅, 珂林, 蛋波 and 净海 |
24 October 2025 | EP01 recruitment closes at 16:00 |
9 June 2026 | The studio announces its BW2026 appearance for 10 to 12 July in Shanghai |
8 to 29 August 2026 | Second wave of official posts: the Thalastrider, 海巡兽, 陆岛, 逻华 and 拾三 entries, and the 履海知途 system notes on navigation, combat, the 海巡兽 奥璐璐 and the 隆舶 home |
The 2023 Debut
The first promotional video appeared in early August 2023 and is the game's real starting point in public. It established the studio and its development subsidiary as the team, and it used terminology the game has since abandoned: the protagonist was 傀人 and the player was addressed as 凡星. Material from this period is still in circulation and is best treated as historical. See Development.
The 2025 Re Presentation
In October 2025 the game returned with a worldview concept video, a first closed test that ran from 7 to 11 November, and a named Mainland publisher. This is the point at which the current vocabulary appears, with 海履者 replacing the two 2023 terms, and it is where the record of the game as it exists today effectively begins. The publisher named at this point, 澄境星壹, is a subsidiary of the developer. See YHKT.
The 2026 International Reveal
The international reveal landed on 13 August 2026 with a reveal trailer running two minutes and forty eight seconds, published in four language versions covering English, Japanese, Korean and traditional Chinese. The studio announcement overview followed, carrying the platform list, the engine and the plan for a hands on demo showing later that month.
A note on one date that is easy to get wrong: the international concept site's content window opened on 7 August 2026, a week before the reveal. That is a staging date belonging to the site's own scheduling, not a public reveal, and it should not be presented as the game's announcement date. The announcement is 13 August 2026, with coverage on the 13th and 14th.
The trailer is a cinematic. It contains no gameplay, no interface and no on screen text beyond its own narration lines, which are reproduced on the Setting and Story page. As of 21 September 2026 each of the game's four official video channels carries exactly one video and no devlogs or developer diaries of any kind.
What Has Not Happened
As of 21 September 2026 there has been no release date announcement, no launch window announcement, no business model announcement, no overseas publisher announcement and no gameplay showcase on any official video channel. The first official character names arrived in the EP02 test notice of 28 August 2026 rather than in a reveal. See Release and Platforms and Closed Tests and Public Demos.