Is Phantom Blade Zero out? Yes — since 28 October at 19:00 Pacific, on PC and PS5, and 445,030 played at once on Steam

Yes. It came out on PC and PlayStation 5 at one instant worldwide: 28 October 2026 at 19:00 Pacific, which was 02:00 UTC on 29 October, 03:00 in central Europe and 11:00 in Japan. Eight hours later 445,030 people were playing it at once on Steam.

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.

S-GAME has not published it, so nobody outside the studio knows and this site will not invent a number. The one figure the studio has given is relative: on Hellwalker the window is two frames shorter. What you can measure 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.

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.

Windows 10 or 11 64-bit, 16 GB of RAM and an SSD at both tiers. Minimum: a GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB or Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB with an Intel Core i7-8700K or Ryzen 5 3600, for 1080p at 30 fps with upscaling. Recommended: an RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB or RX 6700 XT 12 GB with a Core i5-10600K or Ryzen 5 5600X, for 1440p at 60 fps with upscaling.

Three, plus a challenge: Wayfarer, the most forgiving; Pathbreaker, the standard; and Hellwalker, where enemies change how they attack and defend. 66 Days leaves enemy strength alone but ends the run after 66 deaths. S-GAME's combat director told PC Gamer that the core timings move only a little between modes — the parry window is two frames shorter on Hellwalker.

88 on Metacritic and 91 on OpenCritic when the embargo lifted on 26 October 2026, three days before launch. Reviewers single out the combat and the bosses; the story drew the most criticism. On Steam, user reviews read Very Positive on launch morning: 86% of the first 600 in English.

Valve has not rated it yet. The publisher's minimum is a GTX 1660-class card with 16 GB of RAM, well above what the Deck has, so do not count on it before a rating appears.

The controller layout is on the Phantom Blade Zero controls page now, read from the game's own Controls menu. The keyboard and mouse defaults join it once they can be checked against the game's own key bindings — a guessed binding is worse than an empty row.