Phantom Blade Zero is available on PlayStation 5 and PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store. For PC buyers, the US Steam listing shows the base game at $59.99 and the UK listing at £49.99 as of October 31. S-GAME’s official site marks the game available now following its announced October 29 release.

The martial-arts action RPG follows Soul, a hunted warrior with sixty-six days left to live, in a world combining wuxia and dark fantasy. With the game now released, a practical choice is which version to buy and whether a PC meets the published settings targets. Those targets describe the developer’s specifications, rather than performance measured by this publication.

PC minimum: Corei7-8700K or Ryzen53600,GTX16606GB or RX5500XT8GB,1080p30fps. Recommended: Corei5-10600K or Ryzen55600X,RTX3060Ti8GB or RX6700XT12GB,1440p60fps. Both16GBRAM,SSD145GB,upscaling enabled.
Minimum and recommended PC targets from S-GAME and Steam, both with upscaling enabled. Hardware targets are not an independent performance test.

Full game, Deluxe edition or upgrade

The official website links directly to the PS5, Steam and Epic storefronts. On Steam, the Digital Deluxe Edition is $69.99 in the US and £59.99 in the UK, alongside the base editions above. These are separately checked Steam-region display prices, not confirmed prices for every platform or a cross-currency value comparison.

The Deluxe Upgrade is listed separately at $10.00 or £10.00 and does not include the base game. Its listed contents are two outfits, a digital artbook and soundtrack, which are also included in the full Digital Deluxe Edition. A new buyer needs a full-game edition; an existing standard-edition owner can assess the upgrade without buying the base game again.

Two PC targets with upscaling

The minimum PC specification lists Windows 10/11 64-bit, DirectX 12, 16 GB RAM and an Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600. Graphics requirements are a GeForce GTX 1660 with 6 GB or Radeon RX 5500 XT with 8 GB. The published target is 1080p at 30 fps with upscaling enabled, and SSD installation is required.

The recommended tier keeps 16 GB RAM but lists a Core i5-10600K or Ryzen 5 5600X and an RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB or RX 6700 XT 12 GB. Its target is 1440p at 60 fps with upscaling enabled. S-GAME separately lists RTX 5060 and RTX 5080 tiers for ray tracing and path tracing, so the ordinary recommended tier does not promise those effects at the same target.

Storage and the launch update

Steam lists 145 GB of available storage, with the SSD requirement repeated for both tiers. In the launch letter shown in Steam’s announcements, S-GAME says preloaded copies should receive an approximately 5 GB day-one update before play, while new downloads include the latest version. That update is described as improving ray/path-tracing performance and fixing bugs; the claim is the developer’s, not an independent benchmark.

The buying decision therefore has two parts: choose a storefront and full-game edition, then match the PC to the intended settings tier. The stated 16 GB memory requirement alone does not establish readiness because graphics, storage and upscaling conditions also apply. For a preloaded copy, installing the launch update completes the setup step the developer identifies before starting.

Sources & context

Prices are the separately observed US/UK Steam display prices on October 31. Requirements and patch effects are developer claims, not our benchmarks or a checkout test.

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