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Two and a half years after its reveal at a PlayStation showcase, Phantom Blade Zero now has a release date. It’s September 9, 2026.
This news came alongside a brand new trailer for the game, which showed off more of the game’s story and combat. We get a look at Phantom Blade’s mysterious metal masked antagonist stealing a baby and doing some real flashy sword moves, followed by plenty of shots of the protagonist, seemingly a wanted man. He’s got some pretty swanky moves himself, highlighting further how cool Phantom Blade’s combat promises to be. There’s also a young woman who gives the hero a good luck charm, then turns into a weird hollow monster or something. Lots going on here.
We’ve seen Phantom Blade a number of times since its original announcement, both in the form of trailers and hands-on previews. In our most recent look at it this past October, we found the game to be delightfully difficult, with our previewer saying, “It never felt cheap; it just demanded more from me. In just over an hour of play, I was easily ten times the player I was when I started. It’s a feeling of achievement that is reserved for the very best action games on the planet. If the rest is anything like what I played at TGS, I feel like there’s a real chance that Phantom Blade 0 might be one of those games.”
Phantom Blade Zero is a wuxia action RPG by Chinese studio S-Game that follows Soul, an assassin framed for a murder trying to uncover the truth of what happened. It’s coming out in September for PC and PlayStation.
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Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to [email protected].
