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The release date for Phantom Blade Zero has been announced at The Game Awards. It is coming out on September 9, 2026, and it is coming to PS5 and PC. It isn’t a soulslike, but the game has drawn comparisons to FromSoftware’s Sekiro Shadows Die Twice.
Phantom Blade Zero comes from Chinese developer S-Game. The Phantom Blade series began with Executioners in 2023, which is available on PlayStation as well as PC. Executions is a smaller-sized 2D action-adventure game focusing on kung fu combat, whereas Phantom Blade Zero is a semi-open world experience with a much bigger scope.
Per Soulframe Liang, the founder and CEO of S-Game speaking through the PlayStation Blog, Phantom Blade Zero is actually a remake of an indie game he made himself with RPG Maker back in 2010 called Rainblood Town of Death. You play as an elite assassin named Soul, who was gravely injured in a manhunt after being framed for the murder of The Order’s patriarch. Naturally, your goal is to unmask the true murderer and enact revenge.
Its story takes place across multiple maps of reasonable size, and you will be able to customize Soul with several pieces of stunning and powerful weapons and armor, plus skills and artifacts. It is more of a hack-and-slash rather than another Soulslike, and it features authentic Kungfu moves from Chinese films back in the 1990s.
Other amazing announcements from this year’s Game Awards include a new Star Wars directed by Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect lead, Casey Hudson, as well as Total War Warhammer 40k, featuring Stranger Things star, David Harbour.
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