Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days leaves Early Access in March 2027 and lands on five platforms at once

PikPok has announced that Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days is leaving Early Access and launching its 1.0 release in March 2027. And it is going wide: Steam, Epic Games Store, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and GeForce NOW, all on the same day.

The Wellington studio marked the news with a new gameplay trailer showing off the expanded systems and, above all, the kind of decisions the full game will ask of you. If you are tracking what else is coming, our release guide has a queue lined up.

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days — 1.0 announcement trailer

Two years in Early Access

Here is the number that gives the announcement its context, the game entered Early Access on 9 April 2025 promising «at least one year of active development». By the time it ships in March 2027 that will be almost two. Double what was promised.

Which, in most cases, would be a warning sign. Here it seems to have worked. My bet is that the extra year is exactly what separates this one from the 50 Early Access games that quietly die every year. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days sits at 92 % positive across 2,885 Steam reviews, with recent ones holding at 91 %. This is not an Early Access title that faded with time, it is one that grew.

It can be played right now for €19.99 with a 20 % discount, down from €24.99, which means buying it today in Early Access is cheaper than waiting for version 1.0 and paying full price 7 months from now.

Your call: play it whole, or play it cheap.

What it actually is, if it is not on your radar

Picture This War of Mine with zombies and a side-on camera. You run a group of survivors through 1980s Walton City, Texas: you head out for resources, come back to the shelter, expand it, and decide who eats, who sleeps and who gets left behind.

The system that sets it apart is that survivors are not health bars with names. They have physical and psychological needs, they fall ill, they pick up skills like Medic, and they start romances with each other. When one of them breaks, the whole group breaks.

But the real shape of the thing is in the goal: not to endure for the sake of enduring, but to escape the city. There are multiple endings and the moral choices genuinely bite, because the game neither punishes you for being cruel nor rewards you for being decent: it simply hands out consequences and lets you live with them.

Though we reckon surviving means little if you end up with nobody left to tell about it.

What sits behind the announcement

«Announcing the launch of Version 1.0 marks a major milestone for the team», said Mario Wynands, CEO at PikPok, in the release. The Early Access community, he says, drove the game «into an experience even better than what we originally envisioned».

There is one detail here worth noting, PikPok has spent years making mobile games (the original Into the Dead series, Rival Stars) and this simultaneous jump to five platforms is its most ambitious move yet.

March 2027 is a long way off, so the question is not whether it arrives but what else goes in. If uncomfortable survival is your thing, our best zombie games list will keep you busy.