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ArcheAge Chronicles release date

There is no official release date.

The official listings reviewed here give no launch day or month. What has been announced is a window, and it has moved 4 times. Everything below is dated and sourced; nothing is estimated.

What is announced ↓4 postponements ↓What we still don’t know ↓
Last checked2026-09-07
Checked againstXLGAMES ↗ · Kakao Games ↗
ResultNo date published
Steam saysTo be announced
Early access labelnot shown
Steam Playtestrequest access offered
This page is re-checked after official communications. If a date appears, it will be here with its source before anything else changes on the site.

What is announced

How we establish what we publish →
ConfirmedPublisher statement · 5 August 2026
T4 2026
Release window · PC and consoles · worldwide

Given by Kakao Games in its Q2 2026 results deck, dated 5 August 2026: the new-title appendix lists 4Q26, developed in-house by XLGAMES, online action RPG, PC and consoles, global. It names no month, no day, no region and no console brand.

Source · Kakao Games — earnings presentation, 5 August 2026 ↗
ReportedPress report · 11 August 2026
Steam early access
Reported from the investor call

That the Q4 2026 launch will be a Steam early access release comes from what executives said aloud on the 5 August 2026 investor call, relayed by Massively Overpowered, Gametoc and call transcripts. It is not on the slide and not on the Steam page. We report it; we do not upgrade it. Whether consoles are part of that early access is unknown.

Source · Massively Overpowered ↗
Dates shown by retailers, storefront placeholders (such as 31 December) and forum leaks are not listed here. None of them comes from XLGAMES or Kakao Games, and we do not display a date we cannot trace to one of them.

Announcements and postponements

4 postponements since the announcement

Each line is a statement from XLGAMES or Kakao Games, or a report about one. The window column shows what was stated at the time; a red marker means the window moved later than the previous one.

Game announced
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · Announcement at State of Play, PlayStation Blog article by Yongjin Ham (XLGAMES), and the executive producer’s letter on Steam
2025Confirmed
Window revisedPostponement 1
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · Kakao Games Q3 2024 earnings call, reported by MMORPG.com and Wccftech
fiscal year 2026Reported
Window revisedPostponement 2
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · XLGAMES’ written answers to Massively Overpowered
first half of 2026Reported
Window revisedPostponement 3
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · Kakao Games Q2 2025 earnings call — five days after the previous statement
Q3 2026Reported
Window maintained
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · Kakao Games Q3 2025 earnings call, reported by Massively Overpowered
Q3 2026 maintained, with a “very small global test” in the first half of 2026Reported
Window revisedPostponement 4
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · CEO Han Sang-woo at the Q4 2025 earnings call, reported by Inven, Gametoc and Wccftech
Q4 2026, after an external test in the first half of the yearReported
Window maintained
The window shown here is the one stated at the time.
Source and channel · Kakao Games Q2 2026 results — the “new title line-up” appendix slide, page 7 of the deck dated 5 August 2026
Q4 2026, on PC and consoles, worldwideConfirmed

What we still don’t know

Listed so that their absence is visible. Each item is filled in the day a source exists for it.

Launch day and month
Not announced
The official listings give no day or month.
Early access
Not announced
Whether an early-access phase precedes the release, and on which platforms.
Console launch timing
Not announced
Whether PS5 and Xbox Series X|S launch alongside PC.
Price and editions
Not announced
The price, the editions, and whether pre-orders will exist.
Test preparation
Not announced
The selection-notification deadline and pre-download opening time for the September network test.
What this page will never show

No countdown without an official date. No retailer or rumoured date presented as real. No estimate of our own. When the date is announced, this page changes in one place: the answer at the top, with its source.

Read the news on the Q4 2026 window →

Network test: 12–13 September 2026, US and Canada

The official Steam announcement of 3 September schedules a network test from 12 September, 7 p.m., to 13 September, 1 a.m. (EDT), for Steam users located in the United States and Canada. Request Access on the store page to apply; participants will be selected at random and a request does not guarantee admission.

The session uses an early development build with limited content, mainly the early areas. Pre-download is planned before the test, but its opening time is not given. This test date does not establish a commercial release date.

How to request access and what happens next

Where the next date will come from

Watch the official site, Steam announcements and Kakao Games’ quarterly results. The latest dated window cited here comes from the results deck; a future update could arrive through any official channel. A store test invitation alone is not a launch announcement.

Sources

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