Hunter's Moon PS5 Release Date, Price and Platform Details

Hunter's Moon, a first-person folk-horror game from independent studio Twin Swans, launches exclusively on PS5 on October 25, 2026 in North America and October 26 elsewhere, according to the PlayStation Store listing and PlayStation Blog's official announcement. The game is PS5 Pro Enhanced, single-player only with offline play supported, and Sony has not yet published a price — the PlayStation Store page currently shows only a wishlist button.

Hunter's Moon release date: October 25 or 26, depending on where you live

Twin Swans and PlayStation confirmed the release window in a PlayStation Blog post published September 3, 2026, titled "Hunter's Moon, an immersive historical folk-horror, launches October 26 on PS5." The date is deliberate: October 26, 2026 is the night of the actual full Hunter's Moon, the traditional name for October's full moon, and the game's marketing leans directly into that coincidence.

The catch is the regional split. The PlayStation Blog post carries a footnote stating the game "launches October 25 in North America," while the rest of the world — the UK, continental Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand — gets it on October 26. The PlayStation Store listing lists a single release timestamp of 10/26/2026 at 12:00 AM UTC, which lands in the evening of October 25 across most of the United States once converted to local time zones. In other words, both dates are correct — they're just describing the same global rollout from different sides of the International Date Line.

What is Hunter's Moon?

Hunter's Moon is a first-person historical narrative folk-horror game set over a single night in a 17th-century rural English village. According to PlayStation's announcement, you play as Lilith Thorne, a woman accused of witchcraft who must flee through the village, its surrounding forests and its moors while being hunted by three pursuers: the Witchfinder General, the village magistrate, and a local huntsman.

Twin Swans writer-director Alicia Contestabile framed the premise bluntly in the PlayStation Blog post: "Discover the secrets of this dysfunctional village on the brink as you embody an accused 'witch' on the run for her life." She added that the game is built around a question rather than a monster: "what if the most terrifying thing in our world is not monsters or magic, but other people?" There's no magic power to fall back on here — Lilith isn't actually a witch, as far as anything Sony or Twin Swans has said confirms, just a woman who has been accused of being one, which is a very different and much more grounded kind of horror than most PS5 exclusives attempt.

The game is the debut project from Twin Swans, a newly formed independent studio. PlayStation's announcement notes the team's prior work includes The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Signalis — a resume that spans narrative-driven interactive fiction, episodic horror anthologies, one of the most acclaimed open-world RPGs of the last decade, and a cult-favorite survival-horror throwback. That mix shows up in how Hunter's Moon is being pitched: heavy on narrative branching and atmosphere, light on traditional combat.

Who is Twin Swans?

Twin Swans is a brand-new independent studio, and Hunter's Moon is its first announced project. PlayStation hasn't published a dedicated studio history page, but the announcement post credits the team behind the game with prior work on The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, the episodic horror anthology entry The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, the open-world RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and the survival-horror throwback Signalis. Those four credits span very different genres — surreal narrative comedy, linear branching horror, sprawling fantasy RPG, and tightly scoped retro survival horror — which suggests a team assembled specifically around strong writing and atmosphere rather than one studio's house style carrying over wholesale. Alicia Contestabile is credited as writer-director on the PlayStation Blog post and is the public face of the announcement, though Sony's post doesn't break down the full internal team or org chart beyond that credit.

Gameplay: stealth, evasion and eavesdropping instead of combat

Hunter's Moon doesn't appear to give Lilith a weapon. Per the official description, survival hinges on stealth and cunning rather than fighting back. You'll need to stay out of sight of the Witchfinder General and his allies as they search the village and surrounding countryside, timing movement and sticking to cover rather than confronting pursuers directly.

The signature mechanic is an eavesdropping system that PlayStation's blog post describes as "immersive-theatre-inspired." Listening in at windows around the village lets Lilith pick up warnings, counsel from sympathetic villagers, sacred items, or even folk songs — all of which can factor into surviving the night. It's a structure that rewards paying attention to environmental storytelling over reflexes, more in line with how an immersive-theatre production or an alternate-reality game doles out information than a typical stealth-action title.

PlayStation also highlights the scale of the voice work: Hunter's Moon features more than 100 fully voice-acted characters populating the village, each presumably with their own fragment of dialogue to overhear or interact with. Combined with what Sony describes as "handcrafted stylised" art grounded in historical realism, the game is clearly aiming for a dense, believable 17th-century setting rather than an abstract horror backdrop.

Price: still unannounced

As of this writing, neither Sony nor Twin Swans has published a retail price for Hunter's Moon. The PlayStation Store concept page for the game shows no price field at all — only a button to add the game to your wishlist, which is standard for titles that haven't opened pre-orders yet. The PlayStation Blog announcement likewise says nothing about cost, focusing entirely on the setting, premise and release window.

Given that Hunter's Moon is a single-player, story-driven game from a small independent studio rather than a blockbuster published by one of Sony's first-party studios, expect it to land somewhere in the broader indie-to-mid-budget range that's typical for PS5 story games of similar scope — but treat any number you see elsewhere online as a rumor until the PlayStation Store listing itself updates with a price and a pre-order button.

PS5 Pro Enhanced, and no other platforms — yet

Hunter's Moon is a PlayStation 5 console exclusive. The PlayStation Store listing specifically tags it as PS5 Pro Enhanced, meaning owners of Sony's more powerful mid-generation console should see upgraded visuals, better performance, or both compared to a base PS5 — though Sony hasn't detailed exactly what that enhancement covers (resolution target, frame rate, ray tracing, or some combination). Neither PlayStation nor Twin Swans has announced a PC, Xbox or PS4 version, and nothing in the official materials suggests one is planned, so if you don't own a PS5, there's currently no path to playing it.

The Store listing also confirms the game supports the DualSense wireless controller's vibration feature and lists 12 distinct accessibility features, though it doesn't break down what each one does. That's a meaningfully high number for an indie debut and suggests Twin Swans built accessibility options in from early development rather than bolting them on later.

Single-player only — no co-op, no multiplayer

If you were hoping to drag a friend into the village with you, that's not on the table. The PlayStation Store listing specifies Hunter's Moon as a one-player experience with offline play enabled, and there's no mention anywhere in the official materials of co-op, competitive multiplayer, or any always-online requirement. You can play through the entire night with no internet connection at all, which tracks with the game's focus on a single, personal, narrative-driven escape rather than a shared or competitive experience.

ESRB rating and content descriptors

The PlayStation Store lists Hunter's Moon with an ESRB rating of Teen, alongside three content descriptors: Mild Violence, Sexual Themes, and Use of Alcohol and Tobacco. None of those descriptors are unusual for a story set during a 17th-century witch panic, and the "Teen" rating puts it in a more accessible bracket than most survival-horror games, which often land in the Mature category thanks to graphic violence or gore. That's consistent with a game built around evasion and tension rather than combat or body horror.

Video: PlayStation · Hunter's Moon - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

Watch the announce trailer

PlayStation published the reveal alongside an official announce trailer on its YouTube channel, titled "Hunter's Moon - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games." It shows Lilith fleeing through moonlit woods and the village at night, glimpses of the Witchfinder General's pursuit, and quick cuts of the eavesdropping mechanic in action, all set against the folk-horror atmosphere Twin Swans has built the game around.

How Hunter's Moon fits into PS5's horror and exclusives lineup

Hunter's Moon arrives in a busy stretch for PS5 owners who follow release-date announcements closely. Capcom's survival-horror sequel, covered in our Resident Evil Requiem release date and platform breakdown, is aimed at a very different audience — gorier, combat-heavier, multi-platform — but it's a useful point of contrast for anyone trying to decide which horror game to prioritize this fall. On the console-exclusive side, readers comparing launch windows across platforms may also want our rundown of PEAK's PS5, Xbox and Switch 2 release date and price details, since Hunter's Moon's PS5-only status stands in sharp contrast to that game's cross-platform approach.

For readers tracking everything landing on PS5 before the end of the year, our Final Fantasy Resonance release date, platform and price guide covers another major title releasing in the same general window, albeit in a completely different genre. Hunter's Moon is a smaller, narrower bet by comparison — one console, one player, one night — but that focus is clearly the point.

It's also worth noting what Hunter's Moon isn't. It's not a live-service game, it's not getting a day-one season or battle pass, and based on everything Sony and Twin Swans have published so far, it's not built around replayable runs or procedurally generated content the way a lot of modern horror-adjacent indies are. The entire pitch is a single, scripted night that you can apparently finish and walk away from — closer in spirit to an interactive-fiction game or a piece of immersive theatre than to a long-tail live-service horror title.

What's next for Hunter's Moon

With a release date locked in and a wishlist page live on the PlayStation Store, the next milestones to watch for are a confirmed price and the opening of pre-orders, neither of which Sony or Twin Swans has announced yet. Given the October 25/26 launch is only days away as of this writing, expect that information — along with any pre-order bonuses, a possible digital deluxe edition, or additional gameplay footage — to surface from PlayStation's official channels in the final run-up to launch. We'll update this article if Sony or Twin Swans publishes pricing, a demo, or any platform changes before release.

In the meantime, the surest way to get notified the moment pricing goes live is to wishlist Hunter's Moon directly through its PlayStation Store listing, which will update automatically once pre-orders open.

Written byJonah Reyes

Jonah Reyes leads Pandromeda's gaming coverage: console and handheld hardware, release dates, pricing changes, patch notes and the business moves behind the biggest franchises. He sources every date and price from the platform holders and publishers themselves, and says plainly when something is still only a rumour.

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