Hull Rupture Release Date: November 4, 2026

The Confirmed Details

The date itself comes from Steam's own store listing, which carries Hull Rupture as coming soon with the release date November 4, 2026. That listing is the source worth trusting over aggregator sites, and nothing about the schedule has moved since the announcement. As of our verification on September 22, 2026, launch was 43 days out.

Who is making it: Konfa Games develops and tinyBuild publishes — the same studio and publisher combination behind Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator, which launched on September 29, 2022. Hull Rupture keeps that world's voice intact, from Despot AI to the phrase about treating puny humans as resources, which is a useful signal for anyone deciding whether the tone is for them.

What it is: a base-management tower-defense roguelite, tagged Action, Indie and Strategy on Steam, with single-player, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing support and store listings for Windows, macOS and Linux. The store page lists eleven supported languages including English, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Portuguese (Brazil). What it costs is not on the page yet — Steam shows no price for the game, and we are not going to invent one.

How the Release Date Was Announced

The reveal came with a dedicated Release Date Trailer in mid-September 2026, published around the tinyBuild Connect Showcase staged alongside Tokyo Game Show 2026. Rather than relying only on the developer's own channel, the trailer went out through publishing partners, which is how a small studio buys reach without a marketing budget.

Within seven days those uploads had accumulated close to 30,000 views — GameTrailers' copy of the trailer alone stood at 25,985 views and Indie Games Hub's at 29,024. For a niche strategy-roguelite, a date reveal that clears that bar in a week says the audience is at least awake, even if the wishlist number below tells the more sober story.

Wishlists and Momentum Before Launch

The window radar on SteamDB put Hull Rupture at 5,949 followers on September 22, 2026. Applying the widely used followers-to-wishlists multiplier of about 9.6 gives a wishlist proxy of roughly 57,000, which is the number to keep in your head when you are judging how big this launch is likely to be.

The benchmark bands are worth stating plainly, because they are the difference between hype and a business: launches that convert from a 20,000 to 30,000 wishlist base frequently fall over, while an 80,000-strong base almost never misses. Hull Rupture sits between the two. That is a normal place for an unproven new IP with a pedigree developer — not a runaway hit, not a dead one.

The second signal is who covered the demo. Aliensrock's demo video, framed as the ultimate spaceship strategy game, sits at 79,881 views, and Wanderbots' demo video, framed around a spaceship powered by human suffering, has 12,615. Both are strategy-facing channels, which is the audience that actually buys a wave-defense roguelite — a better sign than a general-purpose spike.

What Is Still Unconfirmed

• Price. Steam shows no price for Hull Rupture yet, and we will not publish a guess.
• The exact unlock time on November 4. Steam gives a date, not an hour, and no unlock schedule has been published.
• Whether demo progress carries into the full game. Nothing on either store page promises a save transfer.
• The names of the 3 ships, 6 modes and 4 modifiers. The store confirms the counts, not the names — we list only what has been published.
• Recommended PC specs. The recommended block repeats the 64-bit requirement and nothing else.
• Any post-launch roadmap, DLC or console versions. No console listing exists at the time of writing.

What To Do Between Now And November 4

Play the demo. It is free, it has been updated relative to launch interest, and it contains a tutorial plus a replayable standard mode that ends after 20 attack waves and a final boss. Time spent there converts directly into a better first hour on release day, because the module grid and the breach warnings stop being new.

Then check whether your machine actually runs it — the minimum is modest (2 GB of storage and a GTX 670-class card) but the Windows floor is version 21H1, which is the requirement that catches older setups. Both steps are covered on this site: the requirements page carries the full Windows, Mac and Linux minimums, and the demo guide explains what the preview does and does not include.