Developer Hound13 announced during a livestream the global release date of its upcoming Anime-style RPG DragonSword: Awakening.
The game will launch on Steam on July 23, 2026.
Below, you can take a look at the release date in several different time zones to get a good idea of when you’ll be able to jump in.
We also hear that the standard edition will include the full game, while the Deluxe Edition will include the base game, a digital artbook, the original soundtrack, and a limited edition Baby Dragon familiar.
The game will have additional DLC released after launch, in the form of costumes and familiars, and they will be revealed at release alongside their pricing.
For the first month (until August 23), the Abyssal Direwolf familiar will be available for free to everyone who purchases the game to celebrate its release. After that, it’ll be for sale at its normal (unannounced) price.
If you’re unfamiliar with DragonSword: Awakening, it’s a single-player, open-world RPG with optional co-op, developed in Unreal Engine 5.
While its similarity in style to games like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves may make you expect this to be a free-to-play gacha game, it isn’t. It’s a full-fledged buy-to-play game with no gacha.
All Heroes and Equipment in DragonSword: Awakening can be unlocked by playing the story and activities in the game itself. You can level them both up by using resources you gather in the game’s world.
You can play with friends optionally, specifically with another friend in battle gameplay and with two in raid gameplay.
There are no plans for mobile platforms, but the developers are “keeping the door open” for consoles.
That being said, the game is threatened by legal proceedings by Korean publisher Webzen, which is trying to block its global PC release.
If you want to see more, you can check out a couple of the game’s heroes and more.
