Kungfupunk is an unofficial English field manual for Phantom Blade Zero, an action game from S-GAME, due on 29 October 2026.
Unlock countdown, PlayStation Store time
02:00 UTCThursday 29 October 2026
Unlock time passed. As listed by the PlayStation Store.
Release Date Announcement Trailer, 0:39 · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
The unlock instant in the PlayStation Store listing is 02:00 UTC on Thursday 29 October 2026.
In Los Angeles that is 19:00 on 28 October; in Beijing and Hong Kong 10:00 on 29 October; in Tokyo 11:00 on 29 October; in Sydney 13:00 on 29 October. With JavaScript on, this box also shows that moment in your own time zone.
This countdown uses the moment in the PlayStation Store listing (Store data). Steam shows the date 28 October 2026 for the US but has not published an hour, and no Epic Games Store hour is recorded here. The city table is on the release time page.
Above: a long-haired figure holds an infant in one arm and a red blade in the other, in a burning courtyard at night. Frame from the official Release Date Announcement Trailer (December 2025), Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, ayGk_auu5tk, 0:39 · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
The wall
The director has said the game has at least 50 bosses. Press-reported Seventeen are named so far, in demo, trailer, preview and official video coverage. Each portrait opens that boss’s entry: attacks, counters and where to watch the fight.
Official Steam announcement and its Chinese version, for Mó Yuan. Press-reported IGN and CGMagazine, for the English names of the Chief Disciple and Peng Meng. Unconfirmed GamerBraves, for Huangxing, as excerpted in search results. The source of each Chinese name is on the bosses page.
Start here
Kungfupunk, often written “kung fu punk”, is S-GAME’s own name for the style of Phantom Blade Zero: in the studio’s words, a world “where traditional Kungfu collides with steampunk machinery and body modification”. Official State of Play gameplay deep dive, 6:08
No, according to its director: Soulframe Liang calls Phantom Blade Zero “neither a Soulslike game nor a traditional action game”. Press-reported Liang’s developer letter, June 2025, quoted by Insider Gaming and Push Square
No on all three at launch. Phantom Blade Zero is not an open world game but eight hand-painted maps joined into one world; its store pages list it as single-player only; and on 29 October 2026 it comes to PS5 and PC only, with other consoles held back for at least 12 months. Official State of Play subtitles. Store data PlayStation Store and Steam, read 14 October 2026. Press-reported trailer fine print, via Push Square.
Phantom Blade Zero and Black Myth: Wukong are two single-player Chinese action RPGs from different studios. Store data PlayStation Store listings for Phantom Blade Zero and Black Myth: Wukong, both “1 players”, read 14 October 2026
The release date is 29 October 2026. The PlayStation Store gives one unlock moment, 02:00 UTC on 29 October. Official for the date; Store data for the unlock moment
The manual
Some questions people ask before launch have short answers now. Others have no answer yet, and we say so rather than guess. Each page below is written and sourced, and the list grows as pages are added.
Key facts
| Release date | 29 October 2026, moved from 9 September 2026. Official Steam announcement, 3 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| US date | 28 October, per the PlayStation Blog footnote: “October 28 in the US and select regions”. Official PlayStation Blog, 17 August 2026 |
| Platforms | PS5, and PC on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Xbox and Nintendo Switch 2 are not announced. Official Platforms |
| Price, US | $59.99 Standard · $69.99 Digital Deluxe, on Steam and the PlayStation Store. Store data All regions |
| Chinese title | Phantom Blade Zero影之刃零 Official The Steam store lists the game under both names. |
| Length | About 25 to 30 hours, according to the director. Press-reported Gamersky, citing a DualShockers interview with Liang |
| Bosses | At least 50, the director has said; every weapon comes from a boss. Press-reported 17 named so far |
| Difficulty | Wayfarer, Hellwalker and Sixty-Six Days Official PlayStation Blog; also Pathbreaker. Official State of Play difficulty menu, 11:10; Press-reported GamingBolt |
| Demo | None announced A store listing leaked in August and was pulled. Press-reported Push Square |
The unlock instant in the PlayStation Store listing is 02:00 UTC on Thursday 29 October 2026. In Los Angeles that is 19:00 on 28 October; in Beijing and Hong Kong 10:00 on 29 October; in Tokyo 11:00 on 29 October; in Sydney 13:00 on 29 October.
It was moved from 9 September 2026 in a Steam announcement, “A Letter From Creative Director”, dated 3 June 2026.
PS5, and PC on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Xbox and Nintendo Switch 2 are not announced.
The director has said the game has at least 50 bosses.
Kungfupunk is a reference, not the official site and not a fan forum. This site gathers what is confirmed about Phantom Blade Zero in English, shows where each fact came from, and says plainly when nothing has been announced yet. Each fact carries one of four marks, and each mark links to its source:
How facts, seals and dates are handled
We expect the detailed guides for this game to appear in Chinese first. From launch day, guides here will be translated from those community sources, and each page will name the source it used. Until then, pages stay short and limited to what the sources support.
A page on this site is never longer than its evidence. If a fact cannot be pointed to, it does not appear.
