Valor Mortis Development and Release History

Timeline

Valor Mortis went from an announcement to a released game in about fourteen months, after a development period the developer describes as longer than three years. The milestones below are drawn from the studio's own channels and announcements.

The playtest row is deliberately approximate. The developer's own wording is "one year ago" relative to launch, which is a description rather than a dated event, and this page does not convert it into a precise week.

Three years in development

The studio describes the project's scale in its own terms, and two statements are on the record. From the launch announcement:

"Valor Mortis is our studio's biggest game and we have poured our hearts and souls into it over the past 3 years."

And from a pinned launch message:

"We are launching the game we've poured our hearts into for over three years… It is OUR TAKE on soulslike genre!"

Two things in those quotes are worth separating. The duration — over three years — is a fact about the project. The claim to having a take on the genre is different: it is the developer framing the game as its own interpretation rather than as a member of an established formula, and using the studio's own phrase about itself rather than having a label applied from outside. That framing recurs in its own video explaining why it uses the word soulslike at all.

Playtest and demo

Valor Mortis was publicly playable well before release, in two separate stages, and the developer credits that feedback with changing the game.

"One year ago, we held an open Steam playtest and we shared a Demo this past June. Thanks to your feedback, we have improved the game dramatically in the past few months."

The demo's own history is more eventful than a single release. It appeared in June 2026 alongside the release date trailer, was announced as back for summer events on July 20 — implying a gap — and by August 10 the studio was reporting that more than 250,000 players had played it. A developer video on August 9 responded directly to feedback from it.

The practical consequence is that the released build is not the demo build. The developer says the game changed dramatically after the demo, so pre-release impressions describe a version that no longer exists. The demo status page covers where the demo stands now.

Release

Valor Mortis released on October 13, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, developed by One More Level — the studio behind Ghostrunner — and published by Lyrical Games.

What followed was notably quiet for a launch. No patch had been published in the first two days, and the only technical communication was the developer's Known Issues post on release day. In its launch announcement the studio also set out what comes next: a New Game+ mode "later this year", and a Major Story DLC in 2027. Both are covered on the roadmap page.

Voice cast

The cast was a visible part of the game's promotion rather than a credit buried at the end, and the developer's own videos name the performers.

Only roles the developer's own videos attach to a name are listed. A full cast list has not been published in a form this site could verify, so the table stays at two entries rather than padding out a credit roll.