September’s pile-up of release dates coming out of this year’s summer gaming events is officially claiming its first casualties, with games starting to move out of the month’s way rather than fight for air. Valor Mortis is one of them, as developer One More Level announced today that its first-person Napoleonic soulslike is sliding from September 24 to October 13. The original date had only been announced days earlier during the XBOX Games Showcase, where it would have landed on the same day as Control Resonant and Silent Hill: Townfall.
In a statement addressed to “Soldiers,” the studio admitted September has become absolutely stacked with promising games, noting that showcase dates get locked weeks in advance and that the team knew a collision was possible. The delay is meant to give Valor Mortis, and your wallet, some room to breathe.
The extra few weeks also buy time on the development side. One More Level says players have already helped fine-tune the game’s demo, which has received two patches addressing the most pressing issues, and the new date leaves more room to implement feedback before launch. Valor Mortis casts players as William, a resurrected soldier of Napoleon’s Grande Armée, fighting through a supernatural reimagining of 19th-century Europe with period weaponry and powers tied to the same corruption that brought him back. It comes from the Kraków studio that last shipped Ghostrunner 2 in 2023, trading cyberpunk parkour for muskets and plague.
Valor Mortis now arrives October 13 on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and PC, with the demo still available in the meantime. If the rest of the September logjam is any indication, it probably won’t be the last game to make a run for the exits.
