Nekopara Sekai Connect Steam Version Delayed to Early October or Later
The Steam date holds no fixed day while the smartphone version ships a dated October slate the same week, so the two platforms are no longer running on the same calendar.
Reporting from 2 sources: GameBusiness.jp, Game Spark.
Good Smile Company and NEKO WORKs announced on September 25 that the Steam release of Nekopara Sekai Connect, previously set for September 28, is pushed to early October or later. The platform review has run past a month, and as of September 25 there was no sign it would finish, so the launch slips. A new maintenance schedule will be announced once the review clears. On September 30 the smartphone version, already running on iOS and Android, got its October slate: the new Bastet Cat Academy cat Fig, voiced by Yu Kobayashi, enters a pickup gacha after the October 5 maintenance, with Aki and Saffron in a parallel pickup through October 29. The Halloween event The 4th Nyan On, subtitled Chasing the Mischievous Cat, runs the same window with rhythm game and quest points traded for gacha tickets, plus an event pass, login bonuses, ranking battles, and an original story set at La Soleil. Fig, Aki, and Saffron get Halloween costumes in the costume shop. A half-anniversary campaign lands mid-October, and the Golden Flower Cat Science Academy arc starts late in the month.
Pre-orders also opened at the Good Smile Company official shop for a B2 tapestry pair showing Chocola and Vanilla in bath towels, sold as Chocola Bath Time Ver. and Vanilla Bath Time Ver. The tapestries are made entirely to order, with orders taken until 23:59 on October 28, 2026 and shipping planned for around December 2026.
Two other smartphone promotions overlap the Halloween window. The revival event The 1st Nyan On, subtitled Sisters' Quartet, lets players replay the April event and runs until 15:00 on October 13. A Select Gacha that lets players pick any cat and raise its appearance rate runs until 0:00 on October 5.
The Halloween story itself has a premise: Fig, frustrated that the protagonist will not leave the kitchen while reworking a new cake, ropes in the other cats as the "Phantom Thief Group Pumpkin" and stages a prank. A list of cats with October birthdays was released alongside the schedule.
The game is a communication RPG co-developed by NEKO WORKs and Good Smile Company, free to play, and already running on iOS and Android. The Steam version was pushed from September 28 because the platform review has run past a month.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.