This Week's New Game Releases: Phantom Blade Zero, ANOMALITH, Dune Awakening
The week's two headline releases share a release date and price and both ship on Steam, the PlayStation Store, and Switch 2, which puts the same pair of 8,580-yen action titles in front of the same buyers on the same Thursday.
Key Facts
- Phantom Blade Zero releases on October 29, 2026, for Steam and the PlayStation Store at 8,580 yen.
- ANOMALITH releases on October 29, 2026, for Steam, the PlayStation Store, and My Nintendo Store at 8,580 yen.
- Sanrio Party Land releases on October 29, 2026, on My Nintendo Store at 6,380 yen.
- Minecraft comes to Nintendo Switch 2 on October 28, 2026.
- Dune: Awakening releases on PlayStation 5 on October 29, 2026.
Reporting from 3 sources: 4Gamer.net, Inside, Game Spark.
The week of October 26 to November 1, 2026, brings Phantom Blade Zero and ANOMALITH to stores on Thursday, October 29, alongside ports and smaller releases across PC, PlayStation, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Phantom Blade Zero is a dark martial-arts action adventure set in a kung fu punk world that fuses Chinese martial arts with steampunk. The player is Soul, a swordsman framed for his lord's murder and wounded in the heart, who has 66 days of life left to chase the conspiracy behind it. It costs 8,580 yen on Steam and the PlayStation Store, with a Treasure Bowl accessory (Soul Dust drop rate plus 10 percent) and a Transmission costume as pre-order bonuses. ANOMALITH is a survival third-person shooter set in a Showa-retro Japan. The player is Reona Minazuki, an investigator for the Special Hazard Zone Countermeasures Office who enters a liminal Otherworld to find a missing friend. It also costs 8,580 yen, on Steam, the PlayStation Store, and My Nintendo Store.
Sanrio Party Land arrives the same Thursday on My Nintendo Store at 6,380 yen, a party game set in a town of Sanrio characters where players build an avatar and play minigames and board games with more than 145 characters, 16 of them usable as partners. Its pre-order bonus is a choice of avatar T-shirts from over 80 characters.
Dune: Awakening lands on PlayStation 5 that day, and Minecraft reaches Nintendo Switch 2 on Wednesday, October 28. Both sit in the featured-title slots of the wider release calendar. STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT ships on Xbox Series X|S on October 29, and Monster Hunter Outlanders is listed for the same day. The calendar runs Monday to Saturday, with Queen's Domain on October 31 across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2.
- Phantom Blade Zero: October 29, Steam and PS Store, 8,580 yen, dark martial-arts action in a kung fu punk world
- ANOMALITH: October 29, Steam, PS Store and My Nintendo Store, 8,580 yen, Showa-retro survival shooter
- Sanrio Party Land: October 29, My Nintendo Store, 6,380 yen, party game with over 145 Sanrio characters
- Dune: Awakening: October 29 on PlayStation 5
- Minecraft: October 28 on Nintendo Switch 2
- Hunting Simulator 3: October 29 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S
- STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT: October 29 on Xbox Series X|S
- Monster Hunter Outlanders: Listed among the week's releases
- Hatsune Miku Tsunageru Puzzle Tamagotori Deluxe: October 29 on PC, PS5 and PS4
- Culdcept BEGINS: October 28 on PC
- Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy: October 27 on PC, PS5, Switch 2
- Queen's Domain: October 31 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2
Written with AI by Yomimono from the 3 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited. See our editorial policy.
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