Editions and Availability

This page collects what has been confirmed about how to buy and play Valor Mortis, including its launch date, the platforms it ships on, its subscription and physical availability, and the storefront features listed for each version. Everything here reflects pre-launch information published ahead of the October 13, 2026 release and may be revised before the game ships.

Launch Date and Platforms

Valor Mortis launches on October 13, 2026, releasing simultaneously on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. The date was originally announced as September 24, 2026 and moved back roughly three weeks; the studio pointed to how crowded September had become and said the later slot also bought time to act on feedback from the public demo. See the Development page for the full timeline of that change.

Xbox Game Pass

Valor Mortis joins Xbox Game Pass on its release day rather than at some later point. The developer disclosed the arrangement in a June 2026 regulatory filing, describing an agreement between publisher Lyrical Games and Microsoft that puts the game into Game Pass at launch for players on PC, Xbox Series X and S, and Xbox Cloud. The same filing notes that the payment from Microsoft counts toward recouping the publisher's costs under the co-publishing deal, so the studio framed it as a clear positive for the game's overall commercial result.

The filing names PC, Xbox Series X and S, and Xbox Cloud rather than subscription tiers. As of September 13, 2026 the console product page carried no Game Pass badge and the game appeared in no published Game Pass catalogue list. The October 8 product page now lists upcoming subscription availability. Xbox Play Anywhere means a purchase covers the console and PC versions; achievements and cloud saves are also listed. The product is optimized for Xbox Series X and S, with 4K and HDR capability flags, and its single-player campaign does not require Xbox Live Gold. Subscription access depends on the plan and supported platform.

Digital editions and launch prices

On September 17, 2026, the studio announced digital launch prices for the base game and a Deluxe Edition. Digital purchases open at launch on October 13, 2026.

The story DLC has no published title or precise release date. Multiple free updates are also planned for the weeks and months after launch, separately from the paid content. The announcement does not name their individual features.

Boxed Edition

A physical edition is being sold alongside the digital versions. Pre-orders for the boxed release opened on June 10, 2026 at a higher recommended price than the one that now stands. It was revised on July 23, 2026, when the studio cut the recommended boxed price to 39.99 US dollars, amending the earlier announcement and stating that the change applies only to the physical edition. The decision was described as a joint one with the publishing partner following a review of market conditions. On August 19, 2026 the studio announced that the game had gone gold, which it explained meant the version destined for physical discs was ready for printing. No additional contents, bonuses, or collector's-edition tiers have been described for the boxed version so far.

The Physical Edition in Retail

Retail listings in several countries name Fireshine Games as the label behind the boxed edition, and a separate company as the Polish distributor. Neither name appears in any first-party statement or regulatory filing, so treat the physical partner as retailer-convergent rather than publisher-confirmed.

The prices those listings carry line up with the 39.99 US dollar recommendation rather than contradicting it:

One caution for anyone comparing listings: at least one retailer still displays a rating-pending placeholder, and at least one lists a console SKU that does not match the game's own platform list. Retail metadata lags and should not be read against the storefront listings.

Paid DLC and Post-Launch Support

On September 4, 2026 the developer disclosed an annex to its publishing agreement with Lyrical Games. Under it the publisher takes on the cost of producing and releasing paid downloadable content and of running post-launch support for the game, against a newly agreed schedule of milestones whose delivery and acceptance runs through October 4, 2027. The guaranteed financing the publisher provides rises by the cost of that DLC and of the specified post-launch work, and the money is recoupable against future sales under the same terms as the rest of the deal.

Two things follow from that filing. Paid DLC for Valor Mortis is committed and funded rather than merely hoped for, and the studio's support window is contractually scoped roughly a year past launch. What the filing does not do is name the DLC, describe its contents, or give it a date.

The same annex also provides for expanding the list of target platforms on which the game is planned to be available. As of September 13, 2026 no additional platform has been named: the official store listing, the official site, the console storefront listings and the studio's own Steam development posts all still describe PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S only.

The Free Demo

A free demo was available on PC from June 7, 2026 and was taken offline on September 8, 2026. It covered two levels: Chapter I: Revival, a reworked version of the pre-alpha playtest battlefield that teaches the fundamentals and closes on the General Lothaire fight, and Chapter VII, a later level built around crossing a ruined bridge toward a lighthouse using transmutation traversal. Chapter VII is also where the rapier, the musket and a shield Transmutation first became playable, and where corrupted villagers appeared as enemies.

The demo ran through Steam Next Fest in June 2026, was extended by two weeks after being listed among the event's most-played demos, and was then brought back for a second window from July 20 to August 7, 2026, staying up past that announced end date. Announcing the shutdown on September 4, 2026, the studio said the demo had stopped being representative of the full game's quality and polish, and that because the two demo levels were bespoke recreations rather than the shipping versions, the optimisation, balancing and bug fixes made since June could not simply be ported back into them. The Demo page records its contents, its three availability windows and its hotfix history in full.

PC Storefront Features

The PC listing describes a single-player game with achievements, cloud saves, and full controller support, including DualShock and DualSense pads. HDR output and family sharing are both listed, as are subtitle options and stereo and surround sound. The game is credited to One More Level as developer, with Lyrical Games as publisher and One More Level also credited as a co-publisher on the PC store page, matching the co-publishing agreement described in the studio's filings.

Languages

Fourteen languages are listed. English is the only one with full audio; the rest are supported through interface text and subtitles. The set covers English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, and Turkish. The console listing publishes thirteen rather than fourteen, omitting Ukrainian. Which of the two is right for the console build has not been stated.

Age Ratings

Board ratings are published on both the console listing and the PC storefront listing, and the two do not agree everywhere. The table below reproduces the console listing, which carries the fuller set. Where the PC listing differs, the difference is noted underneath.

The storefront's own content notice describes gameplay centred on combat in a brutal, war-torn landscape with violence present throughout. Ratings can still change before a game ships, so this table reflects the listing as it stood ahead of the October 13, 2026 launch.

Where the Two Listings Disagree

Two board entries differ between the console catalogue and the PC storefront as measured on September 13, 2026, and neither surface flags its own value as provisional.

Both platform holders take their board data from the same submissions, so a difference of this kind normally means one listing has not caught up with the other. Until the boards' own records settle it, treat both as reported rather than picking a winner.

Separately, the PC storefront auto-generates regional markers for Brazil, Germany and Indonesia. Those three carry a storefront-generated flag in the listing data and are not board decisions, so where they disagree with a board, the board is the one to go by. The Brazilian case is exactly that: the board rating is 14 and the storefront marker is 18.

The PlayStation listing showed a rating-pending placeholder from the American board as of September 13, 2026, which is a storefront artefact rather than a third opinion; the same board's Mature rating appears on both other listings.

What Is Not Confirmed

Several commercial details were still open as of September 13, 2026, measured across the PC storefront listing and its regional price data, the console catalogue entry, the PlayStation concept page, the official site and the studio's own regulatory filings and Steam development posts.

The September 13, 2026 table above records what was still unpublished at that date. The September 17 announcement has since settled digital launch pricing and the Deluxe Edition, and gives the major story DLC a 2027 release window. It has not supplied a title or exact date for that DLC.

Release times and local dates

The announced release date is October 13, 2026. The PlayStation product page lists October 13 at 17:00 UTC, which is October 14 at 00:00 in Bangkok. The local PC store display checked on October 8 also shows October 14, while the studio's announcements continue to say October 13. These are the published platform and local-store observations; the exact PlayStation clock should not be assumed to apply to PC or Xbox.