Action RPG · S-GAME Studio

A parry window is a handful of frames. Some of them are already gone.

Phantom Blade Zero unlocks worldwide at one moment on 28 October 2026, 19:00 Pacific — 29 October in Europe and Japan — with no edition playing early. S-GAME's Kungfupunk action RPG is built on Unreal Engine 5 around parry and dodge windows measured in single frames. Run the parry bench on this page to see the number that actually decides whether you land a short window, which is not your average reaction but your spread.

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Launch moment: Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 02:00 UTC, the same instant everywhere. One instant worldwide: 28 October at 19:00 Pacific, which is 29 October at 03:00 in central Europe and 11:00 in Japan. Steam and the US PlayStation Store show 28 October because both render that same moment on a Pacific clock.

Parry bench

How wide a window your hand actually needs

Parry-led combat is judged in frames, and the number that decides whether you land a short window is not your average reaction — it is your spread. This bench measures both on your own screen, keyboard and hands, and feints at you so it cannot be beaten by mashing.

Press Begin, then strike the moment the blade flashes.

Pad

Median—

In frames—

Best—

Spread—

Swings0

Breaks0

6 frames—

10 frames—

15 frames—

The bars are the share of your own swings that would have landed inside a six-, ten- and fifteen-frame window at 60 fps, measured from your best swing. Spread is what decides them: a tight hand at 220 ms beats a loose hand at 190 ms on a short window. Roughly one swing in five is a feint that never flashes — pressing on one counts as a break, because in the game it is a whiffed parry and a hit taken. Phantom Blade Zero's own windows are not published, so nothing here claims to be them.

Runs entirely in this tab. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and no claim is made about how Phantom Blade Zero itself will handle your input — the game is not out. What it measures is your own hardware, which is the half you can fix before launch day.

Unlock time

When Phantom Blade Zero unlocks where you are

One instant, read on eleven clocks. In 3 regions the local calendar still says a different day when it happens.
Where	Local time	Local date
US PacificAmerica/Los Angeles	19:00	Wed 28 Oct — the day before
US EasternAmerica/New York	22:00	Wed 28 Oct — the day before
BrazilAmerica/Sao Paulo	23:00	Wed 28 Oct — the day before
UKEurope/London	02:00	Thu 29 Oct
Central EuropeEurope/Berlin	03:00	Thu 29 Oct
MoscowEurope/Moscow	05:00	Thu 29 Oct
IndiaAsia/Kolkata	07:30	Thu 29 Oct
PhilippinesAsia/Manila	10:00	Thu 29 Oct
Japan & KoreaAsia/Tokyo	11:00	Thu 29 Oct
Australia (east)Australia/Sydney	13:00	Thu 29 Oct
New ZealandPacific/Auckland	15:00	Thu 29 Oct

Because it is one moment rather than a midnight in each region, switching your console or store region buys you nothing — there is no zone that reaches it first. The countdown above is this same instant read on your own device's clock.

Key facts

What is confirmed about Phantom Blade Zero

PlatformsPC · PlayStation 5

Launch moment28 Oct, 19:00 Pacific

One global instant, not a midnight in each region: 02:00 UTC on 29 October, which is 03:00 in central Europe and 11:00 in Japan.

PlatformsPC and PlayStation 5

Steam lists full controller support; the game is designed around a pad rather than around mouse aim.

Price$49.99 standard, $59.99 Deluxe

Steam list prices at 16 September 2026. Regional pricing differs, and no edition plays earlier than any other.

EngineUnreal Engine 5

Frame pacing matters more than raw frame rate for a parry window — a stable 60 beats an unstable 90.

What the input has to doParry and dodge on a frame window

The developer has not published the window length, and this site does not invent one. What is measurable is your own end-to-end delay.

Timeline

Dates that matter

Oct 21, 2026
Pre-load window opens
Steam pre-load usually opens a week out; confirm on the store page before relying on it.
In 32 days
Oct 29, 2026
Launch
One instant worldwide: 28 October at 19:00 Pacific, which is 02:00 UTC on 29 October.
In 40 days

Editions

Which edition unlocks what

Prices are US list prices where the publisher has stated them; regional pricing differs.

Standard

$49.99

Base game

Digital Deluxe

$59.99

Base game
Digital extras as listed by S-GAME on the store page
No early access — every edition unlocks at the same instant

Confirmed

PC and PlayStation 5, unlocking at one worldwide instant on 28 October 2026, 19:00 Pacific
No early-access edition: every buyer starts at the same moment
Full controller support on the Steam listing
Unreal Engine 5, single-player action RPG
S-GAME Studio developing, S-GAME Publishing releasing

Not confirmed yet

The length of the parry and dodge windows in frames
Whether input latency options (reflex-style low-latency modes) ship at launch
Xbox release
Any keyboard and mouse binding list — the PC control scheme has not been published

Get ready

Launch checklist

Everything here runs in the browser and takes minutes, so the first hour with the game is spent playing.

Measure your click-to-photon delayA parry window is a handful of frames. The delay between your hand and the screen eats them before the game sees anything, and it is the one part of the chain you can measure today.Check your controller's resting centreA drifting stick turns a neutral dodge into a directional one. Ten seconds of measurement now, rather than a mistimed roll in a boss fight.Find your smallest usable deadzoneA dodge that has to travel through a wide deadzone starts late. Build the floor from your own noise instead of the default.Confirm the trigger and button mapEvery button and trigger the game will ask for, read live, before launch night rather than during it.

Quick answers

When does Phantom Blade Zero unlock where I am?

At one instant everywhere: 28 October 2026 at 19:00 Pacific, which is 02:00 UTC on 29 October, 03:00 in central Europe and 11:00 in Japan. Steam shows 28 October because a store page renders that moment on the viewer's own clock; the table here reads it on eleven clocks, including the regions where the calendar has already turned over.

Is it a controller game or a keyboard and mouse game?

Steam lists full controller support and the combat is built around directional parries and dodges, which a stick expresses more naturally than WASD. No keyboard and mouse binding list has been published, so this page does not print one.

How many frames is the parry window?

S-GAME has not published it, so nobody outside the studio knows and this site will not invent a number. What can be measured before launch is your own end-to-end delay: the milliseconds between your press and the screen changing, which come out of any window whatever its length.

What should I test before launch night?

The three things that cost frames and are fixable in advance: your click-to-photon latency, your controller's resting centre, and your deadzone floor. All three are measured on this site in about five minutes and none of them need the game installed.

Will there be a PC control scheme page here?

Yes, on the Controls Library, once the bindings are published and verified. Nothing goes in that table before it can be checked against the shipped game — a guessed binding is worse than an empty row.