DERELIKT PC: Release Date, Demo, and System Requirements Explained

DERELIKT PC is not a remaster of a game you missed in 1999 — it is a new retro first-person shooter built to feel like one. That distinction matters because the calendar is about to force a decision: as of 2026-11-10, the official Steam listing for DERELIKT PC showed the game as not yet available, with a planned unlock date of November 13, 2026. Here is what the store pages, developer notes, and community threads actually confirm, separated from wishful thinking.

If you like survival horror that makes ammo feel like a budget line item, this is a release worth tracking closely. The pitch is unusually specific: a claustrophobic PS1-era sci-fi horror FPS set on a failing research station, sold on atmosphere rather than power fantasy. That specificity is also why the details below matter — the storefront facts, the demo scope, and the visual tech all shape what kind of game you are actually buying.

What DERELIKT PC Actually Is

Strip away the CRT filter and DERELIKT is an old-school survival horror shooter. The Xbox store listing describes it as drawing on the mood and structure of System Shock 2, Alien Resurrection, and Doom 3 — a lineage that implies scarce supplies, deliberate pacing, and enemies you hear long before you see them.

The setting is Von Neuman Outpost, a remote research station built into a derelict asteroid in Saturn's orbit. Its halls are dark, its systems are failing, and the surviving crew do not tell matching stories. Over a dozen NPCs remain aboard, each with their own problems and agendas; some are useful, some know more than they should, and some are simply doomed.

Combat leans on a wide arsenal of traditional and alien weapons, but the store text is explicit that every shot has a cost. Ammo, health, and inventory space all matter, and the developers frame the balance as "enough firepower to survive, but not enough to feel safe." Exploration, environmental puzzles, and unlockable routes through the station fill the space between fights.

• Developer: Visuwyg, with Hyperstrange
• Publisher: Hyperstrange
• Mode: Single player
• Rating: Teen, with descriptors for violence, blood, and use of tobacco
• Pitch in one line: a narrative retro FPS aimed at fans of claustrophobic PS1-era sci-fi horror

Dated Snapshot: Store Details and Launch Window

The clearest verified information about DERELIKT PC comes from two storefronts captured on the same day. The Steam page handles release timing and language support; the Xbox listing handles credits, mode, and platform features. Neither should be read as a live status report.

Table note: every row is a dated snapshot recorded on 2026-11-10, not a statement about present availability.

The October 21, 2026 announcement on the Steam hub framed the PC launch as simultaneous across Steam, GOG, and Epic, and promised a trailer featuring previously unseen retro CGI cutscenes. The same post addressed consoles directly: a console version is planned, but the team said it was too early to reveal that date; PlayStation Blog later announced PS5 for November 13, 2026, and Xbox Wire listed Xbox Series X|S for the same day.

An Xbox store listing for DERELIKT was live and captured on 2026-11-10, tagged as optimized for Xbox Series X|S with Xbox Play Anywhere, achievements, and cloud saves. It listed no release date in the captured content, though Xbox Wire's November 6 roundup placed DERELIKT on November 13. Notably, the "play with" field on that listing includes PC alongside Xbox Series X|S and handhelds — a Microsoft Store path that exists separately from the Steam, GOG, and Epic releases.

Buying advice for the launch window: no price appeared in the captured Steam listing, and community members were still asking about it. Treat pricing as something to confirm on the store page rather than assume, and use the wishlist notification if you want the unlock to reach you rather than relying on memory.

How the Team Rebuilt a 1999 Look for DERELIKT PC

A November 6 developer post on the Steam hub, written by creator and art director Phil, is the most detailed look at how DERELIKT PC earns its retro presentation. The starting point is technical honesty about the PlayStation: the hardware skipped floating point math and perspective-correct texture mapping, relying on cheaper affine mapping instead. When polygons grew large on screen, textures warped, stretched, and swam.

Rather than copy that artifact at maximum intensity, the team rebuilt the conditions that produced it. Phil notes that PS1 games could push a lot of triangles, with flat walls segmented into regular meter-sized tiles, which is part of why those worlds look blocky. Layered on top was dynamic subdivision: faces split into smaller triangles as the camera approached, so you could crawl through a vent without geometry visibly warping.

For DERELIKT, the team emulated the common approach where one triangle becomes four and four become sixteen, deliberately choosing that method over modern tessellation because the optimized result looked too clean. The characteristic "pop" when triangles subdivide is preserved, and Phil identifies it as the real source of the era's wobble.

Lighting was hand-painted across all static scenes using Blender's vertex painting tools, a process he describes as tedious in theory and genuinely enjoyable in practice. Crucially, you are not locked in: DERELIKT lets you toggle between crunchy, era-accurate low-resolution and a clean high-resolution mode, and texture warping and dithering can be switched off entirely. The stated goal is for the game to feel like a lost 1999 title recovered from an unmarked disc and ported to modern platforms in 2026.

Demo, Next Fest, and Community Reports

The first public demo went live in an October 8 post on the Steam hub, and the Steam page still listed a demo as available at the 2026-11-10 capture. Its scope is specific: three chapters of the full story, presented out of order, so the demo does not spoil the narrative sequence. Returning playtesters were told that some feedback had already been implemented without expanding the demo's size.

The demo also anchored the game's October Next Fest participation, and the team kept a feedback form open so players could report issues directly. If you are deciding whether the aesthetic works for you, that demo is the cheapest test available, and it is the same build the developers are gathering data from.

Community reports on the Steam hub, captured around the same date, sketch an early-adopter mood rather than a verdict. Players were hunting for the code to a second door, asking what the game will cost, requesting clarification on whether generative AI was used in development, and debating whether the textures look authentically rough or simply unfinished. One thread praised the project's resemblance to Alien Resurrection on PS1. Treat all of this as player experience and open questions, not confirmed answers — the developers have not published responses to those threads in the captured material.

System Requirements Listed for DERELIKT PC

The Steam page lists a Windows-only configuration for DERELIKT PC, split into minimum and recommended tiers. The operating system entries are straightforward; the processor, graphics, and sound card entries are not.

Table source: Steam store page system requirements section, captured 2026-11-10. Values are quoted exactly as displayed.

Those placeholder labels read as an in-joke rather than a spec sheet, so do not budget a build around them. The usable takeaway is that the minimum tier assumes Windows 10 and the recommended tier assumes Windows 11, and that the hardware figures printed on the page were not final at the snapshot date. For a hard number, watch the store page rather than third-party spec aggregators.

FAQ

When does DERELIKT PC release?

As of 2026-11-10, the Steam store page listed a planned release date of November 13, 2026 and showed the game as not yet available, with an unlock approximately two days out. The October 21, 2026 announcement named Steam, GOG, and Epic as the PC storefronts. Confirm the date on the store page before planning around it, since a store listing is a snapshot, not a guarantee.

Is there a DERELIKT PC demo?

Yes — as of the 2026-11-10 capture, the Steam page listed a demo as available. Per the October 8 announcement, it contains three chapters of the full story presented in non-sequential order, and it was the build used for the game's October Next Fest appearance and feedback collection.

Will DERELIKT come to consoles?

A console release is planned and dated: PlayStation Blog announced PS5 for November 13, 2026, and Xbox Wire listed Xbox Series X|S for November 13. The October 21 announcement had left the console date unannounced, and the Xbox store listing captured on 2026-11-10 showed Series X|S optimization and Play Anywhere without a date.

What do I need to run DERELIKT PC?

The listed minimum is Windows 10 and the recommended tier is Windows 11, with English interface, audio, and subtitle support. The processor, graphics, and sound card rows on the Steam page read as placeholder text, so treat those entries as unfinished and check the store page for the final hardware targets.

For the most reliable version of every claim above — release timing, demo availability, and spec details — read the official DERELIKT Steam store page directly.