Revision History

Updated player review totals to mid-October, added the Golden Joystick Awards 2026 nominations, listed the Microsoft Store for PC and re-dated the post-launch content status; removed repeated body links

Corrected the timing of the post-launch additions

Added a link to the new Main Missions page beside the paragraph on the three story types

Added late-September player review figures and a summary of the post-launch additions

Added the confirmed launch-day figure of over 1 million units sold and the 10 million series cumulative total

Re-tensed the page for the shipped game, added launch state, difficulty levels, shipped region and story-type structure, critical reception, and the Gamescom Awards 2026 wins

Named the Oni Refuge as the stage added by the demo expansion

Added the late-August marketing beats and the expanded demo

Added a boss-encounter image with descriptive alt text

Updated the release date to September 4, 2026 (launch moved up three weeks) across the intro, development-status note, release table, and demo line

Added the new boss Dohatsu-Ten and the June 2026 game overview reveal to the story and pre-launch sections

Added a brief note that the demo passed one million downloads and that per-platform performance targets are now public, cross-linking the platforms page

Added Nintendo Switch 2 and the Microsoft Store to the confirmed platform list

Removed duplicate in-body wikilinks

Added Mount Oe stage, the Shuten Doji boss, and the Oni awakening shown in the release-date trailer

Updated release date to September 25, 2026 and added Epic Games Store as a PC channel

Tighten 3D-camera sentence to focus on Way of the Sword's own design

Add wikilinks to table cells (1 new links)

Removed redundant H1 heading from article body

Expanded overview with early-Edo setting, dev team size, Dokyo antagonist, Capcom Spotlight confirmation

Initial overview article (2026-04-22)