Ember and Blade arrives in Early Access on PC in January 2027. Everything else about the launch — consoles, price, content volume — has a qualifier attached, and most of the confusion comes from reading one official statement without the other.
The three answers
- Release date — January 8, 2027 in LINE Games' announcement; January 7, 2027 on the Steam page.
- Platforms — PC at Early Access. PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with the full release. No Switch version at all.
- System requirements — a GTX 1050 Ti and 8GB for the minimum, an RTX 3060 and 16GB for 1080p 60fps.
What Early Access means here
The game ships in Early Access rather than as a finished release, and the story spans five acts. Act 1 is what the public demo covers; Acts 2 through 5 arrive during Early Access rather than at launch.
That is worth knowing before January for one reason: a complete wiki cannot exist yet. The systems are documented, the boss list is not, and any page claiming otherwise is guessing.
Official mediaWishlists and momentum
On November 5, 2026, LINE Games announced that the game had passed 100,000 Steam wishlists, and ran a key giveaway to mark it. Wishlist count is not a review score, but it does tell you how much attention the Early Access launch will get — which matters if you are deciding whether to write about the game or just play it.
Price
No price has been announced. The store page carries no price block, and neither the announcement nor the demo listing mentions one. The demo is free and needs no purchase.
Language support
Ten interface languages ship: English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Arabic. English is the only one with full audio.
The demo is the real preview
Act 1 is playable now, free, and has been rebuilt twice. It answers the question a release date cannot: whether the combat loop is for you.