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Release date
The dates
| Milestone | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 release — PC | September 17, 2026 | Amplitude's own 1.0 announcement; Steam store page |
| 1.0 release — PlayStation 5 | September 17, 2026 | Amplitude's 1.0 announcement; PlayStation Store |
| 1.0 release — Xbox Series X|S | September 17, 2026 | Amplitude's 1.0 announcement; Xbox Store |
| Early Access began — PC | September 22, 2025 | Steam store page, Early Access release date field |
| The Gathering update — multiplayer reaches the main branch | December 16, 2025 | Hooded Horse press release dated 2025-12-16 |
| Unlock time | Not published | No first-party page states an hour. Checked 2026-09-18 |
All three platforms list the same day, and the studio's own announcement names all three together. The stores print it in their own house styles — Steam as Sep 17, 2026, the PlayStation Store as 9/17/2026, the Xbox Store as 9/17/2026 — which is a formatting difference, not a disagreement.
How long Early Access lasted
Early Access opened on September 22, 2025 and 1.0 followed on September 17, 2026: roughly twelve months. The studio's own framing is that the extra time was wanted for polish, and that it had promised a demo as compensation when the schedule moved. Early Access itself was not a quiet period — the game director's November 2025 post counts 23 updates across the main and public-test branches in the first seven weeks alone.
If you are trying to place a memory
- "It came out and there was no multiplayer." Correct for the first months. Multiplayer was not in the Early Access launch build; it reached the main branch on December 16, 2025 and is still described by the studio as beta.
- "There was a demo in August." There were two, a year apart, and they are not the same thing. The August 11–18, 2025 window was a time-limited free trial; the August 11, 2026 demo was the one that ran until launch. Both are broken down on /demo/.
- "The release date was September 22." That was the Early Access start date, 2025. It is also, confusingly, mentioned in the demo announcement's own account of a delay. The 1.0 date is September 17, 2026.
What this page deliberately does not cover
Prices, editions, frame rates and player counts are not repeated here, because three pages that all open with the same launch sentence end up competing with each other. Those live on /ps5/, /xbox/, /steam-deck/ and /editions/.
Sources read for this page
Every source this page was written from, checked 2026-09-18.
- Steam store page, app 3407390
- Amplitude official blog — ENDLESS Legend 2 releases into 1.0 on September 17
- Hooded Horse press release — The Gathering multiplayer update
- PlayStation Store listing
- Xbox Store listing