Derelikt PS5 Release Date Set for November 13 With a 10% Pre-Order Discount

Derelikt PS5 release date confirmed for November 13

The Derelikt PS5 release date is November 13, 2026. Creator and art director Philipp Jensen announced the date on PlayStation.Blog on November 2, alongside a release date trailer, and confirmed that PS5 pre-orders are open now with a 10% discount. The Windows version launches the same day on Steam, so this is a PS5 and PC launch, not a console exclusive.

Derelikt is a solo project. Jensen develops under the studio name Visuwyg, and publisher Hyperstrange is bringing the game to console. It has been in development in some form since late 2021, which makes the November date the end of a long, winding road for a game built to look like it fell out of 1999.

A station, a missing team, and a drone nobody trusts

Derelikt takes place aboard the Von Neumann Outpost, a station grafted onto an anomalous asteroid discovered in Saturn's orbit. You arrive as an outside contractor sent to find Excavation Team Delta, who went missing on the derelict surface. What you find turns bad fast: the halls are dark, the systems are failing, and the survivors you meet are not telling the same story.

Jensen puts the distrust front and center. A mysterious drone is driving the station's crew closer to breaking point, and the game's dozen-plus characters each carry their own secrets and agendas. Jensen's own summary is blunt: some are useful, some are dangerous, some are doomed, and most are all three at once. That is a strong hook for a horror game, because it means the threat is not just what lurks in the vents. It is also who you decide to believe.

The arsenal runs from traditional weapons to prototype gear and alien weapons as you progress, and the gunplay is described as fast. But Jensen is clear that shooting is only part of the tension. Resource management, exploration, dialogue, and old-school puzzle solving are core to the experience, not side dishes.

The retro look is built, not filtered

Plenty of games slap a CRT filter over modern graphics and call it retro. Derelikt goes the other way. It uses 100% hand-painted textures and vertex colour lighting, and it deliberately implements affine texture warping, then mitigates it by dynamically subdividing geometry, exactly the way the best late-era PlayStation games did. Retro FMV CGI cutscenes round out the effect.

The goal, in Jensen's words, was to make it appear as if the team found Derelikt on a CD-R in a dusty, long-abandoned storage unit of a defunct late-90s developer and simply ported it to modern platforms. That is a fun pitch, but the important part is the follow-up: Jensen insists retro does not have to mean crude. Effects can be toggled on or off to suit your taste, and the design underneath is modern, with the rough edges kept as a choice rather than a limitation.

If you like this kind of period horror, our Mouthwashing console guide covers another tense, contained nightmare, and our Stygian beginner guide is a good primer for a game where sanity is a resource. For a recent horror verdict, see our ANOMALITH review.

Should you pre-order?

The 10% discount is confirmed for PS5 pre-orders. No Australian price had been published at the time of the announcement, and the Steam price was also unconfirmed, so check your local store before committing. The discount is a small nudge, not a reason to buy blind.

Timing matters here. November is crowded, and Derelikt lands on November 13 in a window packed with bigger releases, including Warhammer Survivors on November 10. A solo-developed horror game lives or dies on word of mouth in its first week, so if the premise grabs you, the honest move is to wishlist it now and watch the launch reaction. If the first player reports praise the atmosphere and the puzzle design, the pre-order discount is a bonus. If they flag jank, you have lost nothing by waiting.

Either way, Derelikt is one of the more interesting small releases of the month: a one-person homage to an era most developers only imitate, built with the techniques of that era rather than a filter over the top of it. November 13 will tell whether the gamble pays off.