Valor Mortis Guide: Release Date, Price, and Basics

Valor Mortis guide coverage starts with a pre-launch boundary. One More Level's first-person action Soulslike is scheduled for October 13, 2026, with a $39.99 standard price and a Windows version on Steam. Official material also confirms PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. This hub records what Steam and the developers have actually confirmed before launch, then routes future coverage without turning trailers into a finished gameplay manual.

TL;DR: Valor Mortis is a single-player, first-person Soulslike from One More Level, the studio behind Ghostrunner. Steam lists Windows support, the official announcement gives an October 13, 2026 release and a standard price of $39.99, €39.99, or 149.99 zł, and a September 30 release notice confirms PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Steam says Deck compatibility is Unknown. The former demo went offline September 8, and the final combat, co-op, performance, and progression details remain launch questions.

Key takeaways

• Release date: Valor Mortis is scheduled to release on October 13, 2026.
• Price: the announced standard price is $39.99 USD, €39.99, or 149.99 zł. Steam's live appdetails response has not yet populated a price overview.
• Platforms: Steam confirms Windows. The official September 30 release notice also names PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S for October 13.
• Format: Steam lists the game as single-player. It does not list co-op or multiplayer.
• Developer: One More Level, the studio known for Ghostrunner.
• Publisher: Steam lists Lyrical Games and One More Level.
• Premise: William, a soldier of Napoleon's Grande Armée, rises from a battlefield grave in an alternate, plague-ravaged Europe.
• Combat boundary: Steam's store copy confirms a first-person Soulslike structure with parries, dashes, finishers, weapons, and supernatural abilities. It does not give us a complete launch rulebook.
• Demo: the developer said the Steam Demo would go offline on September 8, 2026. The current appdetails response has no active demo entry.
• Steam Deck: the store page currently states Unknown for compatibility.
• Community signal: Steam community member count was 38,600 when read on October 6, 2026. That is a dated community count, not a sales or wishlist figure.

Current status (October 2026)

Valor Mortis is still a coming-soon Steam title as of October 6, 2026. The current appdetails response for App ID 2828710 returns a planned release date of October 13, 2026, marks the product as coming soon, and lists Windows as the supported operating system. It does not expose a live price_overview value, which is why this hub uses the price announced by the developer rather than presenting a checkout total as if it were already visible.

The same Steam response identifies One More Level as developer and lists Lyrical Games and One More Level as publishers. It also includes Single-player among the categories. That is the current store record this page treats as the baseline. Store metadata can change during the final week before launch, so the release date, price display, compatibility label, and feature list should be checked again when the game unlocks.

The developer's Steam news feed fills in the two most important pieces of context around the date. A September 4 development update said the Steam Demo would go offline the following week on September 8 because the team had made large improvements to the full release and no longer considered the old build representative of its quality and polish. A September 17 price announcement then set the standard launch price at $39.99, €39.99, or 149.99 zł for October 13.

An official September 30 release notice adds the console scope. It names Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X for the October 13 launch, alongside the same standard price. This hub writes Xbox Series X|S in the conventional platform order, while the source uses S|X in its sentence. No source checked for this page gives separate console prices, a console performance target, or a cross-save promise.

The Steam community hub showed a member count of 38,600 on October 6, 2026. That number is useful only as a dated snapshot of community size. It is not a wishlist total, a pre-order total, a sales estimate, or a review count. It can move before launch, and it should not be reused without a new date check.

This page therefore sits between a release-date preview and a finished guide. The Valor Mortis release-date preview keeps the platform and timing announcement in news format, while the Valor Mortis demo update explains why the earlier playable build disappeared. The hub is the stable entry point for confirmed facts and later verified coverage.

What is Valor Mortis? (quick answer)

Valor Mortis is a first-person action Soulslike from One More Level, the developer of Ghostrunner. Steam's short description says the player rises from death as a former soldier of Napoleon's army, wields supernatural powers, battles horrifying monsters, and unravels a conspiracy threatening humanity. The official One More Level page frames the same idea as an alternate-history journey through nineteenth-century Europe.

The protagonist is William, a soldier of the Grande Armée. The official setup begins with William being brought back from a battlefield grave, then places him in a plague-ravaged version of Europe. That premise is the safe pre-launch answer to “what is Valor Mortis?” It explains the game's historical inspiration, supernatural layer, and horror tone without pretending that the story's full sequence or ending is public.

Steam categorizes the title under Action, Adventure, and RPG, and calls it a first-person action Soulslike. Those labels describe the store positioning, not a promise that every familiar Soulslike system appears in the final build. The store page does not publish a complete inventory of bosses, areas, quests, progression screens, weapons, upgrade costs, or endings. Those details belong in later articles only after they can be checked in the released game.

The official One More Level game page is useful for the studio's own framing. It connects Valor Mortis to the creators' first-person action background and presents the Napoleonic setting as a supernatural alternate history. The official gameplay overview trailer adds visual context for the world and the protagonist, but a trailer is not hands-on evidence for how a system works.

Release date, price and platforms

The release date is straightforward: Steam lists October 13, 2026, and the official price announcement repeats it. The game is still marked as coming soon in the appdetails response checked for this hub. That matters because a scheduled date and a purchasable product are different states. The date is confirmed, while the checkout experience, review total, and final launch state still need a live-store check.

Windows is the only operating system currently marked true in the Steam appdetails platform object. macOS and Linux are not marked as supported there. The official console announcement broadens the platform list to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It does not give a separate console launch hour, a different console date, or a statement about feature parity. Readers should treat those versions as confirmed platforms, not as evidence of a shared save system.

The developer's standard price announcement uses three regional examples: $39.99, €39.99, and 149.99 zł. Those are the confirmed headline prices. They do not establish the exact amount in every country, the final tax treatment, or a permanent discount. The announcement also discusses a more expensive Deluxe Edition, but this hub keeps the main answer focused on the standard edition requested by most readers.

The existing Phantom Blade Zero release-date guide is a useful comparison for readers tracking another pre-launch action game, but its platforms and timing should not be imported into Valor Mortis. For this game, the source chain is narrow: Steam for Windows and the store listing, plus the official September 30 announcement for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

• Valor Mortis Release Date, Platforms, Price, and Demo: Valor Mortis release date is October 13, 2026.

Developer and publisher

One More Level is the developer. Steam lists the studio on the Valor Mortis store page, and the official One More Level site describes the game as a first-person action Soulslike from the creators of Ghostrunner. The studio's most relevant lineage is therefore direct rather than speculative: the same developer that built Ghostrunner is making this new first-person action game.

That lineage explains why the first-person perspective is central to the official pitch, but it does not mean Valor Mortis is a sequel or a Ghostrunner spin-off. The setting, protagonist, historical premise, and store classification are distinct. The safe comparison is about developer experience in first-person action, not shared characters, systems, timeline, or combat rules.

Steam lists Lyrical Games and One More Level as publishers. The official September 30 release notice is published under Lyrical Games' release communications and names the same launch window. This page uses “Lyrical Games and One More Level” when describing the Steam publisher field, because both names are present there rather than reducing the credit to one company.

The Steam community page is also the source for the dated member snapshot used in this hub. On October 6, 2026, it showed 38,600 members. That figure belongs to the community, not to the studio's follower count on another social platform and not to a third-party estimate. Because community size changes, every future article that repeats it should attach a new read date.

The developer story is deliberately short at this stage. We know the studio lineage, the publisher names, the official site, the release communication, and the game's premise. We do not need an unverified staff list, an engine claim, a production-budget claim, or a prediction about how the team will support the game after launch. The Mortal Shell 2 complete guide hub is a useful neighboring pillar for readers interested in first-person and Soulslike coverage, but it is not a source for Valor Mortis facts.

What the Steam page confirms about combat

Steam's Valor Mortis description confirms a first-person Soulslike combat pitch. It specifically presents parries, dashes, and visceral finishers as part of the combat system, then mentions a variety of weapons and supernatural abilities. That is the complete level of detail this pre-launch hub is willing to assert. The store copy tells us the advertised ingredients, not the timing windows, damage values, upgrade paths, or best choices.

The first-person perspective is worth stating separately because it is part of both the store description and the studio lineage. It changes how the game is presented, but the Steam page does not provide a complete first-person combat tutorial. We cannot responsibly turn a few words in the store copy into advice about spacing, stamina, parry timing, enemy tells, or boss patterns before the release build is available.

The store page also does not publish a final weapon roster. “A variety of weapons” is a confirmed description, not a list of weapon names or categories. The same applies to supernatural abilities. Steam says they exist and are part of the pitch, but it does not show a complete ability tree, resource model, upgrade cost, or build ranking in the material used here.

The right way to read the official gameplay overview is as a preview of the game's advertised identity. It can show the setting, the protagonist, and the kind of action the developers want to communicate. It cannot prove that a frame in a trailer represents every enemy, every weapon, or the final balance. The Kristala combat guide demonstrates the kind of practical parry coverage we publish once a game's systems can be tested; it is not a substitute for testing Valor Mortis.

This section also explains what is absent. The Steam page does not confirm a full boss list, a damage formula, a stat cap, an upgrade order, a difficulty setting, a respec rule, or a best build. It does not tell us whether every weapon uses the same resource, how supernatural abilities interact with finishers, or what a player should prioritize in the first hour. Those questions are ideal future guide topics, but answering them now would cross the pre-launch evidence boundary.

Is there co-op or a demo?

Steam lists Valor Mortis as single-player. The store page does not list co-op or multiplayer among the confirmed features checked for this hub. That is the correct pre-launch answer: plan around a solo experience, and do not advertise a co-op mode unless Steam or the developer adds one.

The demo question has a firmer answer. In the September 4 Steam development update, the Valor Mortis team said the Steam Demo would go offline on September 8. The post explained that the full version had received major improvements based on feedback, so the demo no longer represented the quality and polish planned for release. It also said the demo's Chapter I and Chapter VII versions had been recreated for Steam Next Fest, making it difficult to apply the full game's optimization, balancing, and bug fixes directly to that build.

The current appdetails response checked on October 6 has no active demo entry. That does not erase the fact that a demo existed earlier in the year, but it does mean a reader should not expect a current Steam download button. The Valor Mortis demo article in this cluster covers the shutdown and the developer's explanation in more detail.

There is also no basis here for a community workaround, unofficial download, or claim that the old demo is still safe to use. The source-backed answer is simpler: the official demo went offline on September 8, and Steam currently shows no active demo listing. If the developer publishes a new trial, playtest, or replacement demo, that would be a new announcement and should be treated separately from the removed build.

• Valor Mortis Demo Removed: Why It Left Steam in 2026: Valor Mortis demo is unavailable.

What we do not know yet

This is a pre-launch hub, so the unknowns are part of the useful answer. Steam and the official posts establish the premise, date, price, platforms, developer, publisher, single-player label, a broad combat pitch, language support, system requirements, and the current Steam Deck label. They do not establish the complete playable ruleset.

• The final weapon list, weapon differences, upgrade costs, and recommended builds are not published as a complete guide.
• The exact parry timing, dash behavior, finisher conditions, damage model, and supernatural ability interactions still need to be tested in the release build.
• No complete boss roster, area list, quest order, ending list, or collectible route is confirmed by the sources used here.
• Steam does not list co-op or multiplayer. No official source checked for this hub announces a later multiplayer mode.
• Steam currently says Steam Deck compatibility is Unknown. That is not a performance promise, a Verified label, or an Unsupported label.
• The official sources do not give final console resolution, frame-rate targets, cross-play, cross-save, or save-transfer details.
• The standard price is announced, but every regional checkout total and any launch discount still need to be checked when the store becomes purchasable.
• Steam lists 14 supported languages, with English full audio and interface/subtitles for the listed languages, but it does not turn that list into a statement about every spoken line or every future update.
• Steam's minimum requirements list 16 GB of RAM and 50 GB of available storage. They do not predict the performance a particular PC will deliver.
• The community count of 38,600 is a dated Steam snapshot, not a promise of launch sales or a measure of wishlists.

These limits are editorial guardrails, not a lack of interest in the game. The Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon complete guide hub shows how much more useful a hub becomes after a released build supplies testable answers. Valor Mortis will receive the same treatment when its live version makes those answers verifiable.

All Valor Mortis guides on this site

This is the first Valor Mortis pillar hub. The cluster currently has two supporting pre-launch news pieces, each with a different job:

• Valor Mortis Release Date, Platforms, Price, and Demo: the scheduled date, platform announcement, price, and early demo context.
• Valor Mortis Demo Removed: Why It Left Steam in 2026: the September 8 shutdown, the developer's explanation, and the current Steam status.

The next responsible cluster pages will wait for evidence from the released game. Potential topics include a beginner guide, parry and dash testing, weapon and supernatural ability coverage, boss guides, endings, achievements, Steam Deck performance, and platform comparisons. Listing a future topic is not a claim that its systems are already known. Each page should say what build it tested, date volatile facts, and link back here for the stable release and platform summary.

Readers looking for adjacent coverage can also use the Mortal Shell 2 review, the Kristala review, and the Steam Next Fest demo roundup. Those articles can provide genre context or explain the kind of question a future Valor Mortis guide may answer, but they are not evidence about Valor Mortis itself.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Valor Mortis release?

Valor Mortis is scheduled to launch on October 13, 2026. Steam lists the Windows version as coming soon, and the official price announcement repeats that date.

How much does Valor Mortis cost?

The announced standard price is $39.99 USD, €39.99, or 149.99 zł. Steam's current appdetails response has not published a live price overview, so regional totals may differ.

What platforms will Valor Mortis be on?

Steam confirms Windows. The official September 30 release notice also confirms PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S for October 13.

Who developed and published Valor Mortis?

One More Level developed the game. Steam lists Lyrical Games and One More Level as publishers, and One More Level is the studio behind Ghostrunner.

Is Valor Mortis single-player?

Yes. Steam lists Single-player, and the store page checked for this hub does not list co-op or multiplayer.

Is there a Valor Mortis demo?

The developer said the Steam Demo went offline on September 8, 2026. Current appdetails data has no active demo entry, so there is no confirmed current Steam demo.

Is Valor Mortis Steam Deck Verified?

No rating is confirmed yet. Steam currently states Unknown for Steam Deck compatibility, which is different from Verified, Playable, or Unsupported.

What are the minimum PC requirements?

Steam lists Windows, 16 GB of RAM, and 50 GB of available storage in the current minimum requirements. The listing also names DirectX 12, but final performance depends on the full release and the rest of a PC's hardware.

Related Reading

• Valor Mortis release date and platforms: the launch window and official platform announcement.
• Valor Mortis demo removal explained: why the Steam Demo ended and what remains available.
• Mortal Shell 2 complete guide hub: a neighboring Soulslike pillar with post-launch guide coverage.
• Kristala review: another first-person-adjacent action RPG comparison from the site's coverage.
• Steam Next Fest demo roundup: broader context for the event build era.
• Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon complete guide: an example of a deeper hub built around a released game.

References

• Valor Mortis on Steam
• Steam appdetails for Valor Mortis
• Valor Mortis official Steam news feed
• The Final Stretch development update
• Revealing the price of Valor Mortis
• Official September 30 release notice
• One More Level official Valor Mortis page
• Official gameplay overview trailer
• Valor Mortis Steam Community hub