The console release is directly listed by PlayStation
The official game page explicitly identifies the PS5 version. Its release date agrees with the updated October announcement reported after the June delay. That combination confirms the platform and date without depending on an unofficial trailer description or a shop’s product naming.
Offline single-player is also listed for this edition. This describes the supported player mode and separates the game from a multiplayer service that requires cooperative participation. The page does not turn that feature into a claim about every installation or download requirement attached to a physical purchase.
DualSense features have a second primary confirmation
The PlayStation listing names vibration and trigger effects for the DualSense controller. The director’s official AMA response separately confirms haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. These two primary references make controller support a firmer point of comparison than an inferred feature based only on the game’s console presence.
The PS5 Pro Enhanced label is another listed feature, but it is a different kind of information. It confirms support branding without providing final native-resolution or frame-rate measurements for each machine. The useful comparison therefore stays with the named features rather than expanding them into a performance promise.
PS5 and DualSense support
The official PlayStation listing identifies offline single-player and a PS5 version. It also lists vibration and trigger effects for the DualSense controller, with PS5 Pro Enhanced status. The director’s official AMA reply separately confirms support for haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, supporting the controller features shown in the storefront. The agreement on controller features is specific to the named support, rather than a basis for inventing an action-by-action list of feedback effects.
These feature labels describe support, rather than supplying a complete visual-performance table. They do not establish a particular native resolution or show the exact settings used by a base PS5 and a PS5 Pro. For a platform decision, the useful confirmed information is the supported console, the single-player mode and the named controller features. The official features can be compared directly with the other platform listings without adding unmeasured console performance numbers to the purchasing decision.
The current release date and the earlier delay
Valor Mortis is scheduled to release on October 13, 2026. The earlier September 24 announcement was changed in a June 11 update, which Gematsu reported with the developer’s explanation. Keeping that sequence in mind resolves the most common disagreement between an older trailer and the current storefronts. The later statement is the one used for current planning, while the earlier announcement remains useful only for understanding the change in schedule.
The October launch announcement continues to use October 13, and the official platform listings support that date. This research was checked on October 11, while the game was still ahead of its full release. It records the announced launch date without substituting a fan-site countdown for a verified global unlock schedule. Release-date confirmation and exact time-zone conversion are separate questions, and only the date has been consistently established across the sources used here.
A PlayStation Plus trial is a separate offer
The collected October reports describe a ninety-minute PlayStation Plus trial connected with the launch. Beebom, AllThingsHow and GamerSky agree on the duration and distinguish this offer from Xbox’s full-game subscription access. The useful confirmed reporting is the trial announcement, rather than a claim that Valor Mortis has become a full catalogue game for PlayStation subscribers. The duration is the point shared across the reports, while live account entitlement is a separate question from the existence of an announcement.
This trial is also separate from the earlier public Steam demo. The Steam demo was a modified two-level build with its own closing date, whereas the reported PlayStation offer is timed access associated with launch. The available research does not establish live regional entitlement or save-transfer terms, so those details are not used as promises in the purchase comparison. Keeping the access types distinct avoids treating a timed sampler, a withdrawn playable slice and an entire subscription campaign as one interchangeable offer.
The announced Standard Edition prices
The September price announcement sets Standard Edition at $39.99 in US dollars, €39.99 in euros and 149.99 zł in Polish złoty. These are the publisher’s stated launch prices in named currencies. They provide a clear edition comparison, but they are not a rule for converting the US amount into every other country’s checkout price. Using the publisher’s own named currencies avoids treating a retailer’s unrelated reservation amount or shipping estimate as the universal price of the game.
The official gameplay overview announcement repeats those Standard prices as launch approaches. The publisher connects its pricing explanation with the game’s approximately twenty-hour story. A stated launch price and a stated story length describe the offer being presented, rather than confirming a retailer discount, a physical shipping charge or the price of an expansion sold separately. The campaign estimate explains the publisher’s positioning, while the prices themselves remain the specific amounts stated for those Standard launch offers.
The physical version reached the printing stage
In its gone-gold announcement, the developer said the version for physical discs was ready for printing. That is direct evidence that a disc version is part of the release, rather than a conclusion drawn from the presence of console logos. The announcement also distinguishes this stage from the Steam and PC version of development. The printing reference establishes a physical-production plan in the developer’s words, rather than relying on a generic store placeholder for the conclusion.
The studio described its next work as final polishing before the October launch. Being ready to print discs is a production milestone, while a retailer’s stock and delivery date are purchasing details. The milestone therefore answers whether physical production exists without promising a particular shop’s inventory or establishing that every piece of game data is on the disc. A milestone announcement is therefore useful release evidence, while an installation question requires its own source rather than being answered by the word gold.
William’s resurrection and the plague
William Dowsett is a soldier of Napoleon’s army who returns from death in a supernatural version of the Napoleonic Wars. The developer describes a Europe transformed by war and a spreading plague, with that affliction also giving William dangerous powers. His return and the corruption around him form the established premise of the adventure. The premise ties the protagonist’s condition to the setting, establishing the story’s starting conflict without presenting a promotional introduction as the complete narrative.
The story trailer announcement says William hears Emperor Bonaparte’s voice in his mind. Napoleon guides him against resistance in occupied Eastern Europe, connecting the protagonist’s supernatural condition with the conflict around him. These are details supplied by the publisher’s story material, rather than an explanation of the campaign’s final outcome or the hidden cause of every event. These details explain the starting relationship between William and the emperor while leaving the campaign’s resolution outside a spoiler-light account of the premise.
Sources and further reading
- Valor Mortis — PlayStation US
- Valor Mortis delayed to October 13 — Gematsu
- Game Director AMA — official replies
- Launch Trailer and Launch Times
- Valor Mortis Skips Pre-Orders, but PS Plus Players Can Try It Free at Launch
- Valor Mortis on PS Plus: What the 90-Minute Launch Trial Includes
- PS Plus trial announcement — GamerSky
- Revealing the price of Valor Mortis
- New Gameplay Overview Trailer and Official Voice Cast Reveal
- GONE GOLD and a new trailer next week
- Valor Mortis — One More Level
- Valor Mortis - New Story Trailer